🌍 Dr Suzanne Bartington (Dr Bartington) shared insights at the Innovation Alliance for the West Midlands event on Air Quality 🫁.

Key takeaways:
🔍 Effective public health strategies are crucial for reducing air pollutants.
📊 But, it's even more vital to assess the real impacts of these interventions.

We are recruiting! Seeking a social science researcher for our WMNetZero study exploring health co-benefits of regional climate mitigation policies

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Join the UKCleanAir team and wider #cleanair community for the 2024 Clean Air Conference held Uni of Birmingham 2-3 October. Registration and abstract submission now open! HEICCAM Future Urban Ventilation Network TAPAS CleanAir4V BioAirNet

New podcast by Science for the Anthropocene - 'Learning to Fly' series David Tyfield 田大卫 Lancaster Environment Centre Episode 17 - Air Quality with myself & Gary Fuller 🎧🎙️podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/david…

Cycling infrastructure: from vision to delivery. Do we dare hope that the newly published Cycle Infrastructure Design will ensure the blancmange remains perfect through the whole process? assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

I'd like to share something innovative Oxfordshire is doing on 20mph because I realised on Sat that many other councils hadn't heard of it. The County is allowing local communities to apply for their own 20mph. So far, 270 of 310 (87%) have done so. (1/5)
heraldseries.co.uk/news/23857903.…

Terrifying finding from this new study - every 10 cm increase in a vehicle's front-end height causes a 22% increase in pedestrian-fatality risk.
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Super to meet the CLEETS Global Center team today! Plenty of research ahead to inform road transport decarbonisation in the West Midlands, South Wales and Great Lakes USA 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇺🇸

Thanks to Guardian Environment Gary Fuller for highlighting our work on air quality and asthma in Oxford. Dr Bartington Engineering Science, Oxford

This year ⁦World Health Organization (WHO)⁩ will have its second conference on Air Pollution in Accra in Ghana. Speaking to friends and family in the past year, they have told me the burning of waste is a terrible problem (from secondhand clothes). Recycling is also a concern. bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

Asthma patients in Oxford had fewer hospital stays during 2020 compared to the previous 5-year average largely due to reductions in air pollution, study suggests - Dr Bartington Dr Bartington & Ajit Singh, from Institute of Applied Health Research & Prof Pope from College of Life and Environmental Sciences. birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/lock…