Quantifying the impact of air pollution on health workshop held on 12th September 2014
Published: 2 April 2014
A workshop entitled "Quantifying the impact of air pollution on health" was held on 12th September 2014 at the University of Glasgow, which brought together academics, policymakers and other interested parties to discuss this important public health issue. The workshop was supported by the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Environmental Statistics Section (ESS) and the RSS Glasgow local group.
The university of Glasgow played host to the second workshop of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council funded project entitled “A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution”, which is run jointly by Prof Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton) and Dr Duncan Lee (University of Glasgow). The workshop was held on 12th September 2014, and was supported by the Environmental Statistics section and the Glasgow local group of the Royal Statistical Society. The workshop attracted an audience of around 65 participants from across industry, government and academia, and had stimulating debate throughout.
The first half of the workshop contained talks about the project and its progress. The first was from Rachel McInnes from the UK Met Office, who discussed the Met Office air quality model and the use of it to predict air quality in the future. The second talk was from Sujit Sahu from the University of Southampton, who discussed how pollution concentrations could be predicted by using spatio-temporal statistical methodology and fusing monitoring and modelled pollution data. The final talk in the first half was from Duncan Lee from the University of Glasgow, who discussed the statistical problems encountered when estimating the health effects of air pollution and how those problems could be overcome.
The second half of the workshop contained speakers with a range of air pollution and health interests, including Stefan Reis, from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. Stefan spoke about the integration of modelled and personal monitoring pollution data. The second talk was given jointly by Iain Beverland and Jonathan Gillespie from the University of Strathclyde, focusing on the cohort studies and land-use regression models to estimate air pollution exposure. The final talk was given by Colin Ramsay from Health Protection Scotland, who discussed the epidemiological issues and work on estimating the health impact of air pollution.
The talks are given below:
Rachel McInnes - workshop2rachel
Sujit Sahu - workshop2sujit
Duncan Lee - workshop2duncan
Stefan Reis - workshop2stefan
Iain Beverland - workshop2iain
Jonathan Gillespie - workshop2jonathan
First published: 2 April 2014