Opening workshop entitled “Investigating the effect of air quality on health” in April 2013
Published: 31 March 2014
The university of Southampton played host to the first workshop of the EPSRC funded project entitled “A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution”.
The university of Southampton played host to the first workshop of the EPSRC funded project entitled “A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution” (refs: EP/J017485/1 and EP/J017442/1), which is run jointly by Prof Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton) and Dr Duncan Lee (University of Glasgow). The workshop was held on 15th April 2013, and was supported by the Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society. The workshop was part of the 10th year anniversary celebrations of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute S3RI, and attracted an audience of around 30 participants.
The talks in the morning were from academics working in this area, and the first of these was given jointly by Prof Sahu and Dr Lee who introduced the goals of the project. The rest of the morning saw talks from Dr Catheryn Tonne about the health impact of traffic related air pollution, and Prof Alan Gelfand about the consequences of spatial modeling of such data The afternoon was dedicated to non-academic industry partners, and the talks were given by Dr Brian Miller (Institute of Occupational Medicine and on the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution) on health impact assessment, Dr Stuart Sneddon (Ricardo-AEA) on air quality monitoring, and Dr Paul Agnew (Met Office) on air quality modeling. The full program of the meeting is here:
Morning session
- A rigorous statistical framework for estimating the long-term health effects of air pollution, by Duncan Lee (University of Glasgow) and Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton).
- Traffic related air pollution and health in London, by Catheryn Tonne, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- Space is the place: An overview of spatial modelling, by Alan Gelfand, Duke University, Durham, USA.
Afternoon session
- Health impact assessment of long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: methodological, spatial and practical considerations in using study results, Brian Miller, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh.
- Modelling UK air quality, Paul Agnew, Met Office.
- Air quality monitoring, trends and indicators for Scotland, Stuart Sneddon, AEA Technology, UK.
First published: 31 March 2014