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Abstract
There is a long and deep history of research into the health effects of exposure to air pollution in developing countries, especially in the United Kingdom, North America, and continental Europe. That evidence has prompted extensive action to improve air quality (albeit with some work still left to do). In recent years however, with the rapid industrialization of developing countries especially in Asia, the issue of the local impacts of health effects from air pollution has risen to the fore in new and challenging ways.
The recent Global Burden of Disease (GBD) estimates some 3 million premature deaths attributable to outdoor air pollution, fully two-thirds of which occur in the developing countries of Asia. The GBD estimates an even larger burden in these countries from household air pollution.
This presentation will review the scientific basis and challenges for estimating the air pollution burden in these developing countries (especially China and India), the recent evidence from local studies, the initial and quite varied responses in the two countries, and the needs for additional science looking ahead.
Biography
Dan Greenbaum joined the Health Effects Institute as its President and Chief Executive Officer on March 1, 1994. In that role, Greenbaum leads HEI’s efforts, supported jointly by US EPA and industry, with additional funding from US DOE, Federal Highway Administration, US AID, the Asian Development Bank, and foundations, to provide public and private decision makers – in the US, Asia, Europe, and Latin America – with high quality, impartial, relevant and credible science about the health effects of air pollution to inform air quality decisions in the developed and developing world.
Greenbaum has been a member of the U.S. National Research Council Board of Environmental Studies and Toxicology and vice chair of its Committee for Air Quality Management in the United States. He recently served on the NRC Committee on The Hidden Costs of Energy and their Committee on Science for EPA’s Future. Greenbaum also chaired the EPA Blue Ribbon Panel on Oxygenates in Gasoline and EPA’s Clean Diesel Independent Review
Panel, which reviewed technology progress in implementing the 2007 Highway Diesel Rule. In May 2010, Greenbaum received the Thomas W. Zosel Outstanding Individual Achievement Award from the U.S. EPA for his contributions to advancing clean air.
Greenbaum serves as well as the Chair of the Board of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), a non-profit organization providing technical analysis and support to the agencies involved in seeking clean vehicles worldwide. Greenbaum has over three decades of governmental and non-governmental experience in environmental health. Just prior to coming to HEI, he served as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection from 1988 to 1994, where he was responsible for the Commonwealth’s response to the Clean Air Act, as well as its award-winning efforts on pollution prevention, water pollution and solid and hazardous waste. Greenbaum holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from MIT in City Planning.