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The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Air Quality Network+ (SAQN+) is a multidisciplinary community of experts, researchers, policy makers and businesses aiming to make the best use of STFC research, capabilities and facilities to address air quality challenges.
This project investigates how agricultural practices and green-waste recycling create environmental hotspots of resistance, using field and lab studies, spatially explicit Bayesian models, and systems network analysis to predict, understand, and mitigate fungal resistance within a One Health framework.
Exposure to air pollution is responsible for over 7 million premature deaths per year. Considering current World Health Organisation guideline limits, 99% of the world’s population are exposed to air that is damaging to their health. This project responds to this challenge by focusing on oxidative potential (OP).
Our vision is to comprehensively understand the UK threat of PFAS in water and their relative impacts on aquatic wildlife now and in the future.
We will evaluate the impact of a large scale traffic emission reduction intervention, the Ultra Low Emission Zone. The ULEZ is a non-NHS intervention. Its goal is to improve population health. It is the major component of London’s Air Quality Improvement Programme.
The London Hub for Urban Health, Sustainability and Equity brings together two London-coordinated Our Planet Our Health urban health projects to create the world’s foremost transdisciplinary research hub on the health of most of the world’s population.
Microscopic plastic debris, known as microplastics, are a complex class of particulate pollutants. They originate from degraded plastic litter and human activity, such as washing synthetic clothes or driving with synthetic tyres, and are ubiquitous across habitats worldwide
Reducing carbon emissions has the potential to reduce air pollution levels with associated health and economic benefits to the UK population. These benefits, balanced against the costs, might provide the justification needed to increase the acceptance amongst policy makers and the public to achieve both climate change and air pollution targets.
Poor air quality is a public health crisis, with approximately 40,000 deaths per year attributable to outdoor air pollution and costing the UK £20 billion per year in illness, deaths, health service and business costs. Apex is an air pollution exposure model to integrate protection of vulnerable groups into the UK Clean Air Programme.
A multidisciplinary research activity, combining state-of-the-science atmospheric observations, laboratory studies,new data processing tools and integrated scientific synthesis to deliver new understanding of urban air pollution.
Component-Specific Air Pollutant Drivers of Disease risk in early to midlife: a pathway approach (DREaM)
The ACACIA study is run by a group of researchers based across Africa and the UK who are working together to understand and improve the health of young people with asthma in Africa. Numbers of young people with asthma have been rising dramatically in many African countries over the last two decades, especially in urban areas.
The built environment can play a key role in influencing health behaviours and prevention of obesity and non-communicable diseases, it is important to investigate the potential impact of the built environment on cognitive health in older people and further consider other related environmental characteristics.
Atmospheric particulate pollution has been linked to a broad spectrum of adverse health effects including respiratory problems, cardiovascular diseases, cancer and dementia.
Air pollution is the greatest environmental threat to health in the UK.
PRECISE-DYAD will expand and extend the PRECISE study (PREgnancy Care Integrating translational Science, Everywhere) of deeply-phenotyped maternal-fetal/new-born dyads to provide insights into the life course of health and disease.
The impact of maternal exposure to air pollution on placental function and foetal brain development using modelling and personalised monitoring.
The West London Healthy Home and Environment Study (WellHome) is a collaborative effort between three experienced teams from the MRC Centre for Environment and Health at Imperial College London, the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research at Queen Mary University of London and the Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations at Cardiff University.
This study will investigate the extent marginalised communities, such as ethnic minorities and those from low socioeconomic backgrounds, perceive a relationship between indoor/outdoor air pollution and its associated adverse health effects and how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted this relationship.
The Breathe London network was relaunched in early 2021. The Mayor of London’s funding will be used to install and manage the initial network of 130 sensor nodes, establish robust QA/QC and correction procedures, and create the enhanced LAQN web pages and tools.
Microplastics (MP) are ubiquitous environmental contaminants. Whilst traditionally recognised as a marine issue, evidence is growing to reveal a network of complex environmental MP pathways, resulting in the contamination of water, food, air and dust and ultimately, human exposure via ingestion and/or inhalation.
In January 2019 COMEAP published a report into the potential for adverse health effects from travel on London Underground.
Over the last decade our understanding of the impact of air pollution on both short- and long-term population health has advanced considerably, with increased appreciation of impacts below current regulatory limits and beyond the cardiopulmonary systems, particularly upon the brain in relation to poor mental health and dementia risk. However, there are still major gaps in our understanding of the most harmful components within the air we breathe and the mechanisms by which they induce adverse effects.
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