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WHO Global Air Pollution and Health – Technical Advisory Group (GAPH‐TAG)
GAPH‐TAG members biography
2021‐2023
AGUDELO‐CASTANEDA Dayana
Dayana Agudelo‐Castañeda received her PhD in Remote
Sensing in 2014 from the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil. She is a Full Professor at the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineer of the
Universidad del Norte, Colombia. Her research
experience is in air quality, i.e. low‐cost sensors, passive
sampling of NO2, bioaerosols, LUR, airborne particles
modeling, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated
with airborne particles and the size distribution of
airborne particles. She has presented several papers in
international conferences and published in peer‐
reviewed ISI‐SCOPUS journals. Currently is undertaking
research projects in air quality and health using land use regression models in 5 cities in
Colombia for NO2 and PM2.5 pollutants. Last year she led the organization of the greatest Air
Quality Congress in Colombia. Additional projects include use and calibration of low‐cost
sensors, PAH associated to PM2.5 and cytotoxic effects. She worked in bioaerosol monitoring
in ICU´s and landfills. As a research assistant (doctoral level) in the Federal University of Rio
Grande do Sul, Brazil she worked in different projects of the research line in Atmospheric
Sciences of the Remote Sensing Research Center and Meteorology jointly with the State
Environmental Agency (FEPAM). The research included these themes: air quality, airborne
particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons associated with airborne particles, the
size distribution of airborne particles and analysis of particulate matter in thermal infrared
spectra, ozone, nitrogen oxides, temporal series analysis, receptor models. Her research PhD
work demanded to manage a small team of mentored undergraduate students and graduate
students (Msc students) during the 4 years.
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AL‐HEMOUD Ali
Dr. Ali M. Al‐Hemoud is a research scientist at the Kuwait
Institute for Scientific Research in the Environment and Life
Sciences Research Center. He is a Certified Industrial
Hygienist (CIH) by the American Board of Industrial
Hygiene (ABIH ‐ the Board for Global EHS Credentialing) and
also a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) by the Board of
Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP). He earned his degrees
from the University of Cincinnati (PhD), Cleveland State
University (MS), and University of Pittsburgh (BS), all from
USA in Industrial Engineering. His Research interests are in
the areas of environmental health, occupational health, and public health. He has multiple
practical experiences in many areas including ambient and indoor air pollution, sand and dust
storms, chemical toxicity, and health impact. He has over 50 published articles in high impact
journals.
Dr. Ali M. Al‐Hemoud is currently a principal investigator (PI) in two projects: (1) Improved
Resilience to Transboundary Sand and Dust Storms between the Republic of Iraq and the State
of Kuwait" (US $14 million) funded by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAD)
and in cooperation with United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN‐Habitat), and (2)
Development of an Air Quality Management System to Support Decision Making in Kuwait (US
$10 million) funded by Kuwait Environment Public Authority and in Cooperation with Harvard
University.
ALMEDIA‐SILVA Marina
Marina, Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences by TUDelft, Delft, The Netherlands, is currently Associate Professor in Lisbon School of Health Technology (ESTeSL), Lisbon, Portugal and researcher in two Portuguese Research Centers: Health and Technology and Research Center (H&TRC) and Center for Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (C2TN). Since 2010, Almeida‐Silva has participated in 10 national and international research projects in diverse topics, such as aerosol characterization, air quality assessment, human exposure to air pollutants, air quality monitoring, sustainable mobility, low carbon economy, neutron activation analysis, nuclear techniques, among others. Moreover, all these collaborations potentiated the possibility to participate in
European networks and platforms, such as FAIRMODE and the Cost Actions COLOSSAL and SHELDON. M. Almeida‐Silva published 2 book chapters and 32 scientific articles (WoS), 11 as first author. She also published 5 scientific articles (no‐WoS), 31 publications in international proceedings books with ISBN, more than 50 communication in national and international conferences. Almeida‐Silva has a h‐index 15.
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AMEGAH Kofi
I am a Senior Lecturer of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at
the University of Cape Coast, Ghana with expertise in air
pollution and nutritional exposure assessment, and
quantification of the effects of these exposures for
maternal, perinatal and cardiovascular health through use
of robust data science and statistical modeling techniques.
I lead a public health research group at the Department of
Biomedical Sciences with our work focused on the
interface of nutritional and environmental determinants of
adverse health outcomes in locations of Ghana using modern and robust epidemiological
research designs and methods. I lead the Ghana Urban Air Quality Project (GHAir) which focuses
on deploying low cost air quality sensors interspersed with reference grade monitors in urban
areas of Ghana to provide high spatio‐temporal air pollution data to bridge the air quality data
gaps and for epidemiologic research. I also focus on interrogating nutrition and air pollution
policy issues in Sub‐Saharan Africa with my work in this area gaining a lot of media attention
and influencing public health policies in the region and beyond. In recent times, my group has
focused on molecular characterization of air pollution exposures to help understand the
biological mechanisms mediating air pollution exposure health effects among vulnerable
populations such as street traders as well as the ameliorating role of nutrition (vitamin D
specifically) in the health effects of air pollution exposure. I am a member of the International
Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and Nutrition Society UK, founding member of
the AfriqAir Network, and collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) studies. I
participated in the WHO expert meetings of the Global Platform on Air Quality and Health. I am
a member of the Modelling Coordination Group of the Africa Integrated Assessment of Air
Pollution and Climate Change coordinated by the Stockholm Environment Institute and Climate
and Clean Air Coalition.
ANDERSEN Zorana Jovanovic
Zorana Jovanovic Andersen is a Professor in
Environmental Epidemiology at the Department of
Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and Chair of
the European Respiratory Society Environment and
Health Committee. Her main research areas include
health effects of long‐term exposures to air pollution,
where she is leading several projects on with a range
of different diseases, including cardiovascular and
metabolic disease, chronic and infectious respiratory
disease, cancer, and dementia. She has worked with
the Danish Nurse Cohort and Nationwide Danish
Administrative cohort of all Danish citizens, as well as with the large European projects
ELAPSE (European Low‐Level Air Pollution: A Study in Europe). Her other areas of
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research include health effects of road traffic noise, environmental exposures and aging,
interaction between air pollution and physical activity, health effects of ultrafine particles
based on Google Air View data in Copenhagen, air pollution and COVID‐19, capacity building
in air pollution in environmental epidemiology in Serbia and Western Balkans, among others.
Prof. Andersen is passionate about advocacy on clean air and translation of knowledge from
research on health effects of air pollution to policy makers and local, national, European and
global level, as an active member of the Expert group on Air Pollution in Copenhagen
Municipality, Danish Council for Disease Prevention, Policy Committee of the International
Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and International Network on Policy in
Epidemiology.
ANENBERG Susan
Susan Anenberg is an Associate Professor of Environmental and
Occupational Health and of Global Health at the George
Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
Dr. Anenberg studies the health implications of air pollution and
climate change, from local to global scales. Dr. Anenberg has
been a Co‐Founder and Partner at Environmental Health
Analytics, LLC, the Deputy Managing Director for
Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an
environmental scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, and a senior advisor for clean cookstove initiatives at
the U.S. State Department. Her research has been published in
top academic journals such as Science, Nature, and Lancet
Planetary Health. She has also led or contributed to many science‐policy reports on air
quality and climate change published by U.S. EPA, World Bank, World Health Organization,
United Nations Environment Programme, and others.
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APTE Joshua
Joshua Apte is an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley,
jointly appointed in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering and in the School of Public
Health. Dr. Apte's research focuses on the intersection
of air quality, sustainability, and environmental justice,
with an emphasis on the development of new methods
for quantifying air pollution exposures. His group uses
field measurements, air quality models, and satellite
remote sensing to quantify air pollutant emissions and
concentrations, and their resulting spatial patterns,
human exposures, and public health consequences in US
communities and around the world. Before coming to
UC Berkeley, he was previously on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, the ITRI‐
Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a Fulbright‐
Nehru Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He holds MS and PhD degrees from
the Energy and Resource Group at UC Berkeley and a ScB in Environmental Science from Brown
University.
ARTAXO Paulo
Prof. Paulo Artaxo made his undergraduate
studies in Physics at the University of São Paulo
and got his Ph.D. in Environmental Physics at
USP in 1985. At his Pos Doc, he worked at the
University of Antwerp, Belgium, University of
Lund and Stockholm, Sweden, NASA Goddard
and at the University of Harvard. Since 1995, he
is one of the leaders of the LBA (The Large‐Scale
Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in
Amazonia) experiment. He coordinated several
large international experiments such as ABLE‐2A and 2B, TRACE‐A, SCAR‐B, SMOCC, CLAIRE 98,
CLAIRE2001, EUSTACH, AMAZE, GoAmazon2014/15 among many others. He has a strong
international role in fostering scientific growth in developing countries, being a member of the
scientific steering committees of several IGBP core projects such as IGAC, iLEAPS, BIBEX, DEBITS,
and was General Secretary of the CACGP. He was a member of the IPCC group that analyzed
the global effects of aviation on climate and also the IPCC geoengineering task force. He was
director of the global change program of the Latin American CYTED Institute from 2004 to 2007.
He was a lead author of the IPCC Working Group 1 for AR4 (Chapter 2 ‐ Radiative forcing), AR5
(Chapter 7 – Aerosols and clouds), and is working on AR6 (Chapter 6). He is also working on the
IPCC SRCCL – Special Report on Climate Change and Land. He serves at the UNEP Science
Advisory Panel for GEO‐6. Paulo Artaxo have published more than 440 scientific papers and
presented more than 1200 scientific papers in international conferences. He published 27
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papers in Science and Nature family of journals. He is one of the most cited Brazilian scientists
with 30,400 scientific citations in the ISI Web of Sciences, with an “H‐index” of 85. He has 62,384
citations on the Google Scholar with an H index of 109. He was the advisor of 50 M.Sc. and PhD
students, and helped to organize more than 50 international scientific conferences. Among his
honors, Prof. Artaxo was elected member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2005 and
member of TWAS (World Academy of Sciences) in 2010. In 2004, the Brazilian Senate awarded
him a special prize in recognition of his role in the contribution to the study of the effects of
tropical aerosol particles on the hydrological cycle in Amazonia. In 2006, he was elected a fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In 2007, he was honored
with the TWAS Earth Science Prize. In 2009 he was awarded with the title of Doctor of
Philosophy Honoris Causa of the University of Stockholm, Sweden. In 2010 he received the
Fissan‐Pui‐TSI award for his work on international scientific cooperation. He received in 2010
the Ordem do Mérito Científico Nacional. In 2016 received the "Premio Almirante Álvaro
Alberto" from MCTI, the most prestigious scientific prize in Brazil. He received the Clarivate
prize of “Most Influential researcher, in 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
ATUYAMBE Lynn
Dr. Atuyambe is an Assoc. Professor in the
Department of Community Health and
Behavioral Sciences at the Makerere University
School of Public Health, College of Health
Sciences. He Received his Ph.D. in Public
Health Sciences (International Health) from
Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden in
2009. He has over 20 years of experience in
research and training. He is the country local
Principal Investigator at Makerere University
GeoHealth Hub (https://geohealth‐hub.org). He is the coordinator for the course Advanced
Qualitative Research Methods for Health Sciences, health promotion health education and
behavioral change communication, and Adolescent Sexual and reproductive Health. Besides,
he has participated in both qualitative and quantitative research projects in various capacities
over the years. He is a trainer in Qualitative research methods, data collection techniques and
analysis. He led the Situation Analysis and Needs Assessment for Uganda: Air Pollution,
Occupational Safety and Health, and Climate Change (SANA) pilot study
(http://geohealthhub.org/wp/wp‐content/uploads/2015/08/FINAL‐UGANDA‐SANA.pdf). Dr.
Atuyambe has over to 90 publications in peer‐reviewed journals.
BARRATT Benjamin
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Dr Ben Barratt is a Reader in Environmental Exposures & Public Health and Deputy Director of the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London, UK. His early research utilised a foundation in measurement techniques and data handling to develop analysis methods to characterise sources, trends and behaviour in urban air pollution. He specialised in the evaluation of technological or policy driven initiatives to improve air quality, including the London Congestion Charging Scheme and Low Emission Zone, the outputs of which have been used as evidence for future national and international schemes. The aim of more recent research is to improve the resolution of
environmental exposure assessments for panel, cohort and large‐scale population studies. This is linked to the development of tools to allow the public to make informed choices to reduce their own exposure to indoor and outdoor air pollution. His research is often in collaboration with international multidisciplinary teams ranging from toxicology and population health through to behavioural science and policy development. Much of the focus of his research team’s work is on global air quality, primarily in China and Sub‐Saharan Africa.
BAUMGARTNER Jill
Jill Baumgartner is an Associate Professor and William Dawson
Scholar in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at
McGill University. She studies exposure to environmental
pollutants and their effects on human health in the context of
urbanization and development. Her publications appear in top
journals in environmental health as we as interdisciplinary
journals including PNAS, Lancet, and Nature Energy. She was
recognized as “an extraordinary scientist under age 40” by
World Economic Forum (2018) and received FRQS and CIHR
Investigator Awards (2015, 2021), McGill’s Maude Abbott
Award for research excellence in early career (2016), and a
Trottier Institute for Science and Public Policy Fellowship (2019). Her group's research has been
covered by major media outlets including the New York Times, NPR, CBC, Scientific American,
and The Guardian. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Atmospheric Environment. Dr.
Baumgartner holds a joint Ph.D. in Population Health Science and Environment & Resources
from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison and a Masters in Population and International Health
from Harvard University.
BELIS Claudio
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Claudio A. Belis is a Project Leader at the Air and Climate Unit of the European Commission Joint Research Centre. He has long‐term experience in the field of air pollution measurements and in the use of models for quantifying the contribution of air pollution sources to inform pollution abatement strategies (source apportionment). His area of expertise includes the application of integrated assessment modelling to estimate the impact of air pollution on health. Mr Belis led the working group on source apportionment of the Forum for Air quality Modelling in Europe (FAIRMODE) and was Convenor of the European Standardisation
Committee (CEN) Working Group on air pollution source apportionment where he contributed to develop methodologies to test the performance of source apportionment techniques. He currently leads a JRC project to support the implementation of the EU Green Deal in the Western Balkans. Mr Belis authored more than 100 publications including peer‐reviewed scientific papers and
technical/policy reports. He drafted review articles about the contribution of air pollution
sources on particulate matter (PM) on a European and global scale.
BELL Michelle
Dr. Michelle Bell is the Mary E. Pinchot Professor of Environmental Health at Yale’s University School of the Environment, with secondary appointments at the School of Public Health and School of Engineering and Applied Science. Her research investigates how human health is affected by environmental conditions, including air pollution and weather. Other interests include health impacts of climate change and environmental justice. Much of this work is based in epidemiology, biostatistics, and environmental engineering. The research is designed to be policy‐relevant and contribute to well‐informed decision‐making to better protect human health and benefit society. She has over 250 peer‐reviewed publications. Dr. Bell holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and M.S.E. in Environmental Management and Economics from Johns Hopkins
University, M.S. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Stanford University, M.Sc. in Philosophy from University of Edinburgh, and B.S. in Environmental Engineering Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received the NIH Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award, Health Effects Institute Rosenblith New Investigator Award, and Prince Albert II de Monaco / Institut Pasteur Award. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and recognized as a highly cited researcher (top 1% for field globally) for the last three years.
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BESSAGNET Bertrand
Bertrand Bessagnet (Prof.‐Dr.) joined the European Commission ‐ Joint Research Centre in 2021 Project Officer ‐ Air Policy Analyst. Formerly he worked in Citepa (France) as head of the Atmospheric Pollution, Mobility and TerrItories (POMI) department. Between 2001 and 2018, Bertrand Bessagnet was successively R&D Engineer, Unit Manager and scientific affairs manager at the National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks (INERIS), which he joined in 2001 after completing his doctorate in the field of chemistry and physics of the atmosphere in 2000 at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse. In 2015, he obtained his HDR in Atmospheric Sciences from Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris) and is affiliated to Sorbonne University. He is also an engineer in Chemical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (DEA and Engineering Diploma obtained in 1997).
Its main skills are: air quality management, air pollution exposure, modeling, pollutant emissions, climate change, meteorology. Bertrand Bessagnet has contributed at the national level to the development of the CHIMERE chemistry transport model, in close collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He participated in the management of the air quality platform PREV'AIR, the official national air quality forecasting system in France (www.prevair.org).
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BOGAARD Hanna Hanna Boogaard has more than 15 years of experience in air pollution epidemiology. She is a Consultant Principal Scientist at the Health Effects Institute (HEI) in Boston, MA, an independent research organization with balanced funding from the US Environmental Protection Agency and motor vehicle industry. She received a PhD in 2012 in air pollution epidemiology from Utrecht University, Netherlands. She studied health effects of traffic‐related air pollution, and the effectiveness of traffic policy measures. At HEI, she is involved in research oversight and review of studies investigating the health effects of air pollution and studies evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to improve air quality and public health. In addition, she is involved in developing and overseeing new research programs on non‐tailpipe traffic emissions, studies assessing adverse health effects of long‐
term exposure to low levels of ambient air pollution, and studies on health effects of traffic‐related air pollution. Furthermore, she is working very closely with an expert HEI panel to systematically evaluate the evidence for the associations of long‐term exposure to traffic‐related air pollution with selected health outcomes. She holds a MSc in Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences (2005) from Maastricht University, Netherlands. She has been advisor of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, World Health Organization, Health Canada, and other national and international bodies. She is associate editor for the journal Environment International. She is co‐chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Europe Chapter.
BRASSEUR Guy Guy P. Brasseur was educated at the Free University of
Brussels, Belgium where he earned two engineering degrees:
one in physics (1971) and one in telecommunications and
electronics (1974). He obtained his PhD degree at the same
University, but completed the work at the Belgian Institute for
Space Aeronomy under the supervision of Prof. Marcel.
Nicolet. His PhD thesis focused on the effects of nitrogen
oxides on the stratospheric ozone layer, and specifically
assessed the potential stratospheric impact of a projected fleet
of supersonic aircraft. Brasseur worked several years at the
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, where he developed
advanced models of photochemistry and transport in the
middle atmosphere. Between 1977 and 1981, he served as an
elected member of the Belgian House of Representatives, and was a delegate to the
Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe (Strasbourg, France) and of the Western
European Union (Paris, France). In 1984, Brasseur made a 5‐month visit at the Max Planck
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Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, where he worked with Prof. Paul Crutzen, now Nobel Laureate
for Chemistry. In 1986, he visited for a one‐year period the Atmospheric Chemistry Division of
the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO (Director Prof. Ralph
Cicerone, now President of the US Academy of Sciences).
In 1988, Brasseur moved to NCAR where he first became a staff scientist. He became Director
of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division in 1990 (120 staff). During his tenure at NCAR, he served
between 1992 and 1996 as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Geophysical Research
(Atmospheres), and during the period 1994‐2001, became Chair of the International
Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC) of the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Program
(IGBP). On 1 January 2000, Brasseur moved to Hamburg, Germany, where he became Director
at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (210 staff and students), and Honorary Professor
at the Universities of Hamburg and Brussels. He also became the Scientific Director of the
German Climate Computer Center (20 staff), which hosts one of the largest supercomputer
dedicated to climate science. Between January 2002 and December 2005, Brasseur was the
Chair of the Scientific Committee of the ICSU International Geosphere Biosphere Programme
(IGBP). IGBP is organized around approximately 10 large scientific Projects and promotes „Earth
System Science“ at the international level, including the developing world. Brasseur was also
President of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union (2002‐2004)
and member of the Council of AGU. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the fourth
Assessment Report (WG‐1) of the International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC). Jointly with Al
Gore, the IPCC was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Between January 2006 and July 2009,
Brasseur was an Associate Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
and Head of the Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory (ESSL, 300 staff). Since July 2009, he is the
founding Director of the Climate Service Center (CSC) in Hamburg, Germany and an External
Member of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. He has become the first Distinguished
Scholar appointed by NCAR. Since June, 2014, he is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for
Meteorology as a Senior Scientist and Project Leader. He was until 2020 Associate Director of
NCAR in Boulder, CO, USA.
In addition to his management tasks, Brasseur’s primary scientific interests are questions
related to Global Change, climate variability, chemistry‐climate relations, biosphere‐
atmosphere interactions, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, global air pollution
including tropospheric ozone, solar‐terrestrial relations. He has led the development of
complex models describing the formation and fate of chemical compounds in the stratosphere
and troposphere. One of these models, called MOZART, has become a community‐model for
global atmospheric chemistry and is used in several universities and research centers. He also
used climate models to study the interactions between the biogeochemical and the climate
system. He now promotes the concept of integrated Earth System Model (ESM). He has
authored or co‐authored approximately 180 publications in the peer‐reviewed literature, and
has contributed to the publication of several books.
Brasseur has performed studies on the role of nitrogen compounds in the upper atmosphere, on the response of ozone and temperature to solar variability and to anthropogenic trace constituents, on the formation and fate of positive and negative ions in the mesosphere, stratosphere and troposphere, on the impact of chlorofluorocarbons on stratospheric ozone,
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on the impact of volcanic eruptions on chemical compounds in the middle atmosphere, on the effects of chemical perturbations on climate forcing, on the global budget of atmospheric trace constituents, on the relation between the biosphere and the atmospheric chemical composition, etc. In Hamburg and in Boulder, he has been working more specifically on the development of comprehensive Earth System Models. The mission of the Climate Service Center in Hamburg that Brasseur currently directed is to help society to cope with the risks and opportunities associated with climate change. The Center, provides relevant science‐based information to support the development and implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation strategies and measures. CAI Weinjia Tsinghua University Department of Earth System Science China
BRUNEKREEF Bert
Academic education in Environmental Sciences at the University of Wageningen, the Netherlands, 1971‐1979. From 1979‐2000, he has been employed by the Department of Environmental Health of the Wageningen University, first as assistant professor, since 1986 as associate professor, and since 1993 as full Professor. In 1985, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Epidemiology from the University of Wageningen.
In 1986/1987, he spent the academic year at the Harvard School of Public Health, studying health effects of air pollution episodes, and of living in damp homes. In 1995, he served as the main organizer of the annual ISEE/ISEA conference which was held in the Netherlands that year. In 1998, he was chosen to be president of the ISEE for the years 2000 and 2001. In 2019, he co‐chaired the 31st annual ISEE meeting in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Since the early 1990s, prof. Brunekreef has coordinated five EU funded studies (PEACE, TRAPCA, AIRALLERG, AIRNET and ESCAPE) in the field of air pollution, allergy and health. He is or has been partner in many other international collaborative studies. He has also been the PI on three studies funded by the US Health Effects Institute. The last one is ELAPSE (Effects of Low‐level Air Pollution: a Study in Europe). This is one of three studies conducted in Europe, the USA and Canada, focused on health effects of air pollution below current standards and guidelines.
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In 2000, his Wageningen Department was moved to Utrecht University where it merged with the existing RITOX Institute to create the ‘Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS)’. In 2005 IRAS absorbed the Veterinary Public Health Department, and prof. Brunekreef was Director of IRAS from January 1, 2005 until mid 2017. Prof. Brunekreef is Emeritus (since July 2019) Professor of Environmental Epidemiology in both the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine, and the Faculty of Medicine at the Utrecht University. On several occasions, Bert Brunekreef served as advisor on national and international panels in the field of environmental health, including the Dutch National Health Council, European Community, Health Canada, WHO, the Health Effects Institute and the US EPA. Bert Brunekreef is co‐author of more than 600 peer reviewed journal articles in the field of environmental epidemiology and exposure assessment. He is currently Editor in Chief of Environmental Epidemiology. He received the ISEE John Goldsmith award (2007), the European Lung Foundation Award (2007), an honorary doctorate of the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium (2008), the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences (2008), and an Academy Professorship of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (2009) to which he also was elected to become a member in 2009. In 1991 he was elected Fellow of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ), in 2014 he was elected fellow of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and in 2021 fellow of the ISEE. In 2019, he was appointed honorary member of the Dutch Health Council for his lifetime service to the council. In 2011 he was awarded a royal distinction (Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion) for his services to science and society.
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CLASEN Thomas Thomas Clasen, an epidemiologist, is Rose Salamone
Gangrarosa Professor of Environmental Health at the Rollins
School of Public Health, Emory University. He has led more
than $45 million in research on household‐ and community‐
level environmental health interventions in low‐income
countries. His work has been published in leading journals,
including The Lancet Global Health, The BMJ, PLOS Med,
Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Science &
Technology, WHO Bulletin, Epidemiology, and the
International Journal of Epidemiology. His research includes
randomized controlled field trials, systematic reviews,
assessments of environmental interventions in emergency
and outbreak response, and cost and cost‐effectiveness
analyses. His current research includes the multi‐country HAPIN trial to assess the health
impact of LPG stoves; a large‐scale trial of a program provide water filters and improved cook
stoves to lower income populations in Rwanda; and an evaluation of a slum redevelopment
intervention in Fiji and Indonesia. Prof. Clasen holds an MSc (Control of Infectious Diseases)
and PhD from the University of London; he also holds a JD (Law) from Georgetown University.
COHEN Aaron
Aaron J Cohen is Consulting Principal Scientist at the Health
Effects Institute (HEI), a position he has held since his
retirement from HEI in May 2016. Prior to retirement Dr.
Cohen developed and managed for 26 years HEI’s US and
international epidemiologic research programs on the adverse
health effects of air pollution. He now provides strategic
advice on the development and conduct of HEI’s global health
research.
Dr. Cohen is an Affiliate Professor at the Institute for Health
Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of
Washington. He co‐chaired the Expert Groups that produced
estimates of the global burden of disease due to Urban Air
Pollution in 2000 and Ambient Air Pollution for the Global
Burden of Disease 2010 collaboration. Since 1999 Dr. Cohen
has served as a Temporary Advisor to the World Health
Organization (WHO) on the evaluation of epidemiologic evidence, air pollution health impact
assessment, and air quality guideline development and has served as an invited expert in
International Agency for Research on Cancer working groups on diesel exhaust and outdoor air
pollution.
Dr. Cohen holds a D.Sc. in Epidemiology (1991), and a Masters in Public Health (1985) from the
Boston University School of Public Health, where he is adjunct Assistant Professor of
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Environmental Health. Prior to receiving his degree in epidemiology Dr. Cohen was a Registered
Respiratory Therapist (AS and BS, Northeastern University), and worked for 15 years in newborn
intensive care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and subsequently as Research
Associate in Perinatal Epidemiology, conducting epidemiologic and clinical research on
neonatal respiratory disease, and the evaluation of related medical technologies. In 2017 Dr.
Cohen received the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology’s John Goldsmith
Award for sustained and outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of
environmental epidemiology.
COLETTE Augustin
Augustin COLETTE is head of the Atmospheric Modelling
and Environmental Mapping Unit (MOCA) of the French
public Institute INERIS (Institut National de
l’Environnement Industriel et des Risques). He holds a
PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from Sorbonne University
and worked in the past for UNESCO, Stanford University,
Ecole Polytechnique and the private sector for
Meteorological Risk Assessment. He has co‐authored 85
peer‐reviewed articles in the field of atmospheric chemistry and physics.
The MOCA Unit of INERIS focuses on short‐term air quality forecast at national (www.prevair.org) and European scale (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), air quality management in support to policy decision making, and local scale air quality modelling including for emergency situations. The modelling expertise of the Unit serves the three missions of Ineris: research, consulting and policy support (in particular through the French National Reference Laboratory for Air Quality, LCSQA). Augustin is chair of the Task Force on Measurement and Modelling in support of the United Nations Air Convention, Scientific Advisor of the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service European Air Quality Forecast Production, Member of the Scientific Committee of the French AQACIA Research Programme, Member of the Management Committee of the European Topic Centre of the European Environment Agency on Air pollution, Transport, Noise and Industrial pollution and editor for the journal Geosciences Model Development.
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CROMAR Kevin Ryan
Kevin Cromar, Ph.D., is the director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and a member of the Utah Air Quality Board. Trained as an environmental epidemiologist, he has appointments as an Associate Professor of Environmental Medicine and Population Health at New York University Grossman School of Medicine. Cromar has published research on the health effects of air pollution on a wide range of health outcomes including respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health outcomes. He has also worked extensively on improving exposure assessment approaches using various technologies for use in health research and risk communication purposes. He has organized and led multiple inter‐agency (NASA, US
EPA, CDC, and NIEHS) workshops on topics ranging from air
pollution monitoring, effectiveness of personal interventions, and to update health damages
used in economic models of climate change. He has also worked extensively with international
organizations, including UNEP, UNICEF, WHO, as well individual agencies in cities around the
world, on various research and capacity building projects.
DARBY Jack Columbia University USA DEY Sagnik
Dr Sagnik Dey is Institute Chair professor at
the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences,
coordinator of the Centre of Excellence for
Research on Clean Air (CERCA), and an
associate faculty of School of Public Policy at
IIT Delhi, India. His research interest is to
understand the interlinkages of air pollution
and climate change and how it impacts human
health. Dr Dey has been involved in several
national (e.g., National Carbonaceous Aerosol
Program, National Clean Air Mission, National
Climate Mission etc.) and international (e.g., NASA’s MAIA mission, Indo‐UK, Indo‐Poland
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bilateral program) projects. He is a consultant of the World Bank on air quality management
and is working with several UN bodies (UNEP, UNDP) on various issues of air pollution. He is a
member of the WHO Southeast Asia RTAG on non‐communicable diseases. He is a
collaborator of the Global Burden of Disease Study. He was awarded INSA Young Scientist
Medal in 2008, NASI‐SCOPUS Young Scientist Award in 2012, Institute Teaching Excellence
Award in 2016 and Fulbright‐Nehru Professional and Academic Exellence Award in 2017‐18.
He is serving as Associate Editor in Atmospheric Environment, and Editorial Board Member of
Scientific Reports (Nature) and Earth System Dynamics. Dr Dey has published more than 100
peer‐reviewed articles in leading journals.
FUSSEL Julia
Julia Fussell is a senior research fellow within the
Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London.
Through the analysis and synthesis of research results, she
disseminates information on the health effects of air pollution
through the preparation of a wide range of published material.
The latter spans articles for peer reviewed journals, official
statements for government agencies, systematic reviews for
international public health agencies and research
organisations and educational material for industry. Prior to
this position, Julia worked as a freelance writer. Her
assignments included expert opinions for industry, scientific
papers for academia and reviews for clients including the
World Health Organisation and US Health Effects Institute.
Julia’s scientific career began at Glaxo Wellcome, where she
investigated the efficacy of cytotoxics, monoclonocal antibodies and gene therapy within early
phase oncology clinical trials. She devised clinical development plans for regulatory approval,
wrote protocols, oversaw international clinical development and prepared final study reports
for regulatory dossiers. A subsequent move into corporate communications within the
company involved precise communication of key themes and policy statements to select and
strategically chosen target audiences. Julia gained a PhD at the University of Southampton, UK.
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GRIGG Jonathan
Jonathan Grigg is Professor of Paediatric Respiratory and
Environmental Medicine at Queen Mary University of London,
and an honorary consultant respiratory paediatrician at the
Royal London Hospital (UK). His current research focusses on the
effects of air pollution on airway infection, and the fate of
inhaled carbonaceous particulate matter in vivo. He has also
performed randomized controlled trials of treatments for
asthma. He is a member of the UK Department of Health’s
Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollution, and Chair of
the European Respiratory Society’s Tobacco Control Committee.
He is a co‐author of reports from the Royal College of Paediatrics
and Child Health (UK) on the health effects of indoor and
outdoor air pollution.
HABRE Rima
Rima Habre, ScD is an Associate Professor of Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California. Her research aims to understand the effects of co‐occurring environmental exposures, air pollution mixtures and social stressors on the health of vulnerable populations across the life course. She develops methods to advance personal exposure assessment using personal monitoring (e.g., wearables, sensors), geolocation, and machine‐learning based spatiotemporal models. Dr. Habre co‐chairs the Geospatial Working Group in the national NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) program. She co‐leads the Exposure Sciences Research Program in the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center (NIEHS Core Center). Dr.
Habre is also MPI/Project Lead and Director of Exposure Assessment in two large research centers at USC investigating the effects of air pollution exposure during pregnancy and the postpartum period on maternal and child health. She received her Doctor of Science in environmental health with a concentration in exposure science from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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HASHIMUZE Masahiro
Masahiro Hashizume is a professor of the School of
International Health, The University of Tokyo, Japan. He is a
physician and an environmental epidemiologist with
particular interest in climate change and human health
especially in current impacts, future projections, adaptation
strategies and health cobenefits of mitigation policies, dust
exposures and transboundary air pollution. He had his
residency training in paediatrics in Tokyo, then received
MSc in Environmental Health and Policy from London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and PhD
from the Univ. of London (LSHTM). Prof. Hashizume is
currently a lead author of IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and serves as a member of the
Technical Advisory Group on Climate Change and Environment for the Western Pacific Region
of WHO. He has also served as a chair of the Working Group on Asian Dust and Health, the
Ministry of Environment, Japan (2008‐2019).
HASSANVAND Mohammad Sadegh
I received my Ph.D in Environmental Health from Tehran
University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. I am an
Associate Professor at Tehran University of Medical
Sciences, Iran, School of Public Health, Department of
Environmental Health. Also, I am the Director of Center for
Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental
Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
My research interests lie in the area of exposure
assessment, indoor and outdoor air pollution monitoring,
health impact assessment of air pollution, and chemical
characterization of particulate matter.
I am a member of appraisal committee for assessing the Health Impact assessment reports in
Iran. I am also a member of Guideline Development Group for WHO global air quality guidelines
at European WHO office, Bonn, Germany. I have been a principal investigator of several air
pollution and its health effects studies at national and sub‐national level in Iran. I am a
coordinator and the lead‐lecturer of “Air pollution” course at Tehran University of Medical
Sciences. I am an Associate Editor at the Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering,
reviewed manuscripts for about 20 journals, reviewed grant applications for Iran National
Science Foundation and Iran’s National Institute for Medical Research Development.
HONG Yun‐Chul
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More than 10 years of experience of international issues of occupational and environmental health, particularly air pollution and health policy, in the Asia‐Pacific region. Extensive experience in organizing international meeting and workshops for formulating policy report, action plans, or research agenda. Proficient in English.
Yun‐Chul Hong has been working as a WHO consultant for many years and have experiences with various policy organizations such as UN Environment, CCAC and UNICEF. He has also been serving as Chair of Thematic Working Group on Air Quality, a policy advisory team on air pollution under the framework of the Regional Forum on Environment and Health in Asia Pacific.
In relation to these activities, He published reports such as “Air Quality Country Profiles: Western Pacific Region (2018)” and “Status of Occupational Health Systems and Services based upon Country Profiles of 15 Members of the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region and WHO Western Pacific Region Action Plan for Universal Occupational Health Coverage 2019‐2023 (2018)” with the support from WHO. He was a co‐chair of the book “Atmospheric Pollution in the Asia Pacific: Science‐based Solutions (2019)” with the support of the UN Environment and CCAC. He also was a main author of the book “Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing Clean Air (2018)” published by WHO. He became Chair of Climate Change and Environment Technical Advisory Group for WHO/WPRO in 2020 and lead four pillar groups composed of Advocacy, Building climate resilience into health systems, Monitoring impact of CCE on health, and Applying CCE lens in our work.
HOPKE Philip
Dr. Philip K. Hopke is the Bayard D. Clarkson Distinguished
Professor Emeritus at Clarkson University and Adjunct Professor
in the Department of Public Health Sciences of the University of
Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. He was the
founding Director of the Center for Air Resources Engineering
and Science (CARES), and the Director of the Institute for a
Sustainable Environment (ISE). Dr. Hopke was the Chair of EPA’s
Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), President of the
American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) and was a
member of the more than a dozen National Research Council
committees and a member of the NRC’s Board of Environmental
Studies and Toxicology. He is a fellow of the International
Aerosol Research Assembly, the American Association for the
Advancement of Science, the Air and Waste Management Association, and the AAAR. His
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research interests: Chemical characterization of ambient aerosol samples; Multivariate
statistical methods for data analysis; Emissions and properties of solid biomass combustion
systems; Characterization of source/receptor relationships for ambient air pollutants;
Experimental studies of homogeneous, heterogeneous, and ion‐induced nucleation; Indoor
air quality; Exposure and risk assessment. Professor Hopke received his B.S. in Chemistry from
Trinity College (Hartford) and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from Princeton
University.
HUANG Wei
Professor Wei Huang received her Doctor of Science (ScD)
degree from Department of Environmental Health at
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2003. She
then joined the Health Effects Institute in Boston
overseeing exposure assessment and environmental
epidemiology studies, particularly in Asian cities, between
2003‐2007. Since joined Peking University in 2007, her
research has focused on examining the underlying
pathways linking air pollution to cardiopulmonary and
metabolic diseases in various age and disease groups. She
has also conducted population studies largely oriented by
assessing the efficacy of population air pollution exposure
reductions, as well as on evidence‐based health
intervention strategies at local, national and global scales.
Her research has been published in leading clinical
epidemiology and environmental health journals,
including JAMA, AJRCCM, EHP, Circ, CircRes, ATVB, Env Int, ES&T, JHM, Indoor Air, PF&T, etc. In
recent years, she has served as advisors or working group members on national and
international panels for global and national evidence assessment and guideline development,
including the World Health Organization, International Agency for Research on Cancer, National
Health Commission and Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China. She also serves as
associate editor for Science of the Total Environment journal, and editorial board member for
Environmental Epidemiology.
ISLAM Khandaker
University of Southern California
USA
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KAN Haidong
Prof. Haidong Kan, he obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 at
Fudan University in Shanghai, China. In 2007, he completed
his postdoc training at the National Institute of
Environmental Health Science of the US. He is Cheung Kong
Scholar Chair Professor of Ministry of Education. He is a
member of the China National Advisory Committee of
Environment and Health, associate editor of Environmental
Health Perspectives and International Journal of
Epidemiology. He is the recipients of the Wu Jieping‐Paul
Jessen Medical & Pharmaceutical Award and China Medical
Board (CMB) Distinguished Professorship Award. His
research investigates how ambient air pollution and global climate change affect human health.
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KATSOUYANNI Klea
Klea Katsouyanni is a Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
and Professor of Public Health, Environmental Research Group,
Imperial College London.
Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental
stressors, mainly outdoor air pollution. She has been the
Coordinator of the EU network APHEA which provided European‐
wide results on the short‐term effects of air pollution and a Partner
in several related international projects (e.g. PHEWE, AIRGENE,
ESCAPE, ELAPSE, EuroHEAT, STEAM, EXHAUSTION, EXPANSE).
Currently she is involved in the investigation of air pollution and
the urban environment and health, ozone exposure and children’s respiratory health, source‐
specific particles and health, methodological issues such as the impact of measurement error
on health effect estimates and the effects of extremely high temperatures on mortality.
She has been or is a member of several national and international advisory committees (E.C.,
W.H.O. etc) for environmental health topics.
She has more than 200 publications in peer‐reviewed journals, h‐index 92 (Google Scholar).In
2006 she was awarded the John Goldsmith award for sustained and outstanding contributions
to the knowledge and practice of Environmental Epidemiology by the International Society for
Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).
KEDOTE Nonvignon Marius
Nonvignon Marius KEDOTE is a teacher‐researcher in the Health‐Environment Department at the Regional Institute of Public Health Comlan Alfred Quenum of the University Abomey‐Calavi in Benin. Affiliated with the Community of Ecohealth Practices network for West and Central Africa since 2011 and with the Thematic Health Research Program of the African and Malagasy Council for Higher Education since 2016, he develops his expertise in ecosystem approaches and on ecosystem pollution and health in West Africa. He coordinated among other projects "The Ecohealth
Chair on Urban Air Pollution and Respiratory Noncommunicable Diseases in West Africa " (2014‐2020) and " The West Africa‐Michigan Charter II for GEOHealth " (2015‐2021) in five francophone countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Senegal). He also works on the planning, implementation and evaluation of innovative community‐based interventions to improve air quality and population’s health.
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He has over 15 years of experience in bioethics research, training and consulting. Also, he has been and is a member of several health research ethics committees. KÜNZLI Nino
Nino Künzli, MD PhD Head Bachelor‐Master‐Doctorate Unit Swiss Tropical and Public
Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel,
Dean of the Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), Switzerland.
Professor for Public Health University of Basel
With an MD from the University of Basel and both an MPH and a
PhD from University of California Berkeley (USA), Nino Künzli has a
30 year record of research in air pollution and health. Appointed as
Associate Professor to the University of Southern California (2002‐
2005) and as ICREA Professor Barcelona (2006‐2009) his research
focus includes ambient air pollution exposure science, epidemiology
and the integration of both into health impact assessment to serve policy makers.
He is engaged in teaching and training on the graduate, PhD, and postgraduate level. Künzli
regularly serves on policy‐relevant committees such as WHO or as President of the Swiss
Federal Commission on Air Hygiene – the advisory board of the Swiss Government. Since
2020, he is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
(CCAC). 2016‐2021 he served on the WHO Air Quality Guideline Development Group.
KHILNANI Gopi Chand Pushpawati Singhania Hospital and Research Institute India
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KHOMSI Kenza
Kenza KHOMSI is head of the Air Quality Department within the National Climate Center at the Observation Systems Direction in the General Directorate of Meteorology in Morocco since March 2016. In the Department, she mainly works on air quality and its interactions with the general atmospheric circulation and the impact on health. She is member of the WMO Study Group for Integrated Health Services and the Study Group on Integrated Urban Services. She is also a coordinating lead author of the Africa integrated assessment of air pollution and climate change led by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC). She holds a PhD in Climatology and Climate Change
(since 2014), a Master in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (since 2009), and an engineering degree in Atmospheric Science (since 2004). Kenza is a certified mentor, trainer and is a senior professional coach. These qualifications helped her to be part of many scientific research programs and to create a coaching program for scientific researches. The coaching program added to the scientific ones are insuring the sustainability of the scientific activity and productivity and the handover among the research team.
KIESEWETTER Gregor
Gregor Kiesewetter is a research scholar in the Pollution
Management research group (previously Air Quality and
Greenhouse Gases Program) at the International Institute for
Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, where
he has worked since 2011. With a background in atmospheric
physics, he has been leading the development of the ambient
air pollution and related health impact calculations in IIASA’s
global Greenhouse Gas‐Air Pollution Interactions and
Synergies (GAINS) model. His research interests include
assessing the contributions of local versus remote sources to
urban pollution with a focus on PM2.5, designing mitigation
scenarios across various spatial scales from local to global,
understanding distributional aspects of pollution and
inequality, and quantifying the health co‐benefits of climate
change mitigation action. Since 2018, he has been involved in
the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change where he has been responsible for the
quantification of global premature mortality from ambient air pollution by sector and fuel.
Among other projects, he has contributed to policy assessments for the European Union’s air
quality legislation, regional studies such as the CCAC/UNEP Assessment on Air Pollution in Asia
and the Pacific, as well as several World Bank funded projects aiming at pollution
management in Vietnam, China, South Asia, and South Africa. Dr. Kiesewetter graduated from
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the University of Vienna, Austria, with a degree in physics in 2006, and earned his PhD in
environmental physics from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 2011.
KINNEY Patrick
Patrick Kinney is the Beverly A. Brown Professor of Urban
Health at Boston University. His research examines the
intersection of global environmental change and human
health, with an emphasis on climate change and air
pollution. His work on the human health effects of air
pollution spans four decades, including studies of the
effects of ozone and particulate matter on lung health and
on daily mortality in U.S. cities. He also has led studies of
ambient and household air pollution in Africa and China. He
led a large randomized trial examining the potential health
benefits of clean cooking technologies in rural Ghana. He
created and directed the first climate and health program
in the US at the Columbia University, where he pioneered studies examining how climate
change could increase health risks from air pollution and extreme heat in the future. Since
coming to BU in 2017, Dr. Kinney has focused on the health and climate benefits that can be
achieved through carefully‐planned mitigation and adaptation strategies. Dr. Kinney earned
his doctorate at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he studied the effects of air
pollution on lung function in children as part of the Harvard Six Cities Air Pollution and Health
Study.
MAAS Rob
Rob Maas (1952) is an environmental‐economist, working at the
Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and
Environment as senior scientific advisor. He supports
international negotiations on transboundary air pollution as co‐
chair of the UNECE Task Force on Integrated Assessment
Modelling. From 1987‐2006 he was responsible for National
State of the Environment Reports and Environmental Outlook
Studies. After 2006 he focused on air pollution and international
air and climate policies. He is currently involved in the review of
the Gothenburg Protocol to abate acidification, eutrophication
and ground‐level ozone. In 2016, he edited the Scientific
Assessment Report of the Convention on Long‐Range
Transboundary Air Pollution ‘Towards Cleaner Air”
MALLEY Christopher
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Chris Malley is a Senior Research Fellow at the Stockholm
Environment Institute Centre at the University of York. His work
spans quantification of the link between air pollution and different
health outcomes, assessment of mitigation options to reduce air
pollution exposure, and the development of integrated air
pollution and climate change mitigation strategies. He also
contributes to the development and application of tools that allow
planners to assess the multiple benefits of different air pollution
and climate change strategies. He has supported over 25 countries
as part of SEI’s engagement in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Supporting National Short‐Lived Climate Pollutant Action Planning
(SNAP) initiative to increase their national capacity to take action
on low emission development. His work has contributed to enhanced climate change mitigation
ambition in Nationally Determined Contributions, and to plans and strategies endorsed at
Ministerial and Cabinet level on air pollution and climate change mitigation.
MARKANDYA Anil
Professor Markandya is a resource economist who
has worked extensively on the links between human
health and environmental burdens including air
pollution. He was a lead author for the 3rd, 4th and
5th IPCC Assessment Reports on Climate Change as
well as a contributor to the Special Report on Global
Warming of 1.5º. He was President of the European
Association of Environmental and Resource
Economics from 2014‐2015. Currently he is
Distinguished Ikerbasque Professor at the Basque
Centre for Climate Change, Spain and Honorary
Professor of Economics at the University of Bath, UK.
MARTIN Randall
Washington University in Saint Louis
USA
MBOW Aminata
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Aminata Mbow Diokhane IT Engineer / Air Quality Expert Chief of Air Quality Monitoring Center (Centre de Gestion de
la Qualité de l’Air ‐ CGQA) since 30 October 2014, Direction of
Environment and Classified Establishment (Direction de
l’Environnement et des Etablissements Classés ‐ DEEC) at the
Senegalese Ministry of Environment and Sustainable
Development. I firstly worked as the IT expert of CGQA (2008‐
2014) and had in charge the data transfer system between the
five air quality monitoring stations and the central laboratory,
the air quality web portal design and maintenance, the
Geographic Information System (GIS) management, the air
quality index calculation and publication. My present
assignments also include the writing and publishing of monthly, quarterly and annual reports
on air quality. I am one of the co‐authors for the manuscripts entitled "Linkages between
Observed, Modeled Saharan dust loading and Meningitis in Senegal during 2012 and 2013"
published in the International Journal of Biometeorology, and “Observed and modeled seasonal
air quality and respiratory health in Senegal during 2015 and 2016” published in GeoHealth. I
hold an Engineering degree from Polytechnic School of Dakar (Senegal), a Master of Science in
Internet and Multimedia Engineering of South Bank University (London – UK), a certificate in
“Air Pollution Source Management” from Kitakyushu (Japan) and a certificate in deployment
the Air Quality Management System (Aiquis) developed by NILU (Norway). I also contributed to
the book “Smart Economy in Smart African Cities”, through the chapter intitled “Air pollution
in African cities” published in Springer.
MEDINA Sylvia
Sylvia Medina is an epidemiologist dedicated to improving
public health through research on the effects of air pollution
on health, with special emphasis on the practical application
of her work.
In particular, the projects she coordinates seek to understand
and cross the last mile that too often separates scientists and
their findings from the minds and actions of policy makers,
health professionals and the public.
Dr. Medina currently coordinates the French Surveillance
Program on Air Pollution and Health at the Direction of
Environmental and Occupational Health of the French public
health agency (Santé publique France) in Paris, with a special
emphasis on promoting epidemiological tools and findings to support local and national
decision‐making. She previously coordinated European and International activities on
Environmental Health, including health impact assessments of different environmental risk
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factors under the WHO‐EC ENHIS program from 2004‐07, the APHEIS project on air pollution
and health involving 26 European cities from 1999 to 2004; and the APHEKOM (Improving
Knowledge and Communication for Decision Making on Air Pollution and Health in Europe)
project (2008‐2011) www.aphekom.org.
Sylvia Medina has coordinated, from 1992‐97, the ERPURS project at the regional health
observatory (ORS Ile de France) in Paris, the first surveillance program on urban air pollution
and health. Dr. Medina participates regularly in European and international public‐health
committees and research projects, such as the Task Force on Health of the Convention on Long‐
Range Transboundary Air Pollution, the ACHIA, AIRNET, APHEA, INTARESE, PHASE, PHEWE,
TRIPLE‐S projects, among others. The latest project to date: the adaptation for France of the
new WHO AirQ+ software for assessing the health impact of air pollution.
After earning her MD at the University of Malaga, Spain, Dr. Medina received her MSc in
epidemiology from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and her PhD in public health from
René Descartes University in Paris. Dr. Medina was finalist of the "European Health Award"
2013 of the European Health Forum Gatsein for the APHEKOM project, an initiative that
significantly contributed to addressing some of Europe's challenges. She was awarded also for
APHEKOM as one of the “Best projects funded under the European Union Health Programme”
2008‐2013. She won the Epidaure Prize for Research in Medicine and Ecology in 1996, and the
“Generation 2000 Doctors Prize,” awarded to her for enabling the public to better understand
scientific information on environmental health.
MEHTA Sumi
Sumi Mehta has over 20 years of experience in air
pollution and health. She has expertise in
epidemiology, exposure assessment, comparative
risk assessment, and cost‐effectiveness analysis,
extensive field experience in South, and Southeast
Asia, and has also worked in Africa, East Asia, and
Latin America. Previously, she has served as the
Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, lead scientist
for the Health Effects Institute’s international
program, and a health policy analyst in the Evidence
and Information for Policy group of at the WHO.
MOHAMED Ruqaya Mahmoud
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Ruqaya Mohamed is from the United Arab Emirates and has
25 years’ professional experience in both public and private
sectors, combining a background in healthcare, medical
research, multidisciplinary programme management and
delivery and environmental management.
She is the Manager for the Air Quality, Noise and Climate
Change Section at the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi
(EAD). In her role, she oversees the air quality monitoring
network, considered best in class in the region, and its ISO
accredited calibration laboratory. She successfully spearheaded the electronic linking of several
entities’ air quality monitoring networks, setting the foundation for the UAE‐wide network. She
manages the implementation and publication of air quality scientific research projects, air
emissions inventories and greenhouse gas inventories. Additionally, she leads the Air Quality
Strategic Priority Area where she provides oversight on the delivery of all the Agency’s cross‐
sectoral operations and projects that fulfil Abu Dhabi’s strategic objectives for air quality
management. She is the Vice‐Chair of the Research and Technical Committee of EAD.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology from the University of Minnesota, USA, a
Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management and Assessment from Niagara College,
Canada, and a Masters in Environmental Sustainability Law and Policies from Sorbonne
University Abu Dhabi, UAE.
NAGL Christian
Dr. Christian Nagl is a physicist and a senior air
quality expert of the team Air Pollution Control,
Buildings & Registries. He is an expert in air
quality management and climate change
mitigation measures. He has gained several
years of experience in conducting and
managing studies concerning air quality
problems on local, regional and national scale,
including the quantification of the impact of air
pollution on human health and the environment. His work covers technical, legislative and
political issues of air quality management in national and international projects. Within projects
on behalf of the European Commission he was responsible for studies on the assessment of
plans and programmes, on critical areas to reach compliance with air quality limit values, and
on reviewing the PM2.5, heavy metals and PAH standards of the Air Quality Directive and the 4th
Daughter Directive.
NING Zhi
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
China
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PANT Pallavi
Pallavi Pant is a Senior Scientist at the Health Effects Institute where she leads the institute’s Global Health program. She has more than a decade of experience in research and public engagement on air pollution, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries. Her research has focused on urban air quality including source apportionment and exposure monitoring and assessment. She serves on the editorial board for Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health and is the social media editor for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. She also has extensive experience working with non‐profit organizations and
she currently advises several organizations. Although primarily trained as an exposure scientist, she has extensive science communication experience and is active in several initiatives to promote public understanding of air pollution and its impacts. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Health from the University of Birmingham, UK and Master’s in environmental sciences from TERI School of Advanced Studies, India.
PEEL Jennifer Jennifer Peel, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Epidemiology at Colorado State University and the Colorado School of Public Health. Dr. Peel is an environmental epidemiologist with a focus on evaluating the health effects of air pollution, including ambient air pollution and household air pollution from indoor cooking in low‐ and middle‐income countries. She is currently one of three principal investigators of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network (HAPIN) trial, which is evaluating the impacts of a liquefied petroleum
gas stove and fuel intervention on exposure and health in Guatemala, India, Peru and Rwanda. Dr. Peel is a member of the Health Effects Institute Review Committee, a standing for the National Institutes of Health, and an Associate Editor for Environmental Health Perspectives. PELTIER Richard
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Richard Peltier is an Associate Professor of
Environmental Health Sciences at the University of
Massachusetts Amherst. He has more than 15 years
of research and teaching experience in exposure
science, atmospheric chemistry, measurement
outreach, data analyses, and stakeholder
outreach. Dr. Peltier received a BS in Biology from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst, a Master of
Public Health in Environmental Health from Columbia
University, and a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from
the Georgia Institute of Technology. He completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in environmental medicine
and inhalation toxicology at the New York University
(NYU) Langone School of Medicine before taking an appointment at the University of
Massachusetts. His lab focuses on questions at the intersection of human exposure to air
pollution and health impacts, with measurement domains including traditional indoor and
outdoor locations, but also in understudied regions of the world. His recent work includes
research in West Africa, the Indian subcontinent (with a particular focus on India and Nepal),
Central Asia, remote indigenous regions of Canada, and, most recently, in the South Pacific. Dr
Peltier is also active in novel instrument development, including the development of low cost
sensing applications in health research that are meant to better characterize human exposure
to air quality. Finally, Dr Peltier is highly active in diverse public engagement beyond the
academy, including leading work for the World Meteorological Organization aimed at member
states who are interested in low cost sensing applications, presenting at workshops at the
World Health Organization on the use of these sensors, and writing explainers for UNICEF to
engage the range of global field office information needs. He has receiving funding from the
US EPA, the National Institute of Health, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the
National Science Foundation. He has published 58 peer‐reviewed papers, has provided ad‐hoc
grant reviewing for the US EPA, NSF, NIH, NASA, and CDC, is a recent Fulbright awardee, and is
the Deputy Editor in Chief for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology.
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PETACH Helen Dr. Helen Petach’s work has focused on using
quantitative information to design and evaluate
health interventions, particularly those that influence
child health outcomes. Helen is a chemist with strong
interests in measurement and diagnostics, starting as
an assistant professor at the University of Waikato,
continuing with leadership roles at Hewlett‐Packard
and SomaLogic, and then moving to the public sector.
For the past 9 years, Helen served as USAID’s Bureau
of Global Health scientific lead for air pollution,
developing grant programs in household energy and
collaborating on air pollution exposure mitigation
programs in South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa. She
has authored a wide variety of research publications
in air pollution, health, and analytic methods. Helen has a PhD in chemistry from Cornell
University.
PEUCH Vincent‐Henri
Vincent‐Henri Peuch is Director of the Copernicus
Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and Deputy
Director of the Copernicus Department at the European
Centre for Medium‐Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).
He oversees the management of a large body of scientific
and technical activities, which underpins the operational
delivery of information products about air quality and
atmospheric composition worldwide. He has been
involved since 2003 in the design, development and
implementation of Copernicus, the flagship Earth
Observation programme of the European Union
(formerly known as GMES, Global Monitoring for
Environment and Security). A native of France, he
obtained his PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
in 1996. He worked as a scientist for Météo‐France for 15
years before joining ECMWF in 2011 to lead the
precursor European R&D activities that eventually led to CAMS. He is an internationally
respected scientist working on numerical modelling and data assimilation of air quality and
atmospheric composition. To date, he has co‐authored over 95 peer‐reviewed publications and
advised 12 PhD theses. He serves or has served in a number of national and international
scientific and advisory committees, including for the European Environment Agency and the
World Meteorological Organisation.
PILLARISETTI Ajay
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Ajay Pillarisetti is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. He received a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from Berkeley and an MPH in Global Environmental Health and BS in Biology from Emory University. Dr. Pillarisetti’s research focuses on measuring and modeling the health, climate, and economic impacts of air pollution, with a focus on household energy use and related behaviors in low‐ and middle‐income countries. He has over fifteen years of experience working on global environmental health research, practice, and capacity building in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, with a recent focus on making science‐backed, policy‐relevant recommendations
on the benefits of clean energy transitions at scale. His work has been funded by the US National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, US EPA, the Clean Cooking Alliance, and a Fulbright student research grant, among others.
PISONI Enrico
Enrico Pisoni works as a scientific / technical project officer in
the Air and Climate Unit, at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of
the European Commission.
He graduated in Environmental Engineering from the ‘Politecnico of Milan’ in 2002, and obtained a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Brescia in 2007, contributing to the development of RIAT (the ‘Regional Integrated Assessment Tool’), a tool to design optimal policies to improve air quality at regional scale. In his current job at JRC, he is mainly responsible for the development and application of SHERPA (‘Screening for High Emission Reduction Potential on Air’), a tool for source allocation and scenario analysis of air quality, in
Europe. He contributed to the ‘PM2.5 Atlas’, a report analysing the sources of pollution (for PM2.5) on 150 cities in Europe. His research interests include modelling and simulation of nonlinear systems, system identification and optimisation techniques. He is mainly concerned with air quality applications, considering monitoring, forecasting and planning. He is author of more than 60 publications on scientific journals, part of the FAIRMODE (the network for Air Quality Modellers in Europe) Steering Group, part of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal ‘Environmental Modelling and Software’.
PLASS Dietrich
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Dietrich Plass holds a Dr. and MSc. in Public Health and a BSc in Health Communication. He is currently working as a senior researcher and is deputy head of the department “Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators” at the German Environment Agency. There he is responsible for national assessments of population health effects due to different environmental exposures with major focus on ambient air pollution. He is an expert in the field of burden of disease and environmental burden of disease assessments as well as in the field of environmental epidemiology. Prior to joining the German Environment Agency he worked as a senior researcher and lecturer at Bielefeld University in the working group “Public Health Medicine” with focus on infectious disease epidemiology, population health and burden of disease. Dr. Plass is collaborator in the Global Burden of Disease Study, member of the WHO European Region “European Burden of Disease Network” and chair of the working group “risk factors” in the EU‐COST‐Action “European Burden of Disease Network”.
PONGSIRI Montira
Dr. Pongsiri is the Advisor on Climate Change and Health at Save the Children. She was the first Science Advisor at the U.S. Mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta, Indonesia where she worked with Member States to apply science and technology to support ASEAN’s sustainability goals and to strengthen the capacity of science‐based policy‐making. She was an Environmental Health Scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Research and Development where she led a research
initiative on biodiversity and human health which studied the links between land use change, biodiversity, and infectious disease transmission. Dr. Pongsiri was the agency’s lead on technical partnerships with the Smithsonian Institution and with Rockefeller’s 100 Resilient Cities Global Challenge. She was a member of The Rockefeller Foundation‐Lancet Commission on Planetary Health. Dr. Pongsiri has worked on planetary health at Cornell University and the University of Oxford and consulted on global environmental changes and health, including with UN agencies in the Asia Pacific Region. She is a Council Member of the Southeast Asia Science Advice Network. Her research and science policy interests are in applying scientific understanding of the relationships between the condition of natural systems and human health for sustainability impact. She has a PhD from Yale University. PUN Vivian
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Vivian Pun is an air pollution epidemiologist with over 13 years
of research experience, focusing on air pollution/environmental
health, urban health, methodological modelling, chronic
diseases and well‐being, and “big data” quantitative research
methods. Vivian has hands‐on public health experience,
working as an epidemiologist and conducting disease and
injuries surveillance for 3 years in the Massachusetts
Department of Public Health in Boston, USA. Vivian joins the
Environmental Health Division as the Air Pollution
Epidemiologist, and is responsible for making the case for
addressing air pollution from a public health perspective,
increasing commitment and capacity of key stakeholders to strengthen air quality management
to promote public health, and informing the public about the risks of air pollution. One of her
recent works is to create evidence of health and economic impacts to justify air pollution action
and evaluate potential solutions to inform future implementation of air pollution control
measures by the Government of Indonesia. Vivian received her Master in Public Health
(Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from Boston University (Boston, USA), and PhD (Public Health)
from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK, China). She can be reached at
QUEROL Xavier
Xavier Querol Carceller (Morella, Spain, 1963), research
Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment
and Water Research (IDAEA) from CSIC, works on
environmental geochemistry applied to air pollution.
PhD on Geology by the University of Barcelona, he did
the postdoc at BGS‐NERC, UK, and later on joined the
Institute of Earth Sciences at the CSIC, and in 2008 the
IDAEA. He has led numerous research projects, co‐
authored around 650 articles WoS scientific journals,
and supervised 28 PhD students. Member of working
groups assessing Clean Air for Europe, member of
WHO‐SAC of REVIHAAP and HRAPIE, Scientific Bureau of EMEP‐UNECE, assessing on air quality
to the Spanish Ministry of the Environment and several cities and regions of Spain. Environment
Award of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2009. King Jaume I Award 2013 for the Protection of the
Environment. National Research Award on Natural Resources in 2020, Member of the Royal
Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona since 2019. In the lists of Thomson Reuters ‐Clarivate
of the most cited researchers since 2014.
RICHMOND‐BRYANT Jennifer
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Dr. Jennifer Richmond‐Bryant is a national
expert in the field of exposure assessment,
specializing in human exposure to air
pollution. Her research has an emphasis on
the influence of variability in human exposure
to air pollution and related implications for
interpreting epidemiologic study results.
While exploring physical aspects of air
pollution, she has also studied air pollution in
environmental justice communities. She is
currently leading an exposure assessment of hazardous waste combustion emissions in a rural
Louisiana town as part of the Louisiana State University Superfund Research Center on
Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals. Dr. Richmond‐Bryant joined the Forestry and
Environmental Resources faculty at North Carolina State University in 2019 to use her
experience as a federal scientist to inform teaching and research. She served as an exposure
assessment subject matter expert for the U.S Environmental Protection Agency from 2008 to
2019, where she authored chapters of the Integrated Science Assessment on exposure
assessment and/or atmospheric science for PM, ozone, carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen,
oxides of sulfur, and lead. From 2005 to 2008, she was an Assistant Professor at the City
University of New York (CUNY) Urban Public Health program. Her work has been published in
several high impact journals.
SAHA Shubhayu
US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
USA
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SALIBA Najat
NA. Saliba is a Professor in Chemistry at the American University of Beirut. Saliba leads several locally relevant and globally important projects related to understanding the chemistry of inhalable tobacco and non‐tobacco smoke and atmospheric aerosols. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, Dr. Saliba has collaborated with many colleagues from the health, engineering, and social science sectors to bring a holistic view to the air pollution problems in the region. In addition, many of her most recent projects concentrate on community‐led environmental projects that are based on the co‐production of knowledge for finding the most suited local solutions. She is the co‐founder and executive director of Khaddit Beirut and the Director and founder of the Environment Academy (EA). In 2021, she was nominated by Apolitical’s the 12 most influential people in climate justice and 100 most influential people in
Gender Policy. In 2019, she received the 2019 L’Oreal‐UNESCO International Award for Women in Science, the National Order of the Cedar from the President of the Lebanese Republic, the Honorary Cedar Shield from the Speaker of the Parliament of Lebanon and the Paul Harris Fellow Pin from the Rotary Club Beirut Cedars. Also, in 2019 she was voted among the top 100 most influential women by BBC. In 2016 she received the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research Award in the Environmental Category.
SAMPEDRO Jon
Jon Sampedro is a post‐doctoral researcher at the
Joint Global Change Research Institute (Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory). He holds a PhD
in Environmental Economics from the University
of the Basque Country (UPV‐EHU) and the Basque
Centre for Climate Change (BC3). His main
research interests include Integrated Human‐
Earth system modelling, Climate‐Land‐Energy‐
Water (CLEW) nexus, air pollution, and human
health. One of his main research lines is the
interconnection between climate change and air pollution in the context of global scenario
analysis. In the last years, he has focused on the analysis of health co‐benefits associated with
different climate mitigation strategies. This work has been published at leading journals,
including the Lancet Planetary Health, Environment International, or Environmental Research
Letters. He has also developed an open‐source tool (rfasst) that links an Integrated
Assessment model (GCAM), with an air quality model (TM5‐FASST), in order to estimate a
range of adverse health and agricultural effects associated with air pollution, for any pre‐
designed climate scenario. During his research career he has established several fruitful
collaborations with numerous researchers and institutions such as the Joint Research Centre
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(JRC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.‐EPA) or the World Health Organization
(WHO).
SHARMA Mukesh
Dr. Mukesh Sharma, a Professor in the Department of Civil
Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India, is
a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He
obtained a Master’s degree from IIT Kanpur and a Ph.D. from the
University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Sharma served the Central
Pollution Control Board, Delhi, for ten years. He has been a
visiting professor at the University of Guelph, Canada, and Kyoto
University, Japan. His areas of research: air quality monitoring,
modeling and management, exposure assessment and
simulations. He has published/presented over 100 papers in journals and conferences. His
significant contributions include (i) expert adviser to international agencies, WHO, International
Council for Clean Transport (ICCT), Clean Air Asia, Manila, UNEP and the World Bank, New Delhi;
(ii) development of national air quality index for the overall status of air quality and health
impacts; and (iii) formulation of national air quality standards. The International, national media
and journals; Nature, Science, The Economist, UK, British Broadcasting Corporation, Time
Magazine, and Wall Street Journal have highlighted his work.
SHINDELL Drew
Drew Shindell is Nicholas Professor of Earth Science at Duke
University. From 1995 to 2014 he was at the NASA Goddard
Institute for Space Studies in New York City and taught at
Columbia University. He earned his Bachelor's at UC Berkeley and
PhD at Stony Brook University, both in Physics. He studies climate
change, air quality, and links between science and policy. His
research group is particularly focused on quantifying the impacts
on human health, agricultural yields, climate and the economy of
policies that might be put into place to mitigate climate change or
improve air quality. He also studies how regional climate responds
to changes in radiative forcing by different agents and in different
locations.
He has been an author on >275 peer‐reviewed publications, received awards from Scientific
American, NASA, the NSF and the EPA, and is a fellow of AGU and AAAS. He has testified on
climate issues before both houses of the US Congress (at the request of both parties),
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developed a climate change course with the American Museum of Natural History and made
numerous media appearances as part of his outreach efforts. He chaired the 2011 UNEP/WMO
Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, and was a Coordinating Lead
Author on the 2013 Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC and on the 2018 IPCC Special Report
on 1.5°C and chaired the 2021 Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating
Methane Emissions from UNEP. He also chairs the Scientific Advisory Panel to the Climate and
Clean Air Coalition of nations and organizations.
TEIXIDO Oriol
Oriol Teixido is a passionate environmentalist with a strong
interest in bridging the gap between social needs, economic
development, and environmental benefits. During his more
than 14 years’ experience in the environmental field, Oriol has
acquired a strong expertise and motivation in implementing
research to promote science‐based policy and effective
decision‐making.
His professional experience started in Barcelona as Air Quality,
Climate Change and Energy consultant. In 2016, he moved to
Abu Dhabi to work in the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi
(EAD) as Air Quality Scientist. Some of his key achievements
include leading the development of the first air quality modelling and forecasting system for
the Barcelona City; studying the natural and anthropogenic composition of particulate matter
in the Arabian Peninsula; and advising on the most appropriate policies and interventions in
Barcelona, Catalunya, and Abu Dhabi.
Oriol believes in the huge benefits of strong stakeholder engagement as the cornerstone to
build a more sustainable society. He has long experience working across different cultures in
Europe and the Middle East, and in different organisation setups: private sector, government,
start‐ups, and non‐profit organisations.
During his “free” time, Oriol serves as CFO in a social start‐up (Better Together) committed to
promote the inclusion of people with disabilities and mental health challenges, and as
treasurer in a non‐profit networking association to promote research collaborations and
foster innovation (ACIEAU).
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THUNIS Philippe
Philippe Thunis obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of
Louvain‐la‐Neuve (Belgium) in 1995 and has been working since at
the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Italy. His
main experience are in meteorology, emissions, air quality and
integrated assessment modeling. He co‐developed the SHERPA
model to support local authorities in their air quality plans. Since
2014, he chairs the European Forum for air quality modeling
(FAIRMODE) that aims at harmonizing and improving modelling
practices across Member States.
TONNE Cathryn
Cathryn Tonne, Associate Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, is an environmental epidemiologist focusing on the health effects of air pollution from traffic and household sources. Her research has investigated exposure patterns and health effects of air pollution in high‐ as well as low‐ and middle‐income countries and the health co‐benefits of climate change mitigation via air pollution. She leads the working group focused on mitigation actions and health co‐benefits for the European Lancet Countdown for Climate and Health. She led the European Research Council funded Cardiovascular Health effects of Air pollution in Telangana, India (chaiproject.org) and has held several
competitive personal fellowships from the US NIH, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the Spanish government. Tonne trained in Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and received a Master of Public Health, with a focus on environmental health, from Columbia University. She is an editor for the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology and the International Journal of Epidemiology.
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TURNER Michelle
Michelle C Turner is an Associate Research Professor at
the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal),
Barcelona, Spain where she is currently a Ramón y Cajal
fellow. Her primary research interest is examining
environmental and occupational determinants of
health in large‐scale epidemiological studies. She has
actively conducted research in both North America and
Europe. She has lead several large‐scale investigations
into the mortality health effects of long‐term ambient
air pollution exposure in the American Cancer Society
Cancer Prevention Study‐II, including of lung cancer,
other non‐lung cancers, interactions of ambient air
pollution and cigarette smoking, and ambient ozone exposure. She served as Author of the
recent Integrated Science Assessment for Particulate Matter of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. She was elected and currently serves as Vice‐Chair of the 40‐country
European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action funded “Coordination and
Harmonization of European Occupational Cohorts (OMEGA‐NET)” network. She is also co‐
Leader in the Exposome Project for Health and Occupational Research (EPHOR) of the Mega
Cohort. She is currently Visiting Scientist in the monographs programme, International Agency
for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France. She was elected as Secretary‐Treasurer 2019‐2022
of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).
VAIDYANATHAN Ambarish
Dr. Ambarish (Rish) Vaidyanathan is a senior
health scientist with the Climate and Health
Program at National Center for Environmental
Health, US CDC. His training and work experience
cover a wide range of substantive areas, including
environmental engineering, exposure assessment,
epidemiology, and data science. In addition, Dr.
Vaidyanathan has several years of experience
planning, coordinating, and implementing
strategies to facilitate the conduct of
environmental health surveillance and translational research projects. Specifically, he has been
able to establish mutually‐beneficial collaborations with various academic institutions, state
and local health departments, and federal agencies on efforts to identify and characterize
populations vulnerable to air pollution and climate change. Of note, his work has been
instrumental in supporting evidence‐based strategies for preventing adverse health impacts
due to extreme weather and air pollution events, and help identify process constraints and
barriers to cross‐sectoral collaboration for data sharing and using complex datasets and
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methods from a public health perspective. Dr. Vaidyanathan also holds an adjunct appointment
in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
VOLTA Marialuisa
Marialuisa Volta is a full professor of Control Systems with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Brescia (IT). Her research interests deal with non‐linear systems analysis, control systems design, environmental systems modeling and control, decision models, Integrated Assessment Modeling for AQ and LC plans. In these fields she has published 117 papers, book chapters, books (Scopus). She has coordinated several EU and national competitive research projects, among these RIAT (EC JRC, 2009‐2010), OPERA (EU Life+ENV/IT/092, 2010‐2013), awarded “Best LIFE Environmental Project” in 2014, APPRAISAL, (FP7 303895, 2012‐2015), BIOMASS Hub (Innovation Hub (IT), 2019‐2022), ATHLETIC (Air quaIiTy and Life styles: HeaLTh Cobenefits) (University of Brescia (IT),
2016‐2019), AgriAir (Fondazione Cariplo (IT) 2021‐2023) She serves as chair (2020‐2022) of the TC8.3 “Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems”, International Federation of Automatic Control; She has been appointed Research Advisor of Clean Air Group at the Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster, IT (2019‐present); M. Volta was a member of the Expert panel on Air Quality Directive review ‐ European Court of
Auditors, Luxembourg (2017); member of the Advisory board of FP7 SEFIRA (Socio‐economic
implications for individual responses to Air Pollution Policies in EU +27) project, EU FP7 603941
(2013‐2016); National delegate at UNECE – TFIAM (2006‐2012).
WALTON, Heather
Imperial College London
Environmental Research Group
UK
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WEST Jason
Dr. J. Jason West is Professor of Environmental
Sciences & Engineering at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. West is an engineer and
leader in interdisciplinary research that connects
air pollution, climate change, energy, and human
health, using models of atmospheric transport and
chemistry at global through local scales. He led
some of the first studies to use global atmospheric
models to assess the health impacts of ambient air
pollution, addressing its global burden on mortality, and the co‐benefits of greenhouse gas
mitigation and the impacts of climate change for global air quality and health. Dr. West has
served on the Scientific Steering Committee of the International Commission on Atmospheric
Chemistry and Global Pollution, and NASA’s Health and Air Quality Applied Sciences Team, and
is a Leopold Leadership Fellow. He is on the editorial board of Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics,
and of the Reviews section of Environmental Research Letters. He earned a BS from Duke
University, MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and an MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon.
He worked as a researcher at MIT and Princeton, a visiting scientist at the Mexican National
Institute for Ecology, was an AAAS Fellow at the US EPA.
WRIGHT Caradee
Dr Caradee Wright is a Senior Specialist Scientist at the South
African Medical Research Council leading the Climate and Health
Research Programme and with a PhD in Public Health. She is also
an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Pretoria, Research
Associate at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and Senior
Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. Her
research focuses on environmental health in Africa, with a focus
on understanding climate change, air pollution and health
impacts to inform interventions and prevent adverse health
outcomes. Caradee was a Committee member of the World
Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines Committee. She is
currently a Council member of the American Society for
Photobiology and an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change Assessment Report 6 Africa Chapter author. Caradee has more than 100 research
articles in accredited journal and was recently an author of the United Nations Environment
Programme (UNEP) Frontiers report on Preventing the Next Pandemic, UNEP Environment
Synthesis Report and the UNEP Measuring Progress Towards the SDGs. Presently, she is a CLA
for the UNEP/SEI/CCAC Africa Assessment on Air Pollution and Climate Change and a lead
author of the NASAC Protecting Human Health against climate change in Africa report.
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YIM Hung‐Lam Steve
Dr. Yim is the tenured associate professor of the Asian School
of the Environment (ASE) at Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore. His research focuses on
interactions between climate and air quality, and their
impacts on public health. His on‐going research is to advance
and utilize state‐of‐the‐art multi‐scale atmospheric models,
along with measurement and statistical approaches, to
understand the mechanisms that drive the climate‐air quality
interactions, and evaluate the impacts on human exposure.
Particular interests are in investigating air quality impacts of
sectoral emissions and transboundary air pollution at
multiple spatial scales, and studying regional climate change due to land‐use changes and global
climate change. Dr. Yim’s research also developed a very few operating Doppler LiDAR
monitoring system in the world and the first one in the Asia, called 3DREAMS, to study
transboundary air pollution, providing a powerful tool for policy makers to monitor
transboundary air pollution. Assessing and developing emission control scenarios, Dr Yim’s
research intends to provide scientific‐based policy solutions for a sustainable environment in
present and future years.
YOUSEF Khader
Yousef Khader is a professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
at Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) and the
Director of the Center of Excellence for Applied Epidemiology
at the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network
(EMPHNET). He has master degrees in Public Health (Tulane
University), Epidemiology (JUST), and Medical Education
(Maastricht University) and doctoral degree in Biostatistics
from Tulane University. He is a fellow of Faculty of Public
Health of the Royal Colleges of physicians of the United
Kingdom through distinction. He worked as a senior Adviser for
non‐communicable diseases, Technical Adviser for Field
Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) program, and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Medical
Sciences at Jordan University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is the chairperson of the
Institutional review Board at JUST. Dr. Khader published more than 625 scientific papers in
reputable journals including and worked as a research consultant with many international
organizations. He received many national and international awards such as Distinguished
Behavioral Scientist, Distinguished Professor Award, Shoman Award for Young Arab
Researchers, SCOPUS Award for Scientific Contribution and Delta Omega Honorary Public
Health Society. His areas of expertise include advanced epidemiologic and statistical methods,
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environmental health, field epidemiology, non‐communicable diseases, mental health, digital
health and maternal and child health.
YUNESIAN Masud
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran
ZAHRAN Eman
Dr. Eman Atef Zahran, born in Cairo, Egypt on April.12, 1977, lives in Cairo, married, started working at Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA), Ministry of Environment (MOE) since 2003 as Environmental Researcher and the current position is general Manager of Air Quality Department. Hobbies are reading, listening to music and care of plants. Education Level Bachelor of Chemistry and Zoology, MSc & PhD degree in Ecology, Faculty of Science. Cairo University – EGYPT. Obtained IBDL accreditation (International Business Driving License) sponsored by the Executive Women Leadership Program
supported by Missouri State University and UN Women ‐ United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women. Have a wide knowledge in several fields of Environmental pollution, contributed in capacity building of staff and Environmental specialists introduce training and lectures on air, water pollution and health effects, Environmental monitoring networks, Environmental measurements and safety in laboratories, Problems of the working environment in the field of petroleum industries, Institutional strategic planning, preparation of plans and indicators. Participated as a team member of Quality Control system of ACCREDITATION for Heavy Metals as required by ISO 17025 in Cairo Central Lab for Environmental monitoring at EEAA. Contributed as Ministry of Environment representative in several workshops, projects & events
with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), World Bank Group (WBG) & (CEHA, WHO),
Amman, Jordan, 2014 and 2019 .