Conveners
Panel Discussion: LCS use in health/impact studies
- Kofi A. Amegah
- R. SUBRAMANIAN (Univ Paris Est Créteil and Université de Paris)
Description
Speakers:
1) Evelyne Toure (Université Felix Houphouet Boigny, Cote d'Ivoire)
2) Nomsa Thabethe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
3) Samuel Etajak (Makerere SPH, Uganda)
4) Emilia Tjernstrom (Monash University, Australia and co-founder of AfriqAir)
5) Kofi Amegah (University of Cape Coast, Ghana and co-founder of AfriqAir)
Introduction
Air pollution (AP) remains a major a major environmental risk to the public health. Worldwide, 3.7 million deaths occur every year as a result of exposure to ambient air pollution. In Africa, AP is the 2nd largest death threat, causes more deaths than tobacco, alcohol, road accidents, and drug abuse. Sources of AP: traffic, especially in urban areas where traffic is a threat to...
Accra City authorities have been very slow in addressing the air quality challenges in the city in spite of having an Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) developed by the Ghana Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2018. The reasons are lack of reliable data on air pollution levels due to limited air quality monitoring capacity; absence of local evidence on the human health impact of air...
