AfriqAir and CAMS-Net General Meeting

Session

Panel Discussion

4

9 Mar 2023, 15:15

Carnegie Mellon University - Africa Campus, Kigali, Rwanda

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)

35. A four year exposure assessment of ambient PM2.5 Concentration in Kampala, Uganda: Experiences from The Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub

Samuel Etajak

Panel 4: LCS use in health/impact studies

Platform Presentation

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...

45. Breathe Accra Project

Kofi A. Amegah

Panel 4: LCS use in health/impact studies

Platform Presentation

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...