The UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) today published Issue 28 of its Chemical Hazards and Poisons Report, ‘Reducing health harms associated with air pollution’, linking to Clean Air Day 2022.
The report outlines:
- The UK Health Security Agency Cleaner Air Programme:
- Building the evidence base (five articles, including updated mortality burden estimates attributable to air pollution)
- Influencing and supporting stakeholders (five articles, including setting air pollution targets under the Environment Act 2021)
- Improving awareness and understanding (four articles, including a guest article on the role of health professionals by Global Action Plan)
- An extended feature article on the influence of the COVID-19 outbreak on the health effects of air pollution
Details of the agency’s involvement in TRANSITION (via our UKHSA Co-Investigator, Charlotte Landeg-Cox) and five further Clean Air Networks funded through UKRI’s Clean Air Programme can be found on p46-51.