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Air Quality and Health Workshop

Air Quality and Health Workshop

                              


This workshop is hosted by the EPA-funded projects "INHALE: Irish Nationwide Health and Air Quality Linkage" and "NO2: Impact of NO2 on health with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups".

 

When: Thursday, 7th October 2021

Time: 9:30 - 12:30 GMT

Where: Microsoft Teams

 

The aim of the workshop is to discuss current research on air pollution and health.  It is aimed at environment and health policy makers, academics and researchers.

 

Workshop Programme

 

9:30 - 9:40 Introduction from Chair Margaret O’Mahony, Trinity College Dublin
9:40 - 10:10 Integrated Transportation and Land Use Regression Modelling for NO2 Mitigation Aonghus O’Domhnaill, Trinity College Dublin
10:10 - 10:40 INHALE: Progress to-date Eilis O’Reilly & Stig Hellebust, University College Cork
10:40 - 11:10 Using Spatially-linked Microdata to Study Links between Air Pollution and Health in Ireland Seán Lyons, Economic and Social Research Institute
11:10 - 11:40  COVID-19, NO2, Respiratory Admissions: What the Pandemic has taught us Keith Ian Quintyne, Health Service Executive/University College Cork
11:40 - 12:10  Short-term Air Pollution and Stroke Incidence in Ireland Colm Byrne, Mater University Hospital
12:10 - 12:30 Discussion  

 Click here to Join the workshop on Microsoft Teams on the day.

 Visit the INHALE project website

 Visit the NO2 project website