2024 UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health Stakeholder meeting

Welcome

We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2024 UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Air Quality and Public Health Stakeholder meeting. This event will be held in Bristol this year on 27th November 2024, the following day of the sister event UKHSA Annual Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution Research Review Meeting, and is being organised by the Air Quality and Public Health team within the Environmental Hazards and Emergencies Department, UKHSA.

Discover the Research Review Meeting.

As part of UKHSA’s ongoing work programme on air quality, the annual Air Pollution and Public Health event is held to inform wider stakeholders of developments, giving them the opportunity to contribute to, and comment on, future work plans. In previous years, this feedback has helped to focus efforts on advocacy, awareness-raising and providing authoritative, evidence-based advice on the impacts of air pollution on health in the UK. The stakeholder event is also an opportunity to hear from national and local government and other stakeholders on evidence, guidance, tools and resources available for improving our indoor and outdoor air quality.

Who should attend:

Professionals with an interest in air pollution including public health and environmental health teams; clinicians; specialists in indoor and outdoor air quality, transport and spatial planning; representatives from government departments and agencies; voluntary and community sector organisations and academics.

Call for abstracts

The Organising Committee welcomes local authorities, and other organisations, to submit an abstract for an oral presentation and the submission period is now open.

We encourage submission of abstracts that reflect local authority best practice, case studies, guidance, standards or other relevant activities within indoor (including housing) and outdoor air pollution. Contributions on the following topics would be particularly appropriate for the 2024 conference:

• Successful or emerging interventions to reduce air pollution/exposure/health impacts

• Evaluation of air pollution interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness)

• Community engagement/communication related to air pollution, including how communities were integrated, and community led initiatives

• Health inequalities and air pollution

• Climate change and net zero

• Air quality and policy, including the planning process and building regulations

Abstract submission guidelines:

• All abstracts must be submitted via the link below in the requested format by 4th October 2024

• The abstract should be in maximum of 300 words

• Format: Background, Objectives, Methods, Results, Conclusion

• Do not include diagrams or references

• Each author may submit no more than two abstracts

• Please indicate whether you would prefer an oral or poster presentation

Please submit abstracts using the online abstract submission form here.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by email by the Organising Committee. All accepted abstracts will be made available to delegates via the meeting website. All presenters are expected to register for a place at the meeting.

If you have any questions about the submission process, please contact the organising committee at [email protected].

Programme

The meeting will involve oral presentations, panel discussion and keynote speakers. The full programme will be available to view shortly.

The meeting will be hosted in Bristol in person and will consist of a morning and afternoon session (timings to be confirmed).

The programme and timings are subject to change.

Fee

This event is free to attend.

Scientific Advisory Committee:

External

• Paul Lewis, University of Swansea

• Anna Hansell, University of Leicester

• Natasha Easton, Southampton University

• Dudley Shallcross, Bristol University

• Anna Mavrogianni, University College London

• Nic Carslaw, University of York

• Shawn Lee, Imperial College London

• Shaun Brace, Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

UKHSA

• Alison Gowers

• Christina Mitsakou

• Karen Exley

• Sani Dimitroulopoulou

• Stuart Aldridge

• Duncan Grassie

• Ryan Curtis

• Alice Middleton

• Emma Marczylo

• Paul Fisher

UKHSA Organising Committee

• Becky Kennedy

• Alice Middleton

• Duncan Grassie

• Ryan Curtis

• Karen Exley

• Stuart Aldridge

• Vanessa Bixley

Contact: [email protected]

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