Air Pollution & Health: how climate change is increasing both acute and chronic disease risk
The George Institute for Global Health, India organised the fifth evidence2policy (e2p) virtual lecture on December 8, 2021. The topic for the lecture was "Air Pollution & Health: how climate change is increasing both acute and chronic disease risk”.
Started in 2017, the e2p lecture is an annual lecture to spark a conversation around the “know-do gap” in public health policy implementation and it is delivered by a leading global health researcher. This year, the lecture was delivered by Professor Frank J Kelly, Director of the Environmental Research Group and the Health Protection Research Unit on Environment Exposures and Health, Imperial College London. Following the lecture there was fireside chat moderated by Dr Sundeep Salvi, Director, Pulmocare Research and Education (PURE) Foundation and former Founder Director, Chest Research Foundation.