OVERVIEW CAIR4HEALTH Research Needs for Sustainable Development Policies www'cair4health'eu

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OVERVIEWCAIR4HEALTHResearch Needs for
Sustainable Development Policieswww.cair4health.e
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• SPECIFIC SUPPORT ACTION
• SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME
• Sub-Priority 1.1.6.3.
• GLOBAL CHANGE AND ECOSYSTEMS
• Integrating and Strengthening the European
  Research Area

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Agenda External Experts meeting
1. Welcome and introductions (RSS) 2. Overview of
CAIR4HEALTH and purpose of meeting (RSS) 3.
Stakeholder consultation process (DvdH) 4.
Initial research needs for FP7 (RSS) 5. Comments
from external experts and EC Scientific
Officer 6. Key research questions on air quality
and health Physical and chemical characteristics
and impacts of air pollutants (MP, JK) Health
impacts of air pollutants (HB, BB) Indoor air
pollution and health (DS) 7. Discussion on
project outcomes, emerging issues and next stages
Close of meeting
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Aim of meeting

• Discuss progress of the project with external
  experts
• Obtain feedback and views
• Emerging issues of air quality and health
• Views of external experts will help to define
  the next stage of the project

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Background

• Environment and Health Action Plan (EHAP)
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/health/index_en.ht
  m
• Children's Environment and Health Action Plan for
  Europe (CEHAPE)
• http//www.euro.who.int/childhealthenv/
• Clean Air for Europe Programme (CAFÉ) Thematic
  Strategy on Air Pollution
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/air/cafe/
• Environmental Technology Action Plan (ETAP)
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/etap/
• Thematic Strategy on the Urban Environment (TSUE)
• http//ec.europa.eu/environment/urban/thematic_str
  ategy.htm
• Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
• http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/

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Relationships between strategies
Research FP7
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Underpinning through research

• Research is crucially important in establishing
  the knowledge base and providing concrete
  measures by which European environment and health
  research results will be fed into policy-making,
  for analysing and filling the gaps in European
  environment and health activities. (EHAP)
• Three themes
• Improving the information chain to understand
  the links between sources of pollution and
  health effects
• Filling the knowledge gap by strengthening
  research and addressing the emerging issues on
  environment and health
• Reviewing policies and improving communication

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Air pollution and health

• Air pollution is the environmental factor
• with the greatest impact on health in Europe
• and is responsible for the largest burden of
• environment-related disease.
• (EEA 2005 Environment and Health)
• Key problem pollutants PM, O3 and NO2

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The project - Basics

• Aim
• To examine and analyse research results from
  European and other projects related to air
  quality and health to support key European
  sustainable development action plans and
  strategies
• Started February 2007
• Duration 2 years
• Type Specific Support Action (SSA)
• No. of partners 6

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Partners and roles
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Management Structure
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Advisory Group External Experts

• Representatives from user community with the
  following remit
• 1. To provide advice on key research needs
  relating to air quality and health strategies,
  action plans and policies
• 2. To comment and advise on main topics and
  questions to be examined by the project partners
• 3. To assist in reaching an overall consensus on
  the final recommendations arising from the
  project for the main stakeholders.

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Objectives

• To support the EHAP in its continuous review
• To identify the remaining knowledge gaps in AQ
  H in relation to EU strategies
• To identify the technological developments for AQ
  assessment or which lead to impact reduction
  (ETAP)
• To identify the research needs for the urban air
  pollution (TSUE)
• To identify research needs and knowledge gaps in
  relation to the CAFÉ Thematic Strategy on Air
  Pollution and its future requirements
• To support the EU Commission by providing advice
  on relevant 7th Framework Programme calls
• To facilitate the interaction, dissemination and
  future development of air quality and health
  research programmes, clusters and networks

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Work Packages interconnection chart
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SCOPE of CAIR4HEALTH

• Focus on the key issue of air quality (indoor and
  outdoor) and its impact of human health
• Work programme
• Needs of policy makers and other stakeholders
• Review of current research,
• Identify gaps,
• Highlight future areas of research
• Review of air quality research in relation to
  health impact and how the assessment and
  prediction of this impact can be improved
• Air quality-climate interactions will be
  considered in relation to health impact
• Examine development of integrated assessment
  methodologies and impact reduction options
• Less emphasis on other aspects eg noise and
  chemicals

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Approaches
Assessment/control Pollutant Emissions/sources Dis
persion/transformation Concentrations Exposure Mec
hanisms Effects Disease
Assessment/ control Emissions/sources Contributio
n of air pollution Multiple media Multiple
pollutants Disease
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Interactions (I)

• EXPOLIS
• CLEAR and AIRNET
• NEPAP
• PAMCHAR, HEARTS, APHEIS, HEAVEN, RAIAP, HEPMEAP
• INTARESE
• ACCENT
• EnVIE
• COST715, 633, 732, 728
• EUROCITIES
• WHO
• COMEAP, EPAQS, AQEG
• US EPA
• US NECH - US National Center for Environmental
  Health
• US NSF - National Science Foundation
• US HEI - The Health Effects Institute

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Interactions (II)

• National Environmental Health Association (USA),
• Health Effects Institute (USA),
• Australian Institute of Environmental Health
• Conferences
• Indoor Air Quality conference (China), Asian
  Aerosol Conference of Clean Air Initiative for
  Asian cities
• International conference on Urban Air Quality
• New member states and Romania, Bulgaria and
  Turkey

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Gantt Chart
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List Work Packages
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List of deliverables- Year 1
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List of deliverables- Year 2
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Key Workshops

• To develop recommendations on research needs
• Workshop 1 - June 2008
• Workshop 2 - December 2008
• Location - Brussels
• Participants - research community
• Major EU funded projects and programmes

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Schedule of meetings
precise timing will be agreed in negotiation
with conferences