U.S.-Indo Air Quality and Health Workshop

美国-印度空气质量与健康研讨会

基本信息

批准号：
9253924
负责人：
Terry Gordon
金额：
$ 1.5万
依托单位：
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-09-30 至 2017-09-29
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Abstract The 2014 publication of the World Health Organization's urban air quality database indicates that 13 of the world's 25 most polluted cities are located within India. President Obama and Prime Minister Modi recognized the socioeconomic implications of this question and agreed to launch bilateral air quality cooperation to help urban dwellers reduce their exposure to harmful levels of ambient air pollution and enable urban policy planners to implement corrective strategies. This application requests funds to support a workshop to initiate and facilitate discussions for establishing strategies for U.S.-India collaborations to improve air quality in India. The research advances and their contribution to new regulations and policies, however, is moving forward rapidly in some countries but less so in others. Numerous studies have evaluated the global risk of exposure to ambient particles and gases. A major finding of these efforts is the recognition that pollutant sources and thus the composition of ambient particles, for example, can vary tremendously from region to region or season to season. However, despite the recognition that India's urban centers have some of the poorest air quality in the world, the specific sources that contribute to the pollution of India's ambient air have not been well addressed. In order to efficiently and effectively focus remediation efforts, we propose to bring together researchers from the U.S. and India to establish pathways for the identification of India-specific pollution sources and the research and policy changes that will be necessary to `clean' the air.

抽象的世界卫生组织发布2014年城市空气质量数据库表明世界上25个污染最严重的城市中有13个位于印度境内。总统奥巴马和莫迪总理认识到这一点的社会经济影响问题并同意开展双边空气质量合作以帮助城市居民减少他们接触有害水平的环境空气污染并支持城市政策规划者实施纠正策略。此申请要求资金支持研讨会发起和促进制定美印战略的讨论合作改善印度的空气质量。研究进展及其然而，在某些领域，对新法规和政策的贡献正在迅速推进但在其他国家则不然。许多研究评估了全球风险暴露于环境颗粒和气体。这些努力的一个主要发现是认识到污染物来源以及环境颗粒物的成分，例如，不同地区或不同季节的情况可能存在巨大差异。然而，尽管人们认识到印度的一些城市中心的空气质量是世界上最差的世界范围内，造成印度环境空气污染的具体来源有没有得到很好的解决。为了高效、有效地集中整治工作，我们建议将美国和印度的研究人员聚集在一起建立途径用于确定印度特定污染源以及研究和政策 “清洁”空气所必需的改变。