Community-Based Air Monitoring - Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH)

Event Type: 
Webinar
Geographic Focus: 
National
When: 
August 24, 2017 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Eastern
Location: 

Online

Residents in communities across the country are often curious or concerned about the quality of the air they breathe and how it may affect their health or the health of family and friends. While many locations have air monitors, those monitors are sometimes not in communities of concern. With the advent of smaller, low-cost sensors, residents have become increasingly engaged in monitoring the air quality in their neighborhoods so as to understand and reduce potential health risks.

This webinar will highlight two community-based air monitoring projects. The first is a collaboration among the California Environmental Health Tracking Program (a partnership of the California Department of Public Health and the Public Health Institute); the Comite Civico Del Valle Inc.; the University of Washington; the University of California, Los Angeles; and George Washington University. The second is a partnership between the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Fairmount Greenway Task Force. The presenters will discuss their approaches, the benefits of those approaches, and future opportunities.

Presentations

The Imperial County Community Air Monitoring Network: A Model for Community-Based Environmental Monitoring for Public Health Action

Paul English, Ph.D., California Department of Public Health 
Michelle Wong, California Department of Public Health 
Edmund Seto, Ph.D., University of Washington 
Luis Olmedo, Comite Civico del Valle

Wheels on the Ground: Citizen Science and the Fairmount Greenway

Ann Backus, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Traci Brown, Ph.D., Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Michelle Moon, Fairmount Greenway Task Force

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Issue Area: 
Environment (Air, Water, Land)
Health

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