Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment revealed that poor air quality, especially from bushfires and extreme heat events, is a growing threat to public health.
Hospitalisations and premature deaths due to bushfire-related air pollution are projected to rise, with higher rates of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, especially in vulnerable populations.
Simultaneously, many interventions that reduce climate emissions have significant co-benefits for health through cleaner air.
In this Centre for Safe Air webinar, you will learn about both the modelling of climate change-related air quality risks and how researchers are evaluating the health benefits of policies and interventions to reduce emissions.
Speakers:
- Dr Justin Boyle, Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO and lead author of the Air Quality and Communicable Diseases Technical Report. A technical report prepared for the Australian Climate Service as part of the National Climate Risk Assessment.
- Dr Hannah Morrice, Research Fellow Disaster, Climate and Adversity Unit, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne.
The webinar will be Chaired by Dr Sabrina Idrose, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Safe Air and the University of Melbourne.