Webinar: Strategies for health experts to engage on air pollution post relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown in India

Webinar: Strategies for health experts to engage on air pollution post relaxation of COVID-19 lockdown in India

Webinar on “Strategies for health experts to engage on air pollution post pelaxation of COVID-19 lockdown in India”.

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Agenda

Emerging research around Air Pollution – CoVID links
Heath sector awareness and preparedness post COVID
International Solidarity. Taking the air pollution agenda forward – from local to global networking lessons
Media Communication Strategies for Doctors and Green Recovery Lessons from other Countries
Strategies for engagement by Health Leadership on Air Pollution post lockdown.

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South Africa | Environment Minister upholds that power company must comply with air pollution regulations

South Africa | Environment Minister upholds that power company must comply with air pollution regulations

Photo: © Mujahid Safodien-Greenpeace

Health Care Without Harm’s partner in South Africa, groundWork, as part of a coalition of community and civil society organizations, achieved an incremental victory for public health in the highly polluted Mpumalanga Highveld region when South Africa’s Environment Minister rejected the public power company Eskom’s objection to complying with air pollution regulations and upheld the enforcement action against the utility’s Kendal power station.

In her decision, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy stated that she is “mindful of the fact that failure to …

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The deadly link between COVID-19 and air pollution

The deadly link between COVID-19 and air pollution

By Arvind Kumar, Founder and Managing Trustee, Lung Care Foundation of India; Jane Burston
Executive Director, Clean Air Fund; Josh Karliner, International Director for Program and Strategy, Health Care Without Harm.

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India | Report: Korba’s coal communities suffer twice the normal respiratory diseases in times of COVID-19

India | Report: Korba’s coal communities suffer twice the normal respiratory diseases in times of COVID-19

Korba’s coal communities suffer from twice the normal respiratory diseases in times of COVID19: SHRC Chhattisgarh

3 April 2020, New Delhi/Raipur: Chhattisgarh’s State Health Resource Centre (SHRC) releases a new study which assesses the health impact on communities in Korba living near coal-fired thermal power plants. The study affirms the hypothesis that the population living near thermal power plants has greater exposure to particulate matter resulting in higher respiratory illnesses than the general population. At a time when the country is in a lockdown …

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Coronavirus and the climate crisis: Common causes and shared solutions

Coronavirus and the climate crisis: Common causes and shared solutions

We are living in a moment when two major global threats, a worldwide pandemic and the climate crisis, have suddenly converged.

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India | Health care sector rises to the dual challenge of air pollution and climate change

India | Health care sector rises to the dual challenge of air pollution and climate change

Health Care Without Harm’s initiatives on air pollution and climate change have entered a time of dynamic growth around the world, as evidenced by our collaborative work in India. On a recent visit to India, Health Care Without Harm’s global team participated in three key activities organized by our partners that represented significant advances in the work in terms of scale and opportunity – at the central and state government level, with diverse actors in the health sector, and at the local and community level …

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Sonia Roschnik and Antonella Risso to join Global Climate Team

Sonia Roschnik and Antonella Risso to join Global Climate Team

Two new staff to bolster Health Care Without Harm’s efforts worldwide

Sonia Roschnik and Antonella Risso

Health Care Without Harm announced today that it has hired two new positions for its global climate team.

Sonia Roschnik will join Health Care Without Harm as International Climate Policy Director. Sonia is currently Director of the Sustainable Development Unit (SDU) of England’s National Health Service (NHS), where she has worked in several capacities since 2012, helping make the NHS a world leader in health care sustainability.

During her tenure as Director of …

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South Africa | groundWork releases report on Just Transition, highlights health vulnerabilities and opportunities

South Africa | groundWork releases report on Just Transition, highlights health vulnerabilities and opportunities

In March Health Care Without Harm’s partner in South Africa, groundWork, together with its Life After Coal partners the Centre for Environmental Rights and EarthLife Africa JHB, launched their 2019 report titled Down to Zero: The politics of just transition.

The Down to Zero report examines the urgent need to respond to climate change, create a truly democratic and participatory order, and share our work and the wealth of the land.

Health is discussed throughout the report, including the range of health risks arising from climate change and air pollution, which …

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Philippines | Iloilo Hospital launches air quality monitoring to protect public health

Philippines | Iloilo Hospital launches air quality monitoring to protect public health

Originally published by Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia.

Iloilo City – Environment and health advocates led by St. Paul de Chartres, Health Care Without Harm and Philippine College of Chest Physicians gathered today at St. Paul’s Hospital Iloilo to discuss impacts of air pollution on the environment.

Among the topics discussed are the sources of air pollution in Iloilo such as transport and coal plants.

“Plenty of patients are coming from the area where the coal plant is, and all of them are getting sick…”  Dr. Helen Caro-Pastolero, …

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India | Air Pollution Chokes Chennai – Doctors For Clean Air Urge City’s Inclusion in National Clean Air Programme

India | Air Pollution Chokes Chennai – Doctors For Clean Air Urge City’s Inclusion in National Clean Air Programme

Air quality in all 15 locations sampled from across the city between May and July 2019 was unhealthy, with levels of PM 2.5 in the worst affected areas nearly three times the national standard of 60 ug/m3, according to a study released by Healthy Energy Initiative and Doctors for Clean Air-Tamil Nadu. The widespread nature of pollution and the fact that the samples were taken in summer highlights how the current pollution crisis is neither an isolated nor a seasonal incident. The study analysed 24-hour …

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