PS022 - Integrated national air pollution and health data

Research Investment

Researchers: Mr Ivan Charles Hanigan (Principal investigator)

Brief description Air pollution (AP) threatens human health globally. To inform policy makers, epidemiologists and public sector agencies require integrated air pollution and health data sets, optimally at the national level. Efforts to integrate such datasets are hampered by heterogeneity of air pollution reporting standards across states and territories and by privacy restrictions on public health data. This project will standardise data inputs from all air pollution monitoring stations in Australia and will build a database containing all historical and current observations, such as particulate matter of 2.5 µm (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), sulphates (SO2), ozone (O3) and ultrafine particles (UFP). Data will then be used in exposure models that accommodate predictors from chemical transport modelling, satellite, weather and traffic observations and land use and vegetation data to estimate exposures at high spatial and temporal resolution. These exposure data will be combined with age- and cause-specific mortality in sufficiently populated areas.

Amount 320,000.00 AUD

Scheme Public Sector to Research Sector Bridges