Burlington House
Piccadilly, Mayfair, London W1J 0BD
UK
This one-day symposium organised by the Environmental Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry explores the chemistry of diesel engines emissions, emissions policy, and how it’s affecting human health.
The 2017 ECG Distinguished Guest Lecture will be provided by Professor Frank Kelly from King’s College London.
Traffic pollution and health in London, Umea and Beijing
In cities across the globe, road transport remains an important source of air pollutants that are linked with acute and chronic health effects. In the last 20 years my group have investigated these associations in human challenge chamber studies in Umea, Sweden; real-world exposure scenarios in London and recently the link between traffic emissions and health in the megacity Beijing, China. In this talk I’ll review our findings and those from other groups to hopefully convince you that we need to advance beyond a fossil fuel based road transport system.
Professor Frank J Kelly BSc, PhD, FRSB
Professor Kelly holds the chair in Environmental Health at King’s College London, where he is Director of the Environmental Research Group, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Environmental Hazards and Deputy Director of the MRC-PHE Centre for Environment & Health.
Prof Kelly leads a substantial research activity which spans all aspects of air pollution research from toxicology to science policy. He has led studies of the urban airshed within London including the impact of the introduction of London’s Congestion Charging Zone and Low Emission Zone. Other work examines the toxicity of PM associated metals and quinones, diesel and biodiesel exhaust emissions, wood smoke and the identification of biomarkers of traffic exposure.
Prof Kelly has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers as well as many conference papers and books (as author or editor) on the toxicology and health effects of ozone, nitrogen dioxide and particulate pollution. In addition to his academic work Prof Kelly is past President of the European Society for Free Radical Research and past Chairman of the British Association for Lung Research. He provides policy support to the WHO on air pollution issues and he is Chairman of COMEAP the Department of Health’s Expert Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants.