Guide for mapping air pollution

Environmental Defense Fund released Making the Invisible Visible: A guide for mapping hyperlocal air pollution to drive clean air action that provides advice for cities, counties and other local organizations interested in using hyperlocal air quality data to drive tailored solutions for air pollution. What the guide has to offer The guide is organized into three sections: … Continue reading Guide for mapping air pollution →

Global Health Equity Scholars Program

The Global Health Equity Scholars Program is a 12-month research training fellowship at selected institutions in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC). The GHES is one of six Fogarty Global Health programs and has 44 partner LMIC institutions. Applications are due on November 15, 2019. For more information, visit here.

Training Course on Positive Matrix Factorization

International experts on receptor models and their applications to environmental sciences will offer a comprehensive training course on the use of USEPA PMF 5 program between February 5 and 7, 2020. The training course is addressed mostly to PMF beginners(PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and environmental technicians). The course will cover the following topics: input data … Continue reading Training Course on Positive Matrix Factorization →

CFA Clean Air Ambassadors

*posted as received from Care for Air (CFA)* In this program, CFA will use its expertise in air pollution awareness and advocacy to introduce individuals to the skills required to understand the air pollution crisis and demand change. Who Can Be a CFA Clean Air Ambassador? Students, young professionals, senior citizens... CFA seeks any one … Continue reading CFA Clean Air Ambassadors →

Training: Environmental Exposure Assessment

In October 2018, CCDC-PHFI-GEOHealth Hub for Research and Capacity Building& Capacity Building and Education Committee of International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) organized a Short Course on Environmental Exposure Assessment in India. Photo courtesy of Dr. Cathryn Tonne The course was taught by: Cathryn Tonne, Associate Research Professor Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain Laura Beane-Freeman, … Continue reading Training: Environmental Exposure Assessment →

MOOC on Air Pollution

Institut Mines-Télécom, France has launched a MOOC (massive open online course) on air quality! It focuses on issues related to air quality. Learn the basics of air pollution and its environmental, health, social and economical effects to better understand and address this problem. The course starts on October 8, 2018 and is free and open … Continue reading MOOC on Air Pollution →

TSI Seminar

TSI is launching the Real-Time QCM MOUDI : a quartz crystal microbalance impactor by MSP. Combining two technologies to provide real-time accurate mass measurement, this model provides real-time mass concentrations and distributions. A webinar is being organized on Thursday, April 5th, 2018 and you can register through this link. During this webinar, TSI experts will describe the … Continue reading TSI Seminar →

Short Course on Air Pollution, Climate & Health

PHFI-HSPH GEOHealth Hub for Research and Capacity Building is organizing a course on methodologies for air pollution, climate and health data analysis. It will cover time series analysis, GLM and regression and analysis of longitudinal and clustered data among other things. The course will run from January 15-19, 2018 and is currently accepting applications (Application … Continue reading Short Course on Air Pollution, Climate & Health →

PhD Position in IS-Global Barcelona

IS-Global are recruiting a PhD student to join a dynamic team in air pollution and urban environments. The student will develop new research on the health impacts of climate change and urbanization in a rapidly urbanizing population in South India. The project takes advantage of rich health and environmental data available through the Andhra Pradesh … Continue reading PhD Position in IS-Global Barcelona →

PhD position in atmospheric/analytical chemistry

PhD position in atmospheric/analytical chemistry (2018-2021) at INERIS, France. Topic NTSOA (non-target screening of organic aerosol): Chemical characterization of atmospheric organic aerosols using non-target screening approaches. Details: NTSOA_PhD position_INERIS_2017 H/T: Dr. Anubha Goel