Air pollution and COVID-19: clearing the air and charting a post-pandemic course: a joint workshop report of ERS, ISEE, HEI and WHO

Zorana J Andersen; Barbara Hoffmann; Lidia Morawska; Martin Adams; Eeva Furman; Arzu Yorgancioglu; Dan Greenbaum; Maria Neira; Bert Brunekreef; Francesco Forastiere; Mary B Rice; François Wakenhut; Erika Coleen; Hanna Boogaard; Ulrike Gehring; Erik Melén; Brian Ward; Sara De Matteis

doi:10.1183/13993003.01063-2021

Air pollution and COVID-19: clearing the air and charting a post-pandemic course: a joint workshop report of ERS, ISEE, HEI and WHO

Eur Respir J. 2021 Aug 19;58(2):2101063. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01063-2021. Print 2021 Aug.

Authors

Zorana J Andersen¹, Barbara Hoffmann², Lidia Morawska³, Martin Adams⁴, Eeva Furman⁵, Arzu Yorgancioglu⁶, Dan Greenbaum⁷, Maria Neira⁸, Bert Brunekreef⁹, Francesco Forastiere¹⁰, Mary B Rice¹¹, François Wakenhut¹², Erika Coleen¹³, Hanna Boogaard⁷, Ulrike Gehring⁹, Erik Melén¹⁴, Brian Ward¹⁵, Sara De Matteis^{16

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Affiliations

¹ Environmental Epidemiology Group, Section of Environmental Health, Dept of Public Health, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark zorana.andersen@sund.ku.dk.
² Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Centre for Health and Society, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
³ International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH), School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
⁴ European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁵ Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
⁶ Celal Bayar University Medical Faculty, Dept of Pulmonology, Manisa, Turkey.
⁷ Health Effects Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁹ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Imperial College, London, UK.
¹¹ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
¹² Clean Air Unit, Directorate-General Environment, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
¹³ Belgian Asthma and Allergy Association, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁴ Dept of Clinical Sciences and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
¹⁵ European Respiratory Society, Brussels, Belgium.
¹⁶ Dept of Medical Sciences and Public Health, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
¹⁷ National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.

Abstract

The potential role of air pollution in the worsening of health impacts of COVID-19, and the influence of the pandemic on air pollution levels in Europe is explored. This editorial outlines the major lessons learned to chart a healthy post-pandemic course. https://bit.ly/3hmbaya

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants* / adverse effects
Air Pollutants* / analysis
Air Pollution* / adverse effects
Air Pollution* / analysis
COVID-19*
Humans
Pandemics
Particulate Matter / adverse effects
Particulate Matter / analysis
SARS-CoV-2
World Health Organization

Substances

Air Pollutants
Particulate Matter

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International