When we consider worldwide pollution — particulate matter in the air; contaminated water; persistent organic pesticides; toxic heavy metals like mercury, lead, chromium; the panoply of chemical wastes and endocrine […]
Exposure to pollution leads to over 9 million deaths per year. This is greater than the number of deaths caused by smoking, hunger, natural disasters, war, AIDS, or malaria.[i] Air pollution, […]
At the Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability: Ambition and Action towards 2030, GAHP chairman Richard Fuller highlighted that lead (Pb) accounts for half of the global burden of disease […]
Corena Pincham, a senior undergraduate student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, joined the GAHP team this year as the recipient of the 2020-2021 inaugural GAHP Diversity in Environment and […]
In a recent episode of The Weeds, Vox’s well-regarded podcast on politics and policy, Rachel Silverman, a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), called for more support […]
In 2020, GAHP succeeded in establishing an increasing number of key connections that have increased the visibility of pollution on the global agenda, even as the pandemic placed limitations on […]
In October and November, work on Health and Pollution Action Plans (HPAP) made progress in Thailand, Indonesia, Senegal, Tajikistan and Madagascar. Here is a summary: Training in Geospatial Information Technologies […]
On December 10, over 100 participants from around the world attended a webinar co-organized by GAHP to learn more about clean air case studies from Asia with experts from GAHP, […]
In 2020, GAHP forged connections with G20 engagement groups to put the topic of pollution and health on an expanding array of global agendas. The results of these engagements are […]
On October 28, experts from GAHP, WHO/OMS, UNEP/PNUMA, UNICEF, MERCOSUR, Pure Earth, the governments of Ghana, Uruguay and Peru, Clarios and more gathered to discuss the urgent need to respond […]