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Commemorating 10 years at GAHP
The Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) celebrated its tenth anniversary this week. Over the past decade, GAHP has worked fiercely to bring pollution to the forefront as a […]
How To Stem The Global Pollution Crisis – One Country, One Transformation At A Time
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 […]
Calling for a Science-Policy Interface on Pollution, Health, and Environment
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, […]
GAHP Chairman Richard Fuller Underscores the Global Lead Poisoning Crisis at the Berlin Forum on Chemicals and Sustainability
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 […]
GAHP intern Corena Pincham Leads Successful Training in Geospatial Technology for Pollution Monitoring
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 […]
Listen Now: Vox’s The Weeds – There’s Lead In Your Turmeric
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 […]
2020 Highlights: Over 100 Virtual Meetings With Real World Reach
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 […]
HPAP Updates: Training in Geospatial Information Technologies and more
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 […]
Clean Air Case Studies in Asia: Watch Discussion With GAHP, UNEP, Air Quality Asia and Other Experts
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, […]
