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Press Releases

• The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health: Pollution linked to nine million deaths worldwide in 2015, equivalent to one in six deaths, Oct. 19, 2017
• Global Alliance Launches Commission on Pollution, Health and Development To Address Largest Cause of Death in Developing Countries, Oct. 1, 2015

• New Analysis Points To Pollution As The Largest Cause of Death in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Global Alliance Urges Higher Priority For Comprehensive Approach to Pollution in SDGs.  June 13, 2014
• New Report Produced in Collaboration with Legal Experts in Seven Latin American Countries Highlights Policies and Practices that Work November 20, 2013

In The News

• Pollution and Global Health – An Agenda for Prevention, Environmental Health Perspectives, Aug. 2018
• How gaps in policy implementation cause public health malpractice, The Lancet, June 16, 2018
• Towards a healthier and safer environment, commentary from WHO, The Lancet, Oct. 2017
• Our polluted world: the need for a global pollution strategy, The Lancet, Sept. 2017
• Air Pollution — Crossing Borders, The Lancet, July 9, 2016
• Environmental pollution, health, and development: a Lancet–Global Alliance on Health and Pollution–Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Commission, The Lancet, Oct 10, 2015

• Global panel on pollution, health launched, pdf, Press Trust of India, Oct. 6, 2015

• What You Need To Know About Toxic Pollution: A Conversation with Richard Fuller,  World Bank News  Apr 21st, 2015  (Edit)

• MEET A 2015-ER: RICHARD FULLER,  UN Dispatch  Apr 8th, 2015  (Edit)

• Put pollution on the environmental agenda again!,  Ideas for Development  Apr 7th, 2015  (Edit)

• Killing Us Softly,  IRIN News  Mar 27th, 2015  (Edit)

• Pollution a Key but Underrated Factor in New Development Goals,  IPS News  Mar 26th, 2015  (Edit)

• 10 Nations Reduce Pollution Deaths,  Huffington Post  Mar 6th, 2015  (Edit)

• Ten of the World’s Most Toxic Places Fight Back Against Pollution, Weather.com  Feb 3rd, 2015

• Rich countries solved this problem decades ago, but now millions of poor people are dying from it, Quartz  Jan 27th, 2015  PDF
• 10 toxic pollution success stories,  Toronto Star  Jan 27th, 2015  PDF
• Developing Nations Write Hopeful New Chapters in a Toxic Legacy,  IPS News  Jan 27th, 2015  PDF

• The Leading Cause of Death in Developing Countries Might Surprise You,  Ensia  Jan 13th, 2015  (Edit)

• Pollution Kills Far More People Than Malaria Or Ebola In The Developing World, Fast Company Co-Exist, Feb. 2, 2015