China Environmental Science & Sustainability Research
Wednesday | 23rd October 2019 | 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Room 120, C.K Choi Building, 1855 West Mall, UBC
ABSTRACT
Ambient (particulate matter [PM2.5] and ozone) and household air pollution are major contributors to the burden of disease in China, accounting for 1.2 million deaths and 7.5% of all disease burden in the country in 2017. Simulations with the GEOS Chem chemical transport model indicate that coal combustion (from power production, industrial sources and residential combustion) was responsible for 40% of the disease burden attributable to ambient PM2.5.
From a sector perspective, industrial sources were responsible for 27% of the mortality attributable to PM2.5, followed by residential combustion (of coal and biomass, 19%), transportation (15%), power production (9%) and open burning (8%). In addition, this presentation will describe province-level attributable disease burden estimates within China, past trends in air pollution levels and health impact and estimation of future disease burden attributable to ambient PM2.5 under various energy and pollution control scenarios.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Brauer joined the UBC faculty in 1991 in the Department of Medicine. He was an inaugural member of the Occupational Hygiene Program, Director of the School of Environmental Health (2003- 2008) and the Occupational and Environmental Health co-lead in SPPH (2011-2014).
His research focuses on linkages between the built environment and human health, with specific interest in transportation-related and biomass air pollution, the global health impacts of air pollution and relationships between multiple exposures mediated by urban form and population health.