‘Talk To The Desert': The Hidden Health Toll Of Natural Air Pollution - Health Policy Watch

‘Talk To The Desert': The Hidden Health Toll Of Natural Air Pollution - Health Policy Watch

CARTAGENA, Colombia — “When I met with taxi drivers in Abu Dhabi about the pollution from their cars, they told me to talk to the desert,” recalled Dr George Thurston, director of New York University’s research program on the health impacts of ambient and occupational air pollution. The taxi drivers’ retort points to a global […]

The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described air pollution as “one of the greatest threats to health and the environment of our time”, when he spoke at the Second World Conference on Atmospheric Pollution and Health, held recently in the Colombian city of Cartagena de Indias. Furthermore, according to the Clean Cities campaign, launched by a coalition of more than 70 NGOs, in the cities of Sp…