Transcript Working Group on Effects, 29th Session, 22-24 September 2010 Task Force on Health: Activities and Deliverables ECE/EB.AIR/WG1/2010/3, Annex VII Michal Krzyzanowski TFH Chair WHO/Europe, European Centre.

Working Group on Effects, 29th Session, 22-24 September 2010
Task Force on Health:
Activities and Deliverables
ECE/EB.AIR/WG1/2010/3, Annex VII
Michal Krzyzanowski
TFH Chair
WHO/Europe, European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn
http://www.euro.who.int/air
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health/air-quality/activities/health-aspects-of-long-range-transboundary-air-pollution
Task Force on Health: Work plan 2010
 Report on health impacts of particulate matter
=> PM / POP session
 Report on health impacts of ozone
=> O3 session
 Review report on the evidence on impacts of various air pollution
management options on health => common issues
 Reporting on monitoring and modelling of health effects of air pollution
=> Common issues
 Assessment of hazards from the proposed five new POPs (endosulfan,
trifloralin, pentachlorophonol, dicofol and hexabromocyclododecane)
 The thirteenth meeting of the Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air
Pollution
13th Meeting of the TFH, Bonn, Germany, 26-27 April 2010
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Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Canada
Czech Rep.
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ireland
Moldova
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Sweden
Switzerland
United States of America
European Commission
Temporary advisers
Turkey, UK,
IIASA
WHO / Euro /ECEH Bonn
TFH – technical papers 2010
a. Review of newly accumulated (since 2008) evidence on the health impacts
of particulate matter and ozone;
b. Quantifying the health benefits of revisions to the EU’s National Emission
Ceilings Directive and the Convention’s 1999 Gothenburg Protocol;
c. Mortality and long-term exposure to air pollution: risk estimates for use in
Europe;
d. Mortality and long-term exposure to air pollution: calculating impact
estimates;
e. Conclusions of the workshop of the Health Effects Institute on further
research to assess the health impacts of actions taken to improve air
quality, held on 17 and 18 December 2009 in Dedham, Massachusetts,
United States;
f. Evaluation of hazards from five new substances proposed for inclusion to
the Convention’s 1998 Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
Task Force on Health: Work plan 2011
• Annual progress report on health impacts of particulate matter
and ozone;
• Feasibility study of the assessment of health impacts of
particulate matter and health benefit analysis of particulate matter
reduction in countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central
Asia (with CIAM);
• Review of methods of communication on health significance of air
quality and assessment of feasibility for harmonization of the
information;
• The fourteenth meeting of the Task Force on the Health Aspects
of Air Pollution, tentatively scheduled to be held on 5-6 May 2011
in Bonn, Germany.