Civil & Environmental Engineering
Air quality & human health
Air quality research looks at development and evaluation of methods to provide accurate and extensive exposure estimates in environmental epidemiology studies of the health effects of pollution in urban areas. This research is closely linked to research on transport engineering.
Specific research projects include:
- the estimation of human exposure to traffic-related air pollutants
- epidemiological analyses of the contrasting effects of short, intermediate and long-term exposure to air pollutants on the population of Scotland
This research includes evaluation of the health effects of relatively high traffic-related air pollution exposures on participants in extant public health epidemiological projects in the Glasgow urban area in collaboration with the University of Glasgow and the MRC Social and Public Health Studies Unit.
Funding has been obtained from NERC, Department of Health (NIHR), MRC, the Colt Foundation and the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland. Through these and other research grants research consortia been established with the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.