Keynote Address

Perspectives on the Science - Policy Interface
Ken Ogilvie, Pollution Probe

Barriers and Gaps to Information Effectiveness at the Science-Policy Interface
David Briggs, Imperial College London

Parallel Sessions - (Complete file of available Abstracts)

Paper Session 1: Health

H.R. Anderson, WHO Task Force – Estimation of risk coefficients for health impact assessment of ambient air pollution in Europe.
Ferran Ballester, Valencian School of Studies for Health – Air pollution & cardiovascular admission short-term relationship in 15 Spanish cities: Results within the Emecas Project.
Annelie Behndig, University Hospital – Diverging airway inflammatory responses to diesel exhaust exposure in health and asthmatic subjects with and without inhaled corticosteroid treatment.
Aaron Cohen, Health Effects Institute – Measuring the health impacts of actions to improve air quality: The HEI research program.

Paper Session 2: Tools

Fintan Hurley, Institute of Occupational Medicine – Issues in estimating the public health impacts of ambient air pollution - what are the morbidity impacts that matter, and what are the main sources of uncertainty?
Pierpaolo Mudu, WHO ? Hearts project: Building a tool for the assessment and integration of health impacts from urban transport systems.
Brian Miller, Institute of Occupational Medicine – Developments in impact assessment for chronic effects on cause-specific mortality.
L. Gephart, ExxonMobil Petroleum and Chemical – Estimating the health impact of ground level ozone attributed to VOC emissions: An alternative science-based approach.

Paper Session 3: Modelling/Case Studies

Michael Jerrett, McMaster University – Modeling the intra-urban variability of ambient traffic pollution in Toronto, Canada.
Markus Amann, IIASA – An integrated assessment of air pollution control strategies for Europe.
Jeff Brook, Environment Canada – Windsor/Quebec City case study.

POSTERS

AIR POLICY TOOLS

R. Cox et al., IPIECA – The IPIECA urban air quality management approach.
K. Davidson et al., Abt Associates Inc.– BenMAP, The environmental benefits mapping and analysis program: A policy analysis tool for estimating health benefits from air quality improvements.
L. Gephart, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. - Estimating the health-based economic impacts of ground level ozone attributed VOC emissions: An alternate science-based approach.
S.S. Jensen et al., National Environmental Research Institute – Impact assessment system for urban air pollution and population exposure.
R.S. McColl et al., University of Waterloo – Health Effects Indicator Decision Index (HEIDI): A risk-based tool for ranking abatement of air pollutant release inventories according to expected local and regional health effects.
M. Nicolich, J. Gamble, ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc. – Proposed framework for an effectiveness analysis for PM reduction.
R. San José et al., Technical University of Madrid – A tool to evaluate in real-time and forecasting mode the air quality impact of industrial emissions.
R. Torfs et al., VITO – No regret policy measures for particulate matter from traffic sources.

AIR QUALITY MODELLING

D. Briggs, SAHSU, Imperial College London - Air pollution modeling for support to policy on health and environmental risks in Europe (APMoSHPERE).

APPROACHES TO AIR QUALITY

P. Berry, Health Canada – Assessing and adapting to the health effects of climate change in Canada.

HEALTH EFFECTS: EPIDEMIOLOGY

P. Aalto, et al., HEAPSS - Aerosol number concentration measurements in five European cities during HEAPSS.
U. Ackermann-Liebrich, L. Bayer-Oglesby et al., University of Basel – Swiss cohort study on air pollution and lung diseases in adults (SAPALDIA 2): methods, participation and air pollution development.
E. Bedeschi et al., ASL di Reggio Emilia – Urban air pollution and respiratory emergency visits at paediatric unit, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
P. Glorennec, Ecole Nationale de la Santé Publique – Health impact assessment of exposures to PM10 in the city of Caen, France.
U. Gehring et al. GSF - Institute of Epidemiolgy - Long-term Effects of Air Pollution & Mortality - The German Cohort on Mortality & Air Pollution in women (GECOMO - Air).
C. Guastadisegni et al., Istituto Superiore di Sanita – Oxidative potential of environmental particulate matter from sites with varying traffic density: Correlation between antioxidants depletion and arachidonic acid release.
J. Heinrich, et al., GSF National National Research Center for Environment and Health - Bitterfeld Study.
T. Lanki et al. Department of Environmental Health, KTL, Kuopio, Finland - Air pollution and hospitalisations for first myocardial infarction (MI) in the HEAPSS cohort
S. Loft, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen - Studies of Air Pollution and Health in Denmark 20
P. Michelozzi, Epidemiology ASL RM/E - PHEWE - Assessment and Prevention of acute Health Effects of Weather conditions in Europe
L. Modig et al., Umeå University – Health impact of ozone levels in Sweden – A national assessment
H-G. Mücke, WHO - APHEIS: Influence of vehicular traffic in health impact assessment of air pollution.
M. Neuberger et al., University of Vienna – Acute effects of particulate matter on respiratory diseases in Austria.
M. Nickmilder et al., Catholic University of Louvain – Lung inflammation in children with short term exposure to ambient ozone: Evidence of a threshold.
S. O’Connell, I. Matthews, University of Wales – An epidemiological assessment of individual’s biological uptake of particulate air pollution and related health effects.
T. Sahsuvaroglu, M. Jerrett, McMaster University – Sources of uncertainty in calculating mortality and morbidity attributable to air pollution.
M.A.Vigotti et al., Epidemiologia Ambientale, Universita' di Pisa - Urban air pollution and emergency room visits for respiratory complaints
H. Walton, Department of Health, UK – Is there a threshold for associations between ozone concentrations and outcomes?
C. Yap, I. Beverland et al., University of Strathelyde – Health effects of long-term exposure to air pollutants in Scotland.


HEALTH EFFECTS: EXPOSURE

T. Bellander, M. Krusa, National Institute of Environmental Medicine, and Environmental Health, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm - Factors influencing individual Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure in Stockholm
S. Fierens et al., Catholic University of Louvain – Impact of iron and steel industry and waste incinerators on human exposure to dioxins, PCBs and heavy metals: results of a cross-sectional study in Belgium.
T. Götschi et al., ECRHS II - Correlations between Surrogates of Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution (PM2.5 mass, Sulphur, NO2, black Smoke, Silicon) across 21 European Centres
D. Lolova et al., National Center of Hygiene, Medical Ecology & Nutrition – Ambient air pollution and children’s exposure to lead & cadmium in a smelter region in Bulgaria.


HEALTH EFFECTS: MECHANISM OF EFFECT

A. Bernard et al., Catholic University of Louvain – Lung hyperpermeability and asthma prevalence in schoolchildren: unexpected associations with the attendance of indoor chlorinated swimming pools.
A. Blomberg et al., University Hospital – Clara cell protein (CC16) as a biomarker for ozone exposure in humans.
E. Brits et al., VITO – Evaluation of the mutagenicity of PM10 and PM2.5 collected in an industrial and urban area of Antwerp.
A.Cebulska-Wasilewska, A. Panek et al., Department of Radiation and Environmental Biology - Influence of the PAH on the DNA Damage Detected in Unexposed and Occupationally Exposed Donors from Košice
A.Cebulska-Wasilewska, A. Panek et al., Department of Radiation and Environmental Biology - Influence of Occupational Exposure to PAHs on Lymphocytes susceptibility to the induction of DNA damage (sampling in Sofia)
C.Y. de Burbure et al., UCL – Lung permeability, antioxidant status and NO2 inhalation: a selenium supplementation study in rats.
A. Gábelová et.al. Laboratory of Mutagenesis and Carcinogenesis - EXPAH: Risk assessment of the air pollution mixtures - 'in vitro study'
B. Lagerkvist, B. Forsberg et al., Environmental & Occupational Medicine – Pulmonary epithelial integrity in children – relationship to swimming pool attendance and ambient ozone exposure.
A. Peters, et al., AIRGENE Study Group - Air Pollution and Inflammatory Response in Myocardial Infarction Survivors: Gene-environment interaction in a high risk group (AIRGENE)
R. Singh, et al., Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention Group, Leicester, UK - EXPAH: Effects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in environmental pollution on exogenous and endogenous DNA damage – oxidative damage
R.J. Sram, Inst. of Exprimental Medicine AS CR & Health Institute of Central Bohemia, Prague - EXPAH: Chromosomal Aberrations by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH)- Biomarker of Exposure to Carcinogenic PAHs
R.J. Sram, Inst. of Exprimental Medicine AS CR & Health Institute of Central Bohemia, Prague -EXPAH: Effects of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) on Environmental Pollution on exogenous and endogenous DNA damage - Czech cohort
M. Taronna, P.A. Bertazzi et al., Università degli Studi di Milano – Short-term exposure to PM2.5, PM1 and blood coagulation in humans


HEALTH EFFECTS: PARTICLE CHEMISTRY

I. Beverland et al., University of Strathclyde – The metal content of airborne particles: Application to epidemiological research.
S.A. Bremner et al., St. George’s Hospital Medical School – Particle species and daily mortality and admissions in the West Midlands, UK.
F. Cassee et al., RIVM – Qualitative differences in particulate air pollution at different locations throughout Europe.
B. De Berardis et al., Laboratory of Environmental Hygiene – Seasonal trend of the physico-chemical characteristics of PM2.1: A study by SEM/EDX and XPS in an urban area of Rome.
R. Pozzi et al., Laboratory of Environmental Hygiene – Effects of Rome winter urban air particles on monocyticmacrophagic raw 264.7 cell line.


POLICY OPTIONS

Alvim- Ferraz et al., Universidade do Porto – European directives for air quality: Analysis of the new limits in comparison with asthmatic symptoms in children.
M. Brody et al., US EPA – Developing risk-based priorities for reducing air pollution in urban settings in Ukraine.
Q. Chiotti, Pollution Probe – Making the linkage between air issues and human health: An ENGO perspective on sustainable transportation policy in central Ontario.
B. Forsberg et al., Umeå University– Predicted health impact of congestion pricing in Stockholm – a local assessment.
G. Granville, CASA – Alberta's PM and ozone management framework.
M.C. Pereira et al., Universidade do Porto – Air quality improvements with European environment policies: SO2 case study in a coastal region in Portugal.
O. Raaschou-Nielsen et al. Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Denmark - Health Effects of PM in Denmark - Do particle filters on heavy-duty vehicles solve the problem?
K. Samadashvili, - Clean Air and Health Policy Considerations in South Caucasian Countries

TRAFFIC

P. Aarnio et al., National Public Health Institute – Composition of and exposure to PM2.5 while commuting in the metro and on the street.
M. Gerlofs-Nijland et al., National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - HEPMEAP: In vitro and in vivo toxicity potency of ambient fine and coarse PM across Europe: the influence of traffic exhaust emissions.
V. Ilacqua, M. Jantunen, National Public Health Institute – Exposure to traffic generated VOCs: Total exposure in urban environments and the specific contribution of exposure in street traffic.
A. Marconi et al, Italian National Institute of Health – Two years fine and ultrafine particles measurements in Rome, Italy.
N. Metz, BMW Group – PM10-Exposure assessment for a city in Europe from 1950 to 2050.
K. Samadashvili, – Review of the health effects from motor vehicle traffic in Tbilisi.

AIRNET

N. Fudge, AIRNET – AIRNET Science-Policy Interface Work Group
G. Hoek, AIRNET – AIRNET Epidemiology Work Group
N. Janssen, AIRNET – AIRNET Exposure Assessment Work Group
E. Sanderson et al., AIRNET – AIRNET Health Impact Assessment Work Group
A. Totlandsdal, AIRNET – AIRNET Toxicology Work Group
A. Totlandsdal et al., AIRNET – AIRNET stakeholder survey
J. Urbanus, CONCAWE – Trends in European Ambient Air Quality
J. Urbanus, CONCAWE – Trends in European Automotive Fuels Quality and Emissions
N. Fudge, AIRNET – AIRNET Communication Strategy

S. Chicherin, Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg – Some special problems of improving air quality strategies for Russian cities. - View from the inside
A. Soares et al., Scientists for Health and Research for Development (SHARED) – SHARED Resources project: the sharingpoint.
E.M.A.L. Rameckers, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Association – Communication on Health Risks of Air Pollution