The objective of the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality and Health (AQH) unit in the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health is to promote health sector interventions, as well as interventions in economic sectors (e.g. housing, transport, energy) that reduce environmental health risks, promote better health, and optimize the health co‐benefits of sustainable development and climate change mitigation policies. AQH activities aim to address the urgent need for the health sector to respond to the effects on health associated with air pollution. One of the key activities is to inform policymakers and the broad public on the extent of population exposure to and health impacts from poor air quality. Accordingly, WHO is a custodial agency of three air pollution‐related SDG Indicators and is hosting several databases related to ambient and household air pollution.
WHO is establishing the Global Air Pollution and Health – Technical Advisory Group (GAPH‐TAG), which is an institutionalized and more focused version of the previous Global Platform on Air Quality and Health Expert Group. The GAPH‐TAG will work on the further development of activities related to health impacts assessments and evidence‐based interventions for air pollution, in which the SDG reporting is embedded.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for the activities related to the work plan established with the GAPH‐TAG, more specifically the Expert Working Groups on Exposure Assessment and Interventions. The incumbent will be preparing a report on human air pollution exposure assessment methods, support the unit in organizing the EWG meetings, and the development of modeling process for SDG 11.6.2 with the University of Exeter.
The purpose of this consultancy is to provide technical support for the activities related to health impacts assessments, Sustainable Developments Goals (SDG) indicator 11.6.2 (air quality levels in urban areas) reporting, and evidence‐based interventions for air pollution.
The objective of the work is to support the update of the air pollution and health statistics, by conducting descriptive statistical analyses of various data sets, preparing the documentation for country consultation and subsequent reporting and publication in the World Health Statistics (WHS) series, SDG’s related reports and other documents.
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