Terms of Reference: Scientific Advisory Group on Air Pollution and Health

As part of the World Health Assembly (WHA)68) resolution on “Health and the environment:

addressing the health impact of air pollution” adopted in 2015 1 and the resulting “Road Map for an

enhanced global response to the adverse health effects of air pollution” as it has been agreed in 2016

by the World Health Assembly in 2016 (WHA692), the World Health Organization (WHO), through the

Department of Climate Change, Environment and Health (CEH), activities aim to address the urgent

public health needs to respond to the effects associated with air pollution. Key activities include

informing policymakers and the broad public on the extent of population exposure to and health

impacts from poor air quality – indoor and outdoor – and strengthening the health sector with

knowledge and tools to engage with other sectors and respond to air pollution-related health effects.