Wednesday, 27 August 2008

New recruit at AQMRC

Jo Barnes has recently joined the Air Quality Management Resource Centre (AQMRC) at UWE as a Research Associate following a very enjoyable and rewarding four-year "apprenticeship" at the Air Quality Unit (AQU) at Cornwall College. Despite frequent allusions to her apparent lack of sanity, Jo has left the balmy climes of Falmouth and set up home in drizzly "Brizzle"!

Tim writes piece for Environmental Health News

Tim was invited to write an opinion piece for Environmental Health News on the need to balance the climate change agenda with public health and other environmental issues.  The piece was published in EHN on 15th February and can be accessed on the website of the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health here.

AQMRC Contributes to SEPHO report on Transport and Public Health

The AQMRC has helped the South East Public Health Observatory compile a section on air pollution in its new report "Choosing Health in the South East: Road Transport and Public Health".  The report can be downloaded from the SEPHO website here.