EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 17, 2024) — Solomon Bililign, Ph.D., a professor of physics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, co-organized the “Together for cleaner air in Ethiopia” international conference held at Addis Ababa University. The three-day conference hosted 80 attendees from Ethiopia, Europe and the U.S., including air quality researchers and regulators, health professionals, community members and policymakers. Lund University in collaboration with local universities also co-organized the conference.
The goal of the conference, held in December, was to bring experts together to share and discuss “research data on health impacts of air pollution, highlight the urgency for action and discuss the ways forward.”
According to the 2022 State of Air Quality and Health Impacts in Africa report, “air pollution is the second leading risk factor for deaths” and “in 2019, air pollution contributed to 1.1 million deaths in Africa — of these more than 63% were linked to exposure to household air pollution.”
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