Contributions by the WM-Air team, particularly involving the WM-Air model outputs, as well as wider University of Birmingham and Birmingham City Council colleagues, were included in the 2022 Chief Medical Officer’s Annual Report. The report centred on air pollution, setting out the need to focus air quality improvements in places where people, live work and study – including indoor and outdoor public spaces.
Jian Zhong’s work exploring policy interventions to reduce outdoor air pollution in Birmingham using the WM-Air ADMS-Urban model was also included in Chapter 6 of the report, ‘City examples – work to reduce air pollution’ and was highlighted in the Executive summary.
Figures from the report showing maps of NO2 and PM2.5 air pollution across Birmingham.
Partnership work between the wider WM-Air team and Birmingham City Council (BCC) was highlighted in the Birmingham Case study (‘working with academic partners’), written by colleagues at BCC. This specifically mentioned our air quality monitoring (Nicole Cowell, Lee Chapman, Zongbo Shi, Deep Deepchandra Srivastava) and measurements of real-world on-road vehicle emissions (Francis Pope, Omid Ghaffarpasand), ongoing work on the Clean Air Zone and areas of NO2 exceedance (Bowen Liu, Zongbo Shi, John Bryson, Jian Zhong, Bill Bloss), briefing notes on the effects of COVID-19 (Bill Bloss, Zongbo Shi, Daniel Rooney, Nicole Cowell, Congbo Song) and WHO Air Quality Guidelines (James Hodgson, Jian Zhong, Suzanne Bartington, William Bloss), low-traffic neighbourhoods (Nicole Cowell, Lee Chapman, Jian Zhong, Neil Thomas), the Commonwealth Games (Joe Acton), school engagement (Clarissa Baldo, Cat Muller) and UoB-developed tools including a design charter for air quality (Emma Ferranti, Joe Acton, James Levine, Rob MacKenzie), a tool for assessing the benefit of green infrastructure (GI4RAQ, James Levine) and a tool for assessing the effects on health of policy decisions around air quality at a ward level (AQ-LAT, James Hall, Suzanne Bartington, Sue Jowett, Neil Thomas).
