Kevin Cromar Speaks at WHO Second Global
Conference on Air Pollution and Health

Director of Health, Environment, and Policy, Kevin Cromar, was the primary speaker for a featured session at the WHO Second Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, held in Cartagena, Colombia. The conference, co-organized by the World Health Organization and the Government of Colombia, with the support of the Government of Spain, UN agencies, and the World Bank, brought together more than 750 invited stakeholders from national ministries, intergovernmental and development agencies, local governments, and academia and civil society. In Cromar’s session focused on air-quality alerts and indexes in protecting public health, he addressed how these tools can move beyond public awareness to deliver measurable health outcomes.