Bogotá, Colombia is working to improve air quality surveillance through technical improvements and new communication strategies that increase pubic awareness of air pollution's health impact.
Chicago, United States is funding environmental justice communities to help the city develop a monitoring strategy that will improve understanding of air quality variations by neighborhood, with a focus on heavy-duty vehicle emissions.
Fortaleza, Brazil issued a decree to guarantee the monitoring of local pollutants in order to estimate their impact on residents’ health and installed low-cost sensors to improve data collection.
Philadelphia, United States is developing a surveillance system to monitor chronic conditions in the AAPI community and other hard-to-reach populations.
Toronto, Canada is surveying residents on their awareness of heat and wildfire smoke events to inform heat relief and air quality policy and communications.
Vancouver, Canada received an inaugural Partnership for Healthy Cities' Award for making public health data more inclusive and accessible by launching an online public health data tool that tracks population health indicators and working with urban Indigenous communities to better inform data management.