Surveillance

Kampala, Uganda is reviewing available evidence on the relationship between air pollution and local rates of air-pollution-related health events, while doing public outreach on the specific causes of such events. At the same time, they aim to adopt local health-protective air quality standards and to set up an air quality surveillance network and an enforcement scheme.

Kigali, Rwanda is planning to assess the impact on air quality of the city’s existing Car Free Day and Car Free zones to inform the formulation of air-quality-related policies.

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.

Barcelona, Spain is developing an injury surveillance system for the city of Barcelona.

Bucharest, Romania published a new online air quality monitoring dashboard went live in September 2023, tracking data from 44 sensors placed throughout the city.

Helsinki, Finland is working with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare to enhance its overall noncommunicable disease (NCD) surveillance capacity through the integration of new social determinants of health datasets with existing city data for improved understanding of health disparities.

Warsaw, Poland in collaboration with the Medical University of Warsaw, is increasing its capacity to monitor and analyze NCD data through the development of a methodology and selection of indicators.

Ahmedabad, India released a 2023 report on a survey of NCD risk factors that the city has conducted house by house. See here for more.

Dhaka, Bangladesh is strengthening its air quality surveillance by installing a network of low-cost sensors to better inform public health policy.

Jakarta, Indonesia launched a public awareness campaign using air quality data to help highlight the linkages between air quality and public health outcomes.

Kathmandu, Nepal is rolling out a new project aimed at strengthening the city’s air quality monitoring network to inform policy throughout the metropolitan area.