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Study | Impacts of ambient air quality on acute asthma hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oxford City, UK: a time-series study
Our recent study investigated the association between exposure to ambient air pollution and the risk of hospital admission for asthma in Oxford City. Published in BMJ Open, our research reveals that air quality improvements during lockdown were associated with in a 41% reduction in hospital stays for adult asthma during 2020 as compared to the pre-pandemic years (2015-2019).
Survey | Smoke Control Area Expansion
Please consider helping with the consultation by Oxford City Council that aims at getting the views of residents, businesses, and stakeholders on current plans to revoke all Oxford’s existing 23 Smoke Control Orders currently covering a large part of the city, and to replace them with a new single Order declaring the whole of the city a Smoke Control Area.
Oxford Air Quality Meeting 2021 | 15 Jan 2021
OxAria research presented at this year's Oxford Air Quality Meeting; an event series drawing together experts in vehicle emissions, air quality measurement, public health, and policy.
Webinar: Clean Air across Oxfordshire – what can we do? | 8 Oct 2020
Oxford Friends of the Earth are holding a webinar for UK Clean Air Day, 8th October 2020. Panellists, including Dr Felix Leach, will be discussing the ‘Clean Air Everywhere’ in Oxfordshire programme, and the proposed new target for cleaner air in Oxford.
Press Release | Air and noise quality study will help inform Oxford City’s future environmental policy approach
Researchers at the University of Birmingham and University of Oxford have secured £207,000 funding from the Natural Environment Research Council to investigate the impacts of COVID-19 related public health measures upon air and noise quality in Oxford.