📅 Next up: Our Climate & Health Toolkit Workshop, 10 Sept @UniBirmingham. Get in touch to join us.

🏫 In Brockmoor, we ran activities at the local school + helped launch a new active travel path. Real partnerships in action!.

Prof. @shizongbo spoke at The Conduit about clean air policies that reduce health inequalities.

🚍 On UK Clean Air Day, we hosted 100+ people at our Annual Meeting 2025. Panelists incl. @LouiseReardon1 , #KirstendeVos (@MumsForLungs), #SallyJames, and #PaulFisher. We explored how transport decarbonisation = cleaner air + better health.

We’ve just released the 4th WM-Net Zero newsletter — full of action across the West Midlands 🌱.

📸 On #CleanAirDay, we showcased a powerful photography exhibition by PIRG members — capturing everyday journeys across the West Midlands by foot, bus, scooter & more. Real people. Real places. Clean air matters. #AirQuality #TransportJustice #NetZero.

🚦 Just 6 days to go until Cleaner and Greener Transport for a Healthier Future, the WM-Net Zero Annual Event!. 📅 19 June | The Exchange, Birmingham.A packed programme with researchers, councils, charities & more. Learn more here👇. #WMNZ2025

🎉 Thanks to everyone who registered — our @WMNetZero Annual Event is now SOLD OUT!. We’re keeping a waiting list open: Can't make it? Please cancel your ticket so we can offer your spot to someone else 🙏

8/ From hospitals to households, and data to delivery vans — air quality solutions need every sector at the table. This panel showed that progress is possible when evidence, policy, and people align. #WMAirQuality #Collaboration #NetZero.

7/ “Wood smoke contains harmful pollutants — similar to cigarette smoke. This policy took 3+ years to develop, but it’s already a platform for change.”.A reminder: public engagement takes time — but it matters. #AirQualityAction #CommunityEngagement.

6/ Elizabeth Stephens (Sandwell Council):.Sandwell faces the highest PM2.5 levels in the region. The council introduced a Smoke Control Area — a major policy step that also opened up public conversations about the harms of wood burning. #AirPollution #SmokeControl.

5/ Interdisciplinary working is key — combining health, policy, transport & data to drive solutions that are evidence-led and regionally grounded. The West Midlands has real potential to set the standard for clean air. #WestMidlands #CleanAir.

4/ @cleanair_doc (University of Birmingham / WM Net Zero):.“There’s no one solution. This is a broad societal challenge.”.Her team works to turn complex data into actionable evidence for authorities. #PublicHealth #NetZero

3/ Dr Prasad Nagakumar (Birmingham Children’s Hospital):.Asthma has one of the worst long-term outcomes in children. When we help a child with asthma, we’re not just improving their health — we’re supporting the whole family. #AsthmaAwareness #AirQualityMatters.

2/ Dr Mubasshir Ajaz (WMCA):.The West Midlands is taking the lead in tackling how air pollution impacts vulnerable children across the region. #EnvironmentalJustice #ChildHealth.

🧵1/ At the West Midlands Air Quality Conference, a powerful panel discussed how poor air quality affects our most vulnerable — especially children. Here’s what we heard from key speakers on the front lines of action. #WMAirQuality

🗣️ “The air children breathe today shapes their health now and in the future.”. – Dr Abigail Whitehouse, @QMUL, at the #WMAirQuality Conference. Her team shares small, practical steps families can take to reduce children's exposure to air pollution. #CleanAir

Prof. @wjbloss (University of Birmingham) highlighted the power of data at the #WMAirQuality Conference:. We now have a growing network of sensors — the challenge is using that data smartly. How do we target the super-emitters — like buses, delivery fleets?

"Air quality has the biggest impact on the health of those in our most disadvantaged areas.” — Mayor @RichParkerLab at the #WMAirQuality Conference. Tackling pollution is about fairness as much as the environment. #BlueSky #CleanAir #WestMidlands #EnvironmentalJustice

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