Programme
Day 1 – 4 December 2024 (Wednesday) | |
08:30 – 09:00 | On-site Registration |
09:00 – 09:10 | Welcome Speech: Prof. Jin-Guang TENG (Personal link) President,The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
09:10 – 09:20 | Opening Speech: Prof. Xiangdong LI (Personal link) Dean of Faculty of Construction and Environment, Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Session 1: Air Pollution: Past, Present and Future | |
09:20 – 09:50 | London’s Air Pollution Story: From Pea Soup Smog to an Ultra-low Emission City Prof. Frank KELLY (Personal link) Humphrey Battcock Chair of Community Health and Policy, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UK |
09:50 – 10:20 | The Global Quest for Clean Air: Air Pollution and Health Prof. Michael BRAUER (Personal link) Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada |
10:20 – 10:50 | Low Level PM2.5 and Mortality: Recent Evidence and Its Implications Dr Aaron COHEN (Personal link) Consulting Principal Scientist, Health Effects Institute, USA |
10:50 – 11:05 | Coffee Break |
Session 2: New Air Pollutants and Research Approaches | |
11:05 – 11:35 | Identify New Pollutants from Atmospheric Fine Particles Prof. Guibin JIANG (Personal link) Director of the State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
11:35 – 12:05 | Unraveling the Black Box between Air Pollution and Public Health for Transformative Air Quality Management Prof. Xiangdong LI (Personal link) Dean of Faculty of Construction and Environment, Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
12:05 – 12:35 | Discussion |
12:45 – 14:00 | Lunch |
Session 3: Air Pollution and Health | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Air Pollution and Cancer Prof. Tong ZHU (Personal link) Boya Chair Professor, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, China |
14:30 – 15:00 | Toward Health-Oriented Air Pollution Control in China Prof. Shuxiao WANG (Personal link) Professor, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China |
15:00 – 15:30 | Health Effects of Exposure to Wood-burning Pollution Prof. Yinon RUDICH (Personal link) Dean and Professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
15:30 – 16:00 | Micro(nano) Plastics and Tire-wear Particles in the Urban Atmosphere of the Pearl River Delta Prof. Gan ZHANG (Personal link) Director of the State Key Laboratory of Organic Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
16:00 – 16:15 | Coffee Break |
Session 4: Air Pollution: Components and Toxicity | |
16:15 – 16:45 | A Deep-learning Approach to Prioritize Airborne PM Components with Potential Adverse Health Impact Prof. Weixiong ZHANG (Personal link) Chair Professor in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics, Department of Health Technology and Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
16:45 – 17:15 | Semi-continuous Monitoring of Oxidative Potential (OP) for Assessing PM2.5 Toxicity in Hong Kong Prof. Jianzhen YU (Personal link) Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong |
17:15 – 17:45 | Identifying Low-concentration Yet High-potency Toxic Components of PM2.5 Dr Ling JIN (Personal link) Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
17:45 – 18:15 | Unlocking Indoor Virus Exposure Mechanisms for Healthier Future Environments Prof. Hai GUO (Personal link) Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
Day 2 – 5 December 2024 (Thursday) | |
08:30 – 09:00 | On-site Registration |
Session 5: Air Quality and Air Pollution Epidemiology | |
09:00 – 09:30 | Drivers of China's Air Quality During Last Two Decades Prof. Qiang ZHANG (Personal link) Professor, Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China |
09:30 – 10:00 | Air Pollution Epidemiology: From Risk to Prevention Prof. Haidong KAN (Personal link) Professor, School of Public Health, Fudan University, China |
10:00 – 10:30 | The Impact of Coarse Particulate Matter on Respiratory Health in the Elderly Prof. Kin-fai HO (Personal link) Professor, Head of Graduate Division, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
10:30 – 11:00 | Gaseous Pollutants and Health in Hong Kong: Causal Inference from Time Series Dr Linwei TIAN (Personal link) Associate Professor, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee Break |
Session 6: Air Pollution: Chemical Analysis and Toxicity Assessment | |
11:20 – 11:50 | Exploring the Single Particle Perspective in Aerosol Science: Addressing Priority Pollutants, Organics and Mixing State by a Novel Single Particle Mass Spectrometer Prof. Dr Ralf ZIMMERMANN (Personal link) Professor, Institute of Chemistry, University of Rostock, Germany |
11:50 – 12:15 | The Harmful Effects of Air Pollutant on Neurological Health: Evidence from Pre-Clinical Studies Dr Sonata Suk-yu YAU (Personal link) Associate Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
12:15 – 12:40 | Gene Signature Database for Pollutant Detection and Toxicity Assessment Dr Li WANG (Personal link) Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch |
Session 7: Air Pollution: Cost Benefit Study | |
14:00 – 14:30 | Redesign China’s Air Pollution Abatement Targets Prof. Guojun HE (Personal link) Professor, HKU Business School, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
14:30 – 16:00 | Round Table Discussion |
16:00 – 16:20 | Coffee Break |
16:20 – 16:40 | Closing Remarks Prof. Xiangdong LI Dean of Faculty of Construction and Environment, Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |