Global health benefits of policies to reduce on-road vehicle pollution through 2040
Clean air
Pollution from the world's transportation fleet accounted for at least 385,000 deaths in 2015 and caused $1 trillion in damages to health. Long-term exposure to fine particulates, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, and carbon monoxide in vehicle exhaust is linked to lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and asthma. The ICCT’s Clean Air Program advises governments and civil organizations on strategies to address the public health and near-term climate impacts of outdoor air pollution from transportation.
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- Yuwei Pei, Associate Researcher (Beijing)
- Lavnish Goyal, Researcher (New Delhi)
- Mallery Crowe, Associate Researcher (Berlin)
- Daniel Sitompul, Fellow (San Francisco)
- Aravind Harikumar, Researcher (New Delhi)
- Bhaumik Gowande, Associate Researcher (New Delhi)
- Hui He, China Managing Director (San Francisco)
- Ray Minjares, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, Global / San Francisco Managing Director (San Francisco)
- Carmen Araujo, Regional Lead (São Paulo)
- Felipe Rodríguez, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, Europe and China / Europe Deputy Managing Director (Berlin)
- Oscar Delgado, Heavy-Duty Vehicles Program Director, Latin America and India (Washington, DC)
- Joshua Miller, Director of Modeling, Monitoring, and Evaluation and Director of Program Services (San Francisco)
- Francisco Posada, Research Lead (Washington, D.C.)
- Leticia Pineda, Mexico and Canada Regional Lead (San Francisco)
- Namita Singh, Researcher (India)
- Vaibhav Kush, Researcher (New Delhi)
- Moorthy Nair, Associate Researcher (New Delhi)
- Jinjian Li, Associate Researcher (Beijing)
- Jonathan Benoit, Model Developer (San Francisco)
- Ketan Gore, Associate Researcher (Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh)
- Michelle Meyer, Researcher (Washington, D.C.)
- Carlos Jiménez, Researcher (Consultant) (Mexico City)
- Lingzhi Jin, Senior Researcher (San Francisco)
- Hongyang Cui, Senior Researcher (Beijing)
- Liuhanzi Yang, Senior Researcher (Beijing)
- Yihao Xie, Senior Researcher (San Francisco)