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The Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution was established in 1998 within the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution to assess the health effects of such pollution and to provide supporting documentation. Members include experts designated by countries that are parties to the Convention.

The Task Force works to quantify how long-range transboundary air pollution affects human health, and helps define priorities to guide future monitoring and abatement strategies. It also advises on monitoring and modeling activities to improve the quality of assessments.

The activities of the Task Force are based on estimates of air pollution concentrations (particularly those derived by the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe – EMEP), and on the results of hazard assessment carried out by WHO (for example, as part of revising its air quality guidelines).

15th meeting of the Task Force. Bonn, Germany, 22-23 May 2012

National focal points on air quality and health and invited experts will develop advice for the Convention on:

• health impacts of particulate matter (PM) and ozone;
• approaches to use of evidence on health effects of air pollution in the planned revision of the air quality policies of the European Union;
• health aspects of wildfire smoke, based on results of WHO technical workshop, organized in Bonn on 21 May 2012;
• current methodologies and approaches of quantification of burden of air pollution on health to advise on their application in the regional and national assessments;
• monitoring and modeling of health effects of air pollution in the countries  signatories of the Convention, in particular in countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia.