Maria Neira, Director Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Dr. Maria Neira is since 2005, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health on the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to WHO, she was Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency and he or she obtained intensive discipline expertise in Africa as a Public Health Adviser.  

Karla Cervantes-Martinez, Technical advisor, WHO 
Dr Karla Cervantes-Martinez is a technical advisor on the WHO Environment, Climate Change and Health Department in Geneva, the place she primarily leads estimates of SDG 3.9.1 Mortality fee attributed to air air pollution. She additionally helps actions associated the worldwide air high quality database; in addition to the era of coaching supplies and technical recommendation on air air pollution epidemiology. Prior to becoming a member of the WHO, she had scientific coaching on Public Health and Environmental Health, centered on epidemiological cohort research for the analysis of continual well being results and air air pollution publicity fashions.

Pierpaolo Mudu, Technical officer, WHO
Dr Pierpaolo Mudu is a technical officer working for WHO-EURO Environment and Health Center in Bonn, Germany. He additionally collaborates with the WHO Headquarters in Geneva. His most up-to-date works embrace the coordination of AirQ+, the software program that calculates the impacts of air air pollution on well being, a number of influence assessments of environmental coverage interventions in varied nations and cities, and the event of the case research each inside and out of doors Europe.

Juan José Castillo, Regional Air Quality Advisor, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 
Mtro Juan José Castillo is a Regional Air Quality Advisor on the Pan American Health Organization. He works delivering technical cooperation to well being officers within the Americas and the Caribbean to construct capacities in direction of addressing the air air pollution burden of illness. Juan has +14 years’ expertise within the environmental public well being discipline. He has labored as an Executive Director in worldwide nonprofit organizations, college and researcher, and as public officer in transport, surroundings and well being. He has working expertise within the non-public sector.  Juan leads the event of the AirQ+ Regional Expert Group for Latin America and the Caribbean, a working group with over 100 consultants from greater than 15 nations fostering the usage of AirQ+ to assist decision-making processes within the area. Juan studied Environmental Engineering and holds a grasp’s diploma in environmental administration.

Stephanie Montero, Clean Air Institute

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Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez, Director de Salud Ambietal, INPS-México
Dr Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez has been the Director of Environmental Health on the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico for 20 years, which is a collaborating heart of the Pan American Health Organization / WHO. In the educational discipline, he’s a acknowledged researcher in Medical Sciences, chief of the analysis line on Health and Environment at INSP-Mexico. He has greater than 100 scientific publications in listed journals and is a professor of grasp’s and doctorate programs on the School of Public Health of Mexico.

Cristina Vert, Technical advisor, WHO
Dr Cristina Vert is a technical advisor on the WHO Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in Geneva. She collaborates within the Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit, in addition to the Policies and Interventions for Health and Environment Unit. She has lately led the coordination and improvement of the Directory of assets for planning wholesome environments, along with UN-Habitat. She additionally supplies assist to the WHO venture to broaden actions on surroundings, local weather change and well being in nations. Her coaching covers environmental sciences, public well being and environmental epidemiology.