Health risk assessment of air pollution: a tale of two cities

20 May 2021

Dr Wilson Tam, 20 May 2021: Director of Research at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, presents his findings on examining the adverse effects of air pollution on health in Singapore and quantifying it as relative risk based on Accident and Emergency (A&E) data. The study also collected data from Hong Kong for the same period and computed the risk estimates using the same approach for comparison.

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