Content and slides created to describe a joint initiative between the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Minnesota Department of Health to address the adverse health outcomes related to air pollution. Audience was staff, supervisors, managers and assistant commissioners.

1. Urban Air Quality and Respiratory
Health Joint Initiative:
Riding towards good outcomes
MPCA Air Quality Forum
Chris Pulley
Air Quality/Health Coordinator
March 27, 2014

2. Bike Story
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3. Why Are We Riding?
 2013 Legislature
 MPCA and MDH Mission
 Air quality affects health, but how?
 One of many factors
 Steer us to…
 Community engagement
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4. Who’s Riding?
 MPCA Staff
 Air Assessment Section
 EJ Coordinator
 MDH Staff
 Environmental
Surveillance and
Assessment Section
 Chronic Disease &
Environmental
Epidemiology Section
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5. What Tools Are We Using On Our
Ride?
 Technical Report – due October 2014
 Community Toolkit – due October 2014
 Health Impact Assessment – due June 2015
 Final Report to Legislature – due June 2015
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6. Technical Report – Twin Cities Air
Pollution and Health Report
 Based on NYC Report - Air Pollution and the
Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine
Particles and Ozone
 Zip-code level data in 7-county metro area
• Air quality data – MPCA
• Health incidence data – asthma, COPD, cardiovascular
(MDH)
 BenMAP – health impacts from different scenarios
 Results – health impacts, demographic data
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7. Community Toolkit
 Audience: community stakeholders
 State, local and nonprofit resources
 Disease management and impact reduction
 Air quality, asthma, COPD, smoking cessation,
environmental tobacco smoke
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8. Health Impact Assessment
 Inform decision-makers about the effects of
any policy, program or project on the health of
people
 Environmental - one of many factors
 Nexus – community engagement
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9. When We Will Arrive?
 Final report due to Legislature – June 2015
 Appropriate and effective agency roles for MPCA
and MDH
 Recommendations for high leverage
issues/strategies
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