Working Group on Effects, 29th Session, 22-24 September 2010 Task Force on Health: Activities and Deliverables ECE/EB.AIR/WG1/2010/3, Annex VII Michal Krzyzanowski TFH Chair WHO/Europe, European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn http://www.euro.who.int/air http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health/air-quality/activities/health-aspects-of-long-range-transboundary-air-pollution

Task Force on Health: Work plan 2010 Report on health impacts of particulate matter => PM / POP session Report on health impacts of ozone => O3 session Review report on the evidence on impacts of various air pollution management options on health => common issues Reporting on monitoring and modelling of health effects of air pollution => Common issues Assessment of hazards from the proposed five new POPs (endosulfan, trifloralin, pentachlorophonol, dicofol and hexabromocyclododecane) The thirteenth meeting of the Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution

13th Meeting of the TFH, Bonn, Germany, 26-27 April 2010 Participating countries / parties Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Canada Czech Rep. Finland France Georgia Germany Ireland Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Sweden Switzerland United States of America European Commission Temporary advisers Turkey, UK, IIASA WHO / Euro /ECEH Bonn

TFH – technical papers 2010 Review of newly accumulated (since 2008) evidence on the health impacts of particulate matter and ozone; Quantifying the health benefits of revisions to the EU’s National Emission Ceilings Directive and the Convention’s 1999 Gothenburg Protocol; Mortality and long-term exposure to air pollution: risk estimates for use in Europe; Mortality and long-term exposure to air pollution: calculating impact estimates; Conclusions of the workshop of the Health Effects Institute on further research to assess the health impacts of actions taken to improve air quality, held on 17 and 18 December 2009 in Dedham, Massachusetts, United States; Evaluation of hazards from five new substances proposed for inclusion to the Convention’s 1998 Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Task Force on Health: Work plan 2011 Annual progress report on health impacts of particulate matter and ozone; Feasibility study of the assessment of health impacts of particulate matter and health benefit analysis of particulate matter reduction in countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (with CIAM); Review of methods of communication on health significance of air quality and assessment of feasibility for harmonization of the information; The fourteenth meeting of the Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution, tentatively scheduled to be held on 5-6 May 2011 in Bonn, Germany.