Prof. Anthony Johnson Hedley, The University of Hong Kong 
School of Public Health, Department of Community Medicine

Prof. Anthony Hedley’s main research and public health advocacy interests in recent years have been in the field of environmental health, including outdoor and indoor air pollution, the prevention of diseases caused by tobacco and assessment of environmental risks from measurement of persistent organic pollutants including dioxins and polychlorobiphenyl compounds in breast milk. Professor Hedley and his […]

Christopher Fung, Environmental Protection Department

Tackling air pollution overhanging an area must be based on detailed knowledge of the sources and formation of the air pollutants. Only an air quality modelling system (i.e. a set of inter-linked mathematical equations solved on a high-speed computer) is up to the task of putting together all the information relevant to air pollution in […]