The International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health

The International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH) is based in Brisbane, Australia and operates within the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).

ILAQH undertakes research, postgraduate training and consultancy in the complex, interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health, with a specific focus on fine, ultrafine and nano particles. The three main aspects of ILAQH research activities are:

	Comprehensive characterisation of indoor and outdoor air, including emission sources;
	Integrated health and environmental risk assessments;
	Strategies for controlling and managing air pollutants.

To address the challenge related to the interdisciplinary nature of air pollution and its impact on human health, academics from a number of Faculties within QUT are involved with the programs undertaken by the ILAQH, including discipline areas such as: physics, chemistry, microbiology, mathematics, public health and engineering. The expertise of the ILAQH personnel is strengthened by close collaboration with a number of government and non-government organizations. Through joint research, lecturing and postgraduate student supervision, the ILAQH collaborates closely with a number of North American, European and Asian research and tertiary organizations.

The facility is equipped with state of the art instrumentation for aerosol generation, mass and number size classification; monitoring of atmospheric gases; real time biological studies; radioactivity studies, vehicle emission testing, filter testing, lung deposition studies, and computer modelling. Access to electron microscopy and analytical chemistry facilities is available through the links existing within the Faculty of Science.

ILAQH has built up a scientific program, which is recognised internationally through a high publication rate in reputable international journals, visits by scholars from around the world to the facility, and invitations to the ILAQH key researchers to address international conferences and participate in international initiatives. In Australia both the Queensland State and the Federal government and non-government organizations regularly seek the expertise of this facility.

In March 2004 ILAQH obtained status of a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organisation on Research and Training in the field of Global Burden of Disease due to Air Pollution.

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International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health