Interviewer: Adam Levy

This is Jen Burney, one of the authors of this week’s paper.

Interviewee: Jen Burney

So, we look at sub-Saharan Africa in this study and that stands out for having very little data really on how much damage air pollution is causing.

Interviewer: Adam Levy

Jen and her colleagues set out to fill in some of the gaps to understand how air pollution affects infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. But there’s a reason the health effects of air pollution are studied so little in this region – there just isn’t as much on-the-ground air quality data as in, say, Western Europe. To get around this the team used remote sensing, teasing apart observations from satellites to estimate the air quality at ground level. They then gathered 65 surveys that capture household health. Carefully combining these two datasets allowed the team to compute the link between the deaths of infants and air pollution.

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