DorothyLsoto

Air quality scientist

[DorothyLsoto @Dorothydora7]

🤷🏿‍♀️@Winnie_Byanyima a curious scientist

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@nbstv @IreneNalumu Share a number please

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@RealBeaMao How didn’t K’la see this leader?🥲

[Global Goals @GlobalGoalsUN]

#AirPollution in the form of fine particulate matter or PM2.5, can lead to:
🔸 strokes
🔸 diabetes
🔸 heart diseases
🔸 lung cancer
🔸 respiratory diseases
It also impacts pre and neonatal health.
📌 https://t.co/y5Vf5Fbddu

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Did you know #AirPollution is the second biggest risk for noncommunicable diseases?

Here's why you should care:
🛑 Individual actions are great but they aren't enough. Most pollution sources are beyond our control.
💡 Policy-makers hold the key to change, not just individuals!
🌱 Sustainable energy, better transport, smarter cities – we need it all!

📢 Let's demand better air quality from our leaders!

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

99% of us breathe polluted air. ⚠️ Let’s take action!

Here's how you can reduce your air pollution footprint:

🚴 Walk or cycle more
🔋 Switch to energy-efficient appliances
♻️ Dispose waste responsibly
🚌 Choose public transport or electric vehicles
☀️ Use renewable energy
🍲 Switch to clean cooking methods
🏞️ Advocate for green spaces

Let's make cleaner air and healthier populations a reality.

https://t.co/inETIvkZxE

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

Clean Air Shouldn't Be a Luxury.  ⚠️

Did you know the most deprived communities breathe the most polluted air? 🌍💨

Where you live shouldn't determine your health. But right now, it does.

Socioeconomic status, age, and ethnicity all play a role in who suffers the most.

Time to take action and tackle this unfairness.

[AirQo @AirQoProject]

Women at the forefront for #CleanAir. This #IWD, we celebrate women inspiring change and driving efforts in research, policy, health, community action, and data analysis for #cleanair. #AccelerateAction #IWD2025

[DorothyLsoto @Dorothydora7]

The most serene moment from last year was visiting the White House, among other things😊

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Expert concerned at the poor quality of air - YouTube https://t.co/Oew6aaQkiu

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I took this interview early this year. Things are only getting worse. Act now to reduce climate pollutants and cut emissions – expert | Monitor. https://t.co/QjQG4GYmIg

[Angelo Izama @Opiaiya]

Air quality in Kampala today worse than Beijing and Seoul. That’s the announcement. Good morning.

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@Hashim11 https://t.co/XrVmMfuken

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The Breath of Colonialism Continues to Taint the Air in Uganda https://t.co/lMigWE6Zxa

[DorothyLsoto @Dorothydora7]

@Hashim11 I am more than happy to lead this. Actually if anyone of you would love to garner around this let’s talk. Am putting together something around this and will need everyone who is available, and ready to push policy on Kampala pollution.

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The Breath of Colonialism Continues to Taint the Air in Uganda https://t.co/lMigWE6Zxa

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@SpireJim 🤦🏿‍♀️ embarrassing is an understatement to be called a Ugandan

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@TimKalyegira Not so much in Kololo and Nakasero (white settlement). To your research catalog add. Drawing white elephants in Africa by Byerley, The Diaries of Lugard, The Planning of Kampala city 1903-1962 by Omolo-Okalebo. Am also happy to introduce you to the subject experts.

[DorothyLsoto @Dorothydora7]

@TimKalyegira Today we have no sewer systems and the list can go on, @TimKalyegira because of the British plans. My work on air quality in K’la shows that because of the British Colonial-era urban plans, the worst air quality is not surprisingly in what was the African settlements

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@TimKalyegira Justified by contemporary public health theories. British, Asian and “no planned settlement for Africans”. African blood was believed to have malaria hence the golf course to keep them separate from the superior race. Today we have slums because of those plans.

[DorothyLsoto @Dorothydora7]

@TimKalyegira First plans 1884/1885 by Kabaka Mwanga II (very organized, nothing the Europeans had ever seen). The planning period that later followed in K’la between 1919-1930 led by W. J. Simpson of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, was founded on racist ideologies.