Raphael E Arku, ScD

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

#Happening
@AIMS_Next in collaboration with @REMA_Rwanda is hosting a half-day event at the Grand Legacy Hotel with two agendas: Climate Change in our daily lives and launching the Kigali City Framework for Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Study Campaign.

[Rwanda Environment Management Authority @REMA_Rwanda]

The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences @AIMS_Next and the Rwanda Environment Management Authority @REMA_Rwanda are now launching the Kigali City Framework for Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Campaign

#GreenRwanda🇷🇼🌿| #BeatAirPollution

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

"Air Pollution is a silent killer and the models can be used to support mitigation policies, health and climate impact assessments. This initiative will foster multi-institutional partnership and capacity building," Prof Raphael Arku, @UMassAmherst.

#KigalCityNoiseandAirQuality.

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

"Each of us must be more conscious of environmental issues and willing to take some simple steps to save the Planet, we can make a huge contribution," @HakizimanaLydie, CEO, @AIMS_Next

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

"The second take-home message is that A Clean Environment Is Essential for Healthy Living: The more we don't care about our environment, the more it will become polluted with contaminants and toxins that have a harmful impact on our health," she adds

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

"The first take-home is that we are responsible for our impact on the environment & minimising the damage we do to the planet. Dear participants, for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change," @HakizimanaLydie, @AIMS_Next, CEO.

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

"The Research team at AIMS, you are unsung heroes. The world-class research you are doing will change this continent and the generation to come," @HakizimanaLydie, @AIMS_Next CEO.

[AIMS RWANDA @AIMS_Rwanda]

#TBThursday
@AIMS_Next in collaboration with @REMA_Rwanda
recently launched the Kigali City Framework for Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Campaign that will see over 13 sensors installed across #Kigali to monitor the level of air and noise pollution.
👉https://t.co/aZeSiBhjhb.

[Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities @Pathways2Equity]

We also show that our analysis can track the progress of urban planning decisions, policies, and interventions, through a case study of how activities, and mobility changed in different neighbourhoods of Accra during the COVID-19 lockdown.

[Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities @Pathways2Equity]

We discuss how these insights can inform planning and #policy decisions for making Accra, and other cities in Africa, from a #transport, #pollution, #sanitation and #livelihood perspective as they expand and develop

[Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities @Pathways2Equity]

New paper alert! What we can see in the urban environment around us provides a wealth of information on social, environmental & mobility factors impacting urban health. But these visual cues are currently an untapped resource🏙️ @sierraclark2 @ThickNavyRain
https://t.co/vuM8bCZE9i

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Has been one heck of a journey working on this paper with @ThickNavyRain @mathwis_emily and many @Pathways2Equity colleagues! So glad it is finally out :) And for those interested in the approach, the code/guides to be published on the Pathways website (🙌 Ricky)

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Image-based estimation models work better when transferring between cities that share similar sources of pollution. This has important implications as an appealing promise of using street imagery for air pollution estimation is its potential for scaling globally at a low cost

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Model performances were high and comparable to traditional land-use regression and dispersion models when training and testing images from the same city. 🧵

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Paper published in @RemoteSens_MDPI wonderfully led by Esra Suel 🧵

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Can #streetviewimagery predict #airpollution in #London, #Vancouver & NYC? Are these models transferable to Hong Kong & #Accra? @EsraSuel & co from @ImperialSPH @UBC NASA et al answer these Qs in new paper https://t.co/yHOBZyWhpE. Happy to have contributed a small part to this 🧵

[The JPB Environmental Health Fellowship Program @JPBfellows]

Our workshop continues. Today's morning session: Trends in Social Media! Thanks to @scurwood @kassthefish and @Tykee_James, and to @The_EcoTok presenters: @BrownGirl_Green and @queerbrownvegan

[Raphael E Arku, ScD @raphazi1]

Important findings!

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

We found a reduction in #PM25 pollution when compared with a decade ago, but the present levels still exceed local and international public health guidelines by ∼2–4 folds

[Raphael E Arku, ScD @raphazi1]

Great job @abosedealli and @sierraclark2

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Our new @Pathways2Equity paper ERL led by @allliabosede is finally published! Spatiotemporal descriptive results from a large-scale high resolution measurement campaign of PM2.5 and #BlackCarbon in the city of #Accra, #Ghana

[Raphael E Arku, ScD @raphazi1]

Nice work

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Working on some #SciComm here!To disseminate the results from my recent paper on #noisepollution in #Accra #Ghana, I created a web platform (#R & #Github) with interactive and animated content! Check it out and let me know what you think :) https://t.co/XcQ9WGjGjO