SENSINAIR low-cost sensors as a tool to reduce air pollution on nursery and primary schools: impact on childhood Asthma

• Grant number: 19/04564-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: May 01, 2019
• End date: October 31, 2021
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Agreement: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
• Principal Investigator: Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva
• Grantee: Samirys Sara Rodrigues Cirqueira
• Host Institution: Instituto de Estudos Avançados (IEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/09011-9 - Low-cost sensors as a tool to reduce air pollution on nursery and primary schools - impact on childhood asthma, AP.R

Abstract

Recent studies concluded that there is a pressing need to implement strategies to improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in nurseries/primary schools. Hence, providing schools with tools to measure/alert air pollutants' levels to make them self-sufficient to reduce Indoor Air Pollution (IAP) is vital and enables the mitigation of related health impacts. So, the use of low-cost sensors arise as a new strategic tool to measure IAQ in schools. As far as known, there are no publications on IAQ assessment using low-cost sensors on nurseries/primary schools. Thus, this project aims to develop tools to help schools to reduce IAP and assess its effective reduction and of its impact on childhood Asthma. It is expected to: 1) validate and calibrate low-cost sensors for IAQ monitoring providing schools with tools to effectively reduce IAP; 2) develop IAP exposure models; and 3) assess the impact of IAP reduction on childhood Asthma as well as provide an early Asthma diagnosis (children > 3 years). (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RODRIGUES CIRQUEIRA, SAMIRYS SARA; RODRIGUES, PATRICIA FERRINI; BRANCO, PEDRO; VORMITTAG, EVANGELINA; NUNES, RAFAEL; BOAS ANASTACIO, ANDRESSA VILAS; VERAS, MARIANA; SOUSA, SOFIA; NASCIMENTO SALDIVA, PAULO HILARIO. Heterogeneous impacts of mobility restrictions on air quality in the State of Sao Paulo during the COVID-19 pandemic. Environmental Pollution, v. 300, p. 11-pg., 2022-05-01. (17/06670-9, 18/09011-9, 19/04564-2)

EVANGELINA DA MOTTA P. A. DE ARAÚJO VORMITTAG; SAMIRYS SARA RODRIGUES CIRQUEIRA; HÉLIO WICHER NETO; PAULO HILÁRIO N. SALDIVA. Análise do monitoramento da qualidade do ar no Brasil. Estudos avançados, v. 35, n. 102, p. 7-30, 2021-08-23. (19/04564-2)