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Community Air Quality Monitoring, Russell Zerbo, Karl Koerner, Joseph Minott, Jonathan C. Li

Student Papers, Posters & Projects

Research Goals & Questions

What’s missing? / Overarching goal:

• Despite improving air quality as reported in the 2017 Community Health Assessment, asthma is still a major health problem in Philadelphia with some low-income communities affected significantly more than others.
• In North and West Philadelphia where child asthma hospitalization rates are highest, there is a lack of air monitors in these affected communities.
• Thus, the air quality information that is recorded on the city’s air monitors may not accurately reflect the air quality in these areas of Philadelphia with high asthma rates.

Questions:

1. Does ground level air quality differ in underserved …