DATES: December 6 - 20, 2021DURATION: 15 hoursPLATFORMS: Moodle and Zoom
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the world's greatest environmental risk to health: it kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. Over 91 per cent of us live in areas where air pollution exceeds the guidelines considered to be safe; nine out of 10 people breathe polluted air each day; and 4.2 million premature deaths occur each year as a result of exposure to air pollution. The State of Global Air Report, 2020 says it is the fourth leading risk factor for early deaths worldwide. In fact, more than 90 per cent of the world’s children breathe toxic air every day.
While governments and countries across the world acknowledge this deadly killer and its potential to wreak havoc and reel off statistics, it is critical to understand the numbers and what they really tell us – only then can we communicate effectively about the state of the air we breathe, the scale of the problem or its key causes, the health and societal impacts, and what actions are needed to control it. Evidence-based communication, using data, is key to informing air quality interventions and saving lives.
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), one of South Asia’s leading think tanks on the politics of development, environment and climate change, invites you to join its Global Online Training Programme which focuses specifically on one critical aspect of meeting this challenge: understanding air pollution and health data, analysing it, and using it to communicate and tell stories on the urgency of this “environmental and health crisis”.
The programme is designed to inform about established as well as new trends and approaches in data-driven development communications for effective presentation and maximum impact. It will also introduce popular analytical tools and conceptual frameworks, and offer insights into the legal framework and politics to better understand numbers on air pollution, health and economy.
What will you learn?
Who can attend?
COURSE STRUCTURE
The self-paced online programme will have video lectures, presentations, tutorials, quizzes and assignments. Participants will also get an opportunity to work on an in-depth project of their choice. The programme will also have three live interactive sessions for meeting the trainers and fellow participants.
The programme has been designed in such a way that it can be completed along with a regular job or study.
The course is broken down into five modules:
All those who attend and complete the course will be assessed by the course coordination team. CSE and AAETI will award Certificates of Participation to all those who attend and complete the course.
COURSE DIRECTOR
Kiran Pandey Programme director, Information Management, CSE Email: kiran@cseindia.orgPhone: +91-9871215338
COURSE COORDINATOR
Susan Chacko Manager, Information Management, CSE Email: susan@cseindia.org
Anumita Roychowdhury Executive Director - Research and Advocacy and head of the air pollution and clean transportation programme, campaigns for clean air and public health, Centre for Science and Environment. Email : anumita@cseindia.org
Shambhavi Shukla Deputy Programme Manager, Right to Clean Air Campaign, CSE Email : shambhavi@cseindia.org
Richard Mahapatra Managing Editor of Down To Earth magazine. Has been reporting from and on rural India for the past two decades. Email : richard@cseindia.org
Debadatta Basu joined Central Pollution Control Board in 1976 after completing Master of Science in Chemistry from West Bengal, India. He further obtained Diploma in Environmental Science and Technology (equivalent to MS) from Delft University, the Netherlands. He also did his PhD from Jadavpur University. He was resource person for a workshop on UN sponsored programme on Universal Codification at Johanesburg, South Africa. He has published around thirty technical documents and papers in various journals in India and abroad. After retiring from Central Government, he joined Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi as an advisor for training in India and abroad. Email : basu@cseindia.org
Rajit Sengupta Has close to 10 years of experience in working on editorial teams of national newspapers and magazines including Mail Today and Hindustan Times. Currently, with Down To Earth magazine and a member of CSE’s Environment Data Centre, which churns out data stories, factsheets and interactives and conducts workshops on data journalism. Email : rajit@cseindia.org
Kiran Pandey Programme Director of the Environment Resources Unit at CSE. With over two decades of experience in documentation and communication services, leads the India Environment Portal and CSE’s Environment Data Centre. Author of the annual book “State of India’s Environment: In Figures”, the country's most authoritative annual publication to make a statement on the state of environment through data analysis and meaningful infographics. Promotes digital literacy and data-driven communications in India, Asia and Africa Email: kiran@cseindia.org
Vivek Chattopadhyaya is engaged in right to clean air campaign of Centre for Science and Environment. He is a programme manager.
