Webinar: Launch of AirQ+ Spanish version

Maria Neira, Director Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health, WHO
Dr. Maria Neira is since 2005, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO). Prior to WHO, she was Vice Minister of Health and Consumer Affairs in Spain, President of the Spanish Food Safety and Nutrition Agency and she obtained extensive field experience in Africa as a Public Health Adviser.  

Karla Cervantes-Martinez, Technical consultant, WHO 
Dr Karla Cervantes-Martinez is a technical consultant at the WHO Environment, Climate Change and Health Department in Geneva, where she primarily leads estimates of SDG 3.9.1 Mortality rate attributed to air pollution. She also supports activities related the global air quality database; as well as the generation of training materials and technical advice on air pollution epidemiology. Prior to joining the WHO, she had scientific training on Public Health and Environmental Health, focused on epidemiological cohort studies for the evaluation of chronic health effects and air pollution exposure models.

Pierpaolo Mudu, Technical officer, WHO
Dr Pierpaolo Mudu is a technical officer working for WHO-EURO Environment and Health Center in Bonn, Germany. He also collaborates with the WHO Headquarters in Geneva. His most recent works include the coordination of AirQ+, the software that calculates the impacts of air pollution on health, several impact assessments of environmental policy interventions in various countries and cities, and the development of the case studies both inside and outside Europe.

Juan José Castillo, Regional Air Quality Advisor, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) 
Mtro Juan José Castillo is a Regional Air Quality Advisor at the Pan American Health Organization. He works delivering technical cooperation to health officers in the Americas and the Caribbean to build capacities towards addressing the air pollution burden of disease. Juan has +14 years’ experience in the environmental public health field. He has worked as an Executive Director in international nonprofit organizations, faculty and researcher, and as public officer in transport, environment and health. He has working experience in the private sector.  Juan leads the development of the AirQ+ Regional Expert Group for Latin America and the Caribbean, a working group with over 100 experts from more than 15 countries fostering the use of AirQ+ to support decision-making processes in the region. Juan studied Environmental Engineering and holds a master’s degree in environmental management.

Stephanie Montero, Clean Air Institute
Dr. Stephanie Montero is a medical surgeon, Master in Global Health and Development from University College London in the United Kingdom, and Master in Local Development and Multilateral Cooperation from the University Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain. Since September 2022, Dr. Montero has been a part of the Clean Air Institute team as an expert in air quality and health. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the Project Coordinator for Air Quality and Health at the General Directorate of Air Quality of the Ministry of the Environment of Mexico City. From 2015 to 2018, she worked as the Director of Environmental Health at the Ministry of Sustainable Development of the State of Morelos.

Horacio Riojas-Rodríguez, Director de Salud Ambietal, INPS-México
Dr Horacio Riojas-Rodriguez has been the Director of Environmental Health at the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico for 20 years, which is a collaborating center of the Pan American Health Organization / WHO. In the academic field, he is a recognized researcher in Medical Sciences, leader of the research line on Health and Environment at INSP-Mexico. He has more than 100 scientific publications in indexed journals and is a professor of master’s and doctorate courses at the School of Public Health of Mexico.

Cristina Vert, Technical consultant, WHO
Dr Cristina Vert is a technical consultant at the WHO Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in Geneva. She collaborates in the Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit, as well as the Policies and Interventions for Health and Environment Unit. She has recently led the coordination and development of the Directory of resources for planning healthy environments, together with UN-Habitat. She also provides support to the WHO project to expand actions on environment, climate change and health in countries. Her training covers environmental sciences, public health and environmental epidemiology.