A profile
Kalpana Balakrishnan works at the intersection of air pollution, exposure assessment and public health policy in India and internationally.
She leads the WHO collaborating centre for occupational and environmental health in Chennai, at the Sri Ramachandra Institute. Her research examines how people in low and middle income countries are exposed to air pollution and chemical hazards, and how that evidence can inform policy.
She has taken part in major international assessments of air quality and disease burden, and in national work on air pollution and health in India.
At ISEE 2019 she was one of six plenary speakers, speaking on exposure science and the path from measurement to cleaner air.
Profile note This summary was prepared for the archive from the public 2019 speaker listing.
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