Prof Daniel Pope BSc(hons) MSc PhD MFPH

Energy, Air Pollution and Health Research Theme.

Understanding the burden of household air pollution in relation to maternal and child health.
- Systematic review and meta-analyses (SRMA) defining health burden from HAP on child acute lower respiratory illness, child mortality, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and lung cancer. SRMA dissemination used to inform the comparative risk assessment for HAP for the Global Burden of Disease Study (2010) and future iterations of GBD.
- Lead analyst for maternal health outcomes for RESPIRE-Guatemala, the first ever randomised controlled trial of an improved cookstove. Defined exposure-response relationship between HAP and maternal lung function.

Energy, Air Pollution and Health Research Theme.

Interventions to burn biomass/ solid fuels cleaner.
- Co-led intervention based before-and-after studies in Nepal, Sudan and Kenya investigating impacts of improved cooking interventions on levels of HAP (particulate matter and carbon monoxide) with Practical Action.
- Lead analyst for maternal health outcomes for RESPIRE-Guatemala, the first ever randomised controlled trial of an improved cookstove. Defined exposure-response relationship between HAP and maternal lung function.
- Co-investigator on the CAPS-Malawi trial, the largest randomised controlled trial of an advanced combustion cookstove investigating the impact on child ALRI of associated reductions in HAP.
- Systematic review and meta-analysis work summarising all field based intervention studies of improved cooking interventions, comparing intervention impacts against WHO Air Quality Guideline levels.

Clean fuel interventions.
- Co-led health component of a World Bank funded intervention study in Madagascar estimating the impact of an ethanol stove intervention on levels of HAP and acute health outcomes.

Energy, Air Pollution and Health Research Theme.

Development of WHO Indoor Air Quality Guidelines (IAQG) for Household Fuel Combustion
- As core member of the Guideline Development Committee, led systematic review and meta-analysis work inform guidelines in relation to health impacts, intervention impacts, burns and scaling adoption of improved cookstoves and cleaner fuels to address burden.

Implementation of WHO IAQG to reduce the Global Burden of Disease from HAP
- Principal Investigator for the LPG Adoption in Cameroon Evaluation (LACE) studies, investigating how best to scale equitable adoption and sustained use of Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) as a clean fuel to reduce HAP and improve health.
- Leading research modelling climate and health impacts of policy driven increased adoption of LPG in Cameroon.
- Testing practical interventions to assist communities to transition from solid fuel to LPG in Cameroon including micro-finance and cooking interventions).