Professor Frank Kelly heads the environmental research group, a new global centre within the medical faculty of Imperial College London’s White City campus in Hammersmith and Fulham, studying how dirty air affects people’s health.
Recently made CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to air pollution research in The King’s New Year Honours list, Kelly is a key player in H&F Council’s Better Air, Better Health partnership.
Together with Imperial College London and the NHS Health Trust, the alliance works to demonstrate how we can clean the air we breathe via cleaner energy, Tiny Forest planting and the installation of Britain’s densest network of EV charging points across the borough.
Prof Kelly, 66, is frequently on TV and radio discussing air quality, particularly in London, and whether electric cars, congestion charges and ultra-low emission zones are the answer to city pollution.
He has spent 30 years studying the toxic effects of car exhaust fumes and wood smoke on lungs which is the type of pollution that causes seven million premature deaths worldwide every year.
He also pioneered the use of social media and mobile phone technology, designing the LondonAir website which gives free, real-time data on air quality to boroughs including H&F.
