The 3rd in our series of air pollution and climate change patient conferences.
Join us on Thursday 19 February 2026 from 10:00 to 15:30 CET for our Breathe Clean Air Patient Conference, where we explore the health impact of indoor air pollution. This event is part of our ongoing efforts to raise awareness of steps we can take to improve air quality.
At this conference, you will:
More information will be available soon.
Phil has lived with asthma for over 60 years. He has experience in public health research with the National Institute for Health Research as an Assistant Director and has volunteered as a patient representative for Asthma UK.
Phil has worked alongside the British Thoracic Society, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network to produce UK guidelines on diagnosing, monitoring and managing asthma.
Barbara Hoffmann is a Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf in Germany. Her research focuses on the investigation of acute and chronic cardiopulmonary, metabolic, and neurological health effects of air pollution and noise. She is also a founding member and past Chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology Europe (ISEE) Chapter.
Ulrike Gehring is the Chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Environment and Health Committee. She is also an Associate Professor at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Her research focusses on the impact of the environment on child health, with a special focus on the long-term health effects of ambient air pollution and the determinants of asthma and allergies.
This conference will be held in English, with live transcription and subtitles available in multiple languages. For all language options, please check here: https://www.wordly.ai/translator-languages
Watch the recordings from our previous events below.
ELF does not charge for its events and materials. We want to make sure they are available to anybody who wishes to join or use them. To ensure we can keep doing this we ask that those who can afford to pay to make a donation. We are grateful to everyone who supports us in this way and helps lung health patients to understand more about their condition and have their voices heard.
