Air Aware Labs addresses women's health

Welcome to the seventy-second edition of our newsletter, as we launch more AirTrack features and progress our work on pregnancy and pollution exposure! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

Women are disproportionately and differently affected by air pollution, whether as a result of lifestyle differences or physiology. In particular, during pregnancy there are multiple risk factors for both women and unborn child. But the impact is also seen in more severe asthma cases, propensity to dementia and fertility challenges, to name a few. Therefore we were pleased this week to take part in a major women's health conference and connect our data, insights and solutions with others building in women's health. Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• we've had a lot of exciting product launches for AirTrack! Our long-term analytics are now available and we have shown them in action here. And we've gone from test to launch of our AirCoach chat feature in less than a week
• our women's health work is taking shape, having onboarded our new women's health adviser Ana Luiza Savi, MSc and made some great connections at Women's Health Week. Watch this space for further updates on our project with UCL on air pollution exposure and pregnancy
• and finally, we launched this blog post with LAPS: Life After Professional Sport.

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Go with us towards clean air

• we've been creating videos to help bring our product to life. Can you share our latest demo with contacts in fitness, health or active travel?
• we are about to start a round of user engagement and feedback on our AirTrack score. There is still time to get involved!
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Garance Locatelli Paul Nwachukwu Ann Rosecrance Gina Lovett Ana Cavez Holly Woodford Lauren Smith OLY Ian Rummels Barney Weston Amanda Nolen Paul Essery Anna Abdelnoor 💡 Richard Perry Nina van Schaick Ana Luiza Savi, MSc Alison Paul Shawn K. Sullivan Laudelino Javier Sánchez de León Linares Ohad Zivan John Adeojo Lijana Lily Mitrijevaite Ben Brabyn Aarsh Batra Tom Eldred Diana Gabrielyan Kristy Ebanks Jason Loo. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the partner

We have started a series of introductions to our key partners. This edition we are meeting Laura Horsfall, Principal Investigator for our project on pollution and pregnancy at UCL. Laura says: "I am a Principal Research Fellow at UCL's Institute of Health Informatics and a Wellcome Career Development Award holder in Environmental Epidemiology. My research links large-scale health and environmental datasets to understand how air pollution affects health across the population, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups.

"I am collaborating with Air Aware Labs to explore how the AirTrack app could be adapted to support pregnant women in reducing their exposure to air pollution in everyday life. The project involves co-design workshops with pregnant women to understand their needs and preferences, with the aim of developing a pregnancy-specific version of AirTrack that is evidence-based, user-centred, and genuinely useful during pregnancy."

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Get in touch

Please follow Air Aware Labs to stay in touch with our progress. If anything in this newsletter has piqued your interest, please send me (Louise Thomas) or William Hicks a message! You can also email us at hello@airawarelabs.com

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