Air Aware Labs gets kitted out

Welcome to the sixtieth edition of our newsletter, as we review our latest product launch and continue to help users find their way around the new AirTrack features. We are very excited about our work at the London Marathon this weekend! This newsletter is aimed at investors, collaborators, future hires and early adopters of our products.

Like everyone working in air pollution, we regularly refer to the statistic of 8 million deaths worldwide. But it's easy to forget what this really means - what it's made up of and how it compares to other threats to health. So we have broken it down here. For example, the biggest single risk is cardiovascular (not respiratory, as many may believe). And the annual mortality is around double what the world saw at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is for these reasons and more that we are bringing tools to protect health! Please join us on our mission - Personalising Air Quality, for everyone.

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Hot off the press

• we are so excited about the London Marathon this weekend! We are providing data and insights for elites and then on Sunday we will be part of the Green Team start line. Good luck to everyone running!
• we've launched our pilot with London Legacy Development Corporation. Over the next two months we will work with the team to test our latest AirTrack product and how it can work both for individuals to reduce exposure to pollution and for the organisation's goals
• as part of our investment strategy, we have joined Playfair Female Founded Office hours and pitched in the SIA - Startup Investor Accelerator.

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Go with us towards clean air

• we have been working with MSc students from UCL as part of their work on behavioural change - requests for survey completion and 1-1 interviews will be coming out and we'd love to see lots of feedback for these students
• we have opened a poll about what colours we use to present data - this will be open for another week so please respond!
• we continue to be amazed by all the support we get from far and wide. Big shout outs to Sam Weller David Bent Martha Chamberlin Kaja Milczewska Mack Barnhardt Nicola de Wever Veron Duberry Lucy Marlow Abigail Whitehouse Pavan Konanur Teodora Georgieva Edmund Zhi Peng Cheng Ben Brabyn Aarsh Batra William Chapman PhD James Cuddy Kathryn Ore Henry Keeys Alan Furley Sarah King Emma Williams Lotte Witbreuk Leo Tyson Chris Hagerbaumer. We hope you'll all continue with us towards clean air.

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Meet the team

This edition, we are re-introducing William Hicks, our Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder. Will says: "Carrying out scientific research at Air Aware Labs is unique. We’re in a position to drive impact by both generating new insights whilst encouraging healthy behaviour change. One of the most exciting aspects of my CSO role is the freedom to build and analyse datasets at a global scale, capturing 24/7 exposure and physiological factors.

"So far, our research has focused on health equity in England and the planning process with a paper under review, but we’re also investigating plenty of other topics to do with air quality, sports and health outcomes.Alongside this, we’ve been collaborating with a range of universities and departments to strengthen AirTrack and provide a tool that researchers need. While it’s very rewarding to be hands-on in lots of these projects, I’m also looking forward to the point where researchers are using AirTrack independently as a standard tool in their work."

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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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