International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (ILAQH)

Queensland University of Technology

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ILAQH undertakes research, postgraduate training and consultancy in the complex, interdisciplinary field of air quality and its impact on human health, with a specific focus on ultrafine and nanoparticles. The three main aspects of ILAQH research activities are: comprehensive characterisation of indoor and outdoor air, including emission sources; integrated health and environmental risk assessments; and strategies for controlling and managing air pollutants.

Website https://www.qut.edu.au/research/our-research/institutes-centres-and-research-groups/international-laboratory-for-air-quality-and-health

Key science sectors

• Environment and nature
• Health and medical
• Life sciences
• Transport

Strengths and capabilities

• Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization
• air quality, exposure and risk assessment
• association between asthma and fine particles
• bioaerosols
• characterisation of emissions from motor vehicles and vehicle emission factors
• deposition of particles in the human respiratory tract
• emissions from biomass burning
• indoor residential, hospital and workplace exposure to particles
• modelling of particles and gaseous pollutants behaviour
• performance of nebulisers for drug treatment

Facilities and major equipment

• air monitoring station
• bioaerosol unit
• chemical analysis unit
• state of the art instrumentation for aerosol generation
• mass and number size classification
• monitoring of atmospheric gases;
• real time biological studies
• vehicle emission testing
• lung deposition studies
• computer modelling

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

M Block, Gardens Point Campus, 2 George St, Brisbane QLD 4000

Organisation type

• University Research Centre