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Health Minister Nicola Blackwood has announced up to £56 million funding for research into the biggest challenges facing public health - climate change, air pollution, antimicrobial resistance and global pandemics.
A new report published in The Lancet has revealed that all forms of pollution are linked with 9 million deaths worldwide in 2015 alone. Air pollution was responsible for more than two thirds of these deaths.