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Indian Institute of Technology Delhi — Air Quality Sensors in South Asia

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  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Focus Area: South Asian Air Quality
  • Organization Name: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
  • Amount: $228,000

  • Award Date: February 2021

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    Grant investigators: Zachary Robinson and Alexander Berger

    This page was reviewed but not written by the grant investigators. IIT Delhi staff also reviewed this page prior to publication.


    Open Philanthropy recommended a grant of $228,000 over three years to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) to collaborate with the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) and Professor Joshua Apte of UC Berkeley to install a network of low-cost air quality sensors in South Asia and conduct research and policy outreach on their use. The area that the air quality sensors will monitor has some of the worst air quality in the world. IIT Delhi, CEEW, and Professor Apte intend to use the data they collect from the air quality sensors to inform policies that address air pollution in South Asia.

    This falls within our focus area of global health and development. For more about our strategy in this area, read our South Asian air quality cause report.

    The grant amount was updated in December 2022

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