Local Environmental Measures Can Make a Change for Health Magnus Svartengren, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, speaks at CleanMed Europe on May 30. There exists a great knowledge of how a polluted environment impacts human health, and it is constantly growing. However, transforming this knowledge into concrete measures is not always as easy, especially not on a local level. The question "What should we do about it?" too often remains unanswered. In Stockholm County, this question was addressed by a group of researchers and experts at the Centre for Public Health of the Stockholm County Council, resulting in a list of the 10 most important local environmental measures to improve public health. One of these experts was Magnus Svartengren. He is Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. Svartengren is also Consultant and Head of unit for Environmental medicine, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at Stockholm Centre for Public Health. He acts as Presenting physician (environmental medicine) on the National Board of Health and Welfare, and he has over 90 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. Furthermore, Prof. Svartengren has written a number of book chapters in the fields of environmental medicine and respiratory disease. He is also member of the steering committee for the Swedish Twin registry, and Member of Expert panel for Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Environment. Svartengren focus on exposure related clinical effects, the effect modification from differences in sensitivity and their consequences for sustainable occupational and environmental health. Factors governing sensitivity and their health consequences are studied in children and adults. He has an interest in gender related differences in symptom diagnostics and consequences. He is involved in research project regarding gender differences in effects from asthma on pulmonary function in Children within the BAMSE cohort. In the same cohort we look for effects from air pollution on development of pulmonary function. Other projects cover the interaction between air pollution (smoking) and genetic factors in the development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), uptake and elimination of inhaled ultrafine combustion particles, as well as short term exposure studies in road tunnel environment and subway systems. At CleanMed Europe, Magnus Svartengren will present the project of identifying the 10 most important environmental measures to improve public health. He will account for the environmental problems that impacts people's health in Stockholm the most, and address the costs that these mean for society. Prof. Svartengren's lecture is an example of how environmental knowledge can be transformed into concrete measures on a local level, and hence make a difference.