The CLEAN-Air Forum, 2025, Nairobi: Annual Africa Clean Air Forum Nairobi, Kenya, July 15-17, 2025

Call for Abstracts: Overview

The CLEAN-Air Forum is an annual convening for the communities of practice in Africa and serves as a platform for knowledge sharing, collaborations, multi-regional partnerships, and networks to tackle air pollution in African cities. The 2025 forum will be held in East Africa, Nairobi, Kenya from 15th-17th July. This year’s theme Partnerships for Clean Air Solutions seeks to strengthen cross-border transdisciplinary partnerships, evidence generation and capacity for advancing clean air solutions in Africa.

The programme committee welcomes abstract submissions for podium, poster presentations and exhibitions on the following topics

1. Air Quality Monitoring, including deployment of networks, data analysis using modelling and machine learning, and data sharing
2. Sectoral contributions: can include scientific data, source apportionment, case studies on different sectors such as transport, waste, energy, agriculture, and industry
3. Remote sensing/satellite retrievals for assessment of air quality
4. Health effects of air pollution
5. Household air pollution
6. Use of citizen science in air quality and public awareness
7. Air quality management and regulation
8. Future air pollution scenarios/challenges
9. Exhibition on clean air actions and innovation

Submission Guidelines

Abstract preparation: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words in English and should include 3-5 keywords  

Co-author approval: Ensure that all co-authors approve the abstract and its potential presentation.

Abstract review: Abstracts will be reviewed by the programme committee, and acceptance notifications emailed to corresponding authors 

Selection Criteria

1. Relevance to the CLEAN-Air Forum and sessions
2. Abstracts that include a mix of authors and those that include collaboration with experts affiliated with institutions in Africa will be preferred
3. Submissions with new scientific data are encouraged
4. Accepted abstracts not selected for podium presentation will be automatically recommended for poster presentations
5. Exhibitions should demonstrate relevance to air quality and clean air actions

Please reach out to Deo Okure (dokure@airqo.net) or Pallavi Pant (ppant@healtheffects.org) for additional information or questions.