Dust and Health: Challenges and Solutions

Dr. Al-Dousari is a senior researcher at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), where he as a dust specialist conducts scientific projects and researches tackling Land degradation and rehabilitation Flood management, Aeolian and fluvial landforms and dust fallout, mobile sand, and dust control measures, water harvesting techniques soil sealing and compaction. Al-Dousari has received many awards and recognitions for his research activities (The Wildlife Award from the Arabian Gulf Cooperation Council; the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Best Arab researchers, the State Incentive Award, and the Best Arab Book Award in the field of environment), and acts as Kuwait’s representation active member within Committee of Science and Technology (CST) in United Nation Committee for Compacting Desertification-UNCCD (2016–2019), and in many local, regional and global scientific committees. Al-Dousari wrote a lot of scientific books tackling dust as a phenomenon, and now is acting as a reviewer and editor in many scientific journals. Al-Dousari receives his Ph.D. in geology from the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL).

Dr. Muhammad Zaffar Hashmi is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Chemistry at COMSATS University Islamabad Campus, Pakistan. Dr. Hashmi works in multiple fields (waters, soil, air, and health-related issues), and has expertise in developing environmentally sustainable and feasible technologies.