The environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program-Community Edition (Ben MAP-CE) is a newly developed PC-based and open-source tool developed by the U.S. EPA to quantify the health impacts and economic value of air quality changes. Originally released in the Fall of 2013, this new version replaces a proprietary version that the Agency and outside stakeholders relied upon for over 10 years to support policy decisions.
Ben MAP-CE contains a user-modifiable database that comes pre-installed with a full suite of health impact functions, population projections, baseline health, air quality and economic value estimates for the U.S. and China. The program now also incorporates air quality, population and baseline health data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) project, enabling analysts to assess the avoided deaths associated with user-specified air quality changes in each of the countries covered by the GBD project. For example, analysts could quantify the number of avoided premature deaths from a hypothetical 30% reduction in PM2.5 levels in Indonesia.
This full-day training session will instruct users in three key topics :
(1) understanding the basic principles of air pollution benefits assessment so that they may characterize results and their uncertainty correctly;
(2) operating the tool with the GBD data to perform country-level screening analyses;
(3) using the core features of the Ben MAP-CE program including the Geographic Information System, how to select health impact functions from the library and how to report both tabular results and maps.
For further details, visit www.epa.gov/air/benmap
This training is open to everyone but seats are limited. Contact Neal L. Fann (fann.neal@epa.gov) of USEPA to register and reserve you seat.
Type:
Face-to-Face Training
Training Duration:
1 Day
