2-5 November / Amman
This workshop enabled the exchange of knowledge between health and meteorology experts from universities, institutes, the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, to help establish the connection between the spread of diseases, where dust is the transmission agent or the direct cause. Correlating epidemics to dust present in the atmosphere is at the basis of our current state of the art. As a result, gaps and further actions needed to prevent epidemics were identified.. Coincidentally during the event there was an intense dust episode, followed by flooding.