Professor Sir Stephen Holgate CBE: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- RCP's special adviser on air quality
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 30 Sept 2026
“Air pollution is silently damaging the nation's health. The evidence is clear that air pollution affects almost every organ in the human body, but the public are in the dark about the full extent of the health impacts.”
What Professor Sir Stephen Holgate CBE has said
“The evidence base linking air pollution to serious disease has never been stronger. We are no longer talking about lung disease alone. These particles – invisible to the naked eye – travel to every organ in the body to initiate and accelerate non-communicable diseases and we know they can cross the placenta leading to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Clean air is not a luxury, it's a medical necessity.”
RCP special adviser on air quality and lead author of A breath of fresh air · Public health & prevention · 30 Sept 2026 · RCP calls on the UK to recognise air pollution as a public health emergency ↗
Where Professor Sir Stephen Holgate CBE has been quoted
- Public unaware of the health harms of air pollution, warns Royal College of Physiciansrcp.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
- RCP calls on the UK to recognise air pollution as a public health emergencyrcp.ac.uk · 30 Sept 2026
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