Chair Schulman on outcome reporting and congestion pricing health impacts

Will DOHMH publish regular reports or dashboards on program outcomes and asthma trends in participating communities and schools?

Yes, absolutely.

We will be publishing reports that, you know, go along with what my colleague, Dr.

McNatt, just talked about, which we're going to be looking at asthma, sort of like the asthma rates in schools, a number of hospitalizations, reductions in days missed in school, etc.

How will the department measure whether congestion pricing mitigation investments are contributing to improved respiratory health outcomes in the Bronx, which is actually a good study to have, as a matter of fact, around congestion pricing?

I'm going to pass it to Dr.

McNabb.

Thank you so much for the question.

The departmental measure respiratory outcomes with air quality monitoring, which has already started.

Early findings from this work suggest that congestion pricing tolling is not changing the level of vehicle

exhaust in environmental justice designated neighborhoods, but the monitoring will continue and will evaluate the impact of the programming on, as my colleague shared, asthma-related ED visits, hospitalizations, asthma control, school days missed, et cetera.

Thanks so much.