Moshood Olawale Fadeyi, Singapore Institute of Technology

Diabetes Mellitus: Associated health effect of air pollution exposure

Indoor Air Cartoon Journal, July 2018, Volume 1, #14

There is evidence suggesting that the increasing population of people with diabetes mellitus could be due to their exposure to air pollution, especially in the indoor environment – building, bus, train, etc. The outdoor environment is a major source of the pollutants in the indoor environment. Air pollutants find their way into the indoor environment through outdoor to indoor air-exchange – ventilation and infiltration. What would this finding mean to building users, operators, policymakers, and owners?

Diabetes Mellitus_IAC 14Do you want to know more about this topic? Read Eze et al. (2015) and Rajagopalan and Brook (2016) papers.

Published by Moshood Olawale Fadeyi, Singapore Institute of Technology

Dr. Moshood Olawale Fadeyi is a sustainable building professor with specialisation in sustainable building value delivery education at the Singapore Institute of Technology. He is also an architect, an indoor air quality expert, a chartered engineer (UK) – building services, a chartered construction manager (UK), a cartoonist, and a specialist adult educator. He holds four university degrees, including a Ph.D. in Indoor Environment and Energy from the National University of Singapore and the Technical University of Denmark. He is architecture (BSc Arch and M.Arch.), building science (MSc.), and engineering (Ph.D.) trained. He is a member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (UK), Chartered Institute of Building (UK), and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, & Air-conditioning Engineers. He is well suited for architecture, interior design, building science, and architectural/building services engineering education. He has experience and expertise in developing undergraduate and postgraduate curricula to make students job-ready upon graduation. He currently engages in artistic research to develop creative works to create an educational experience useful for solving sustainable building value delivery problems. An educational experience, i.e., technical knowledge and skills, life survival skills, and communication skills, is created through critical and reflective thinking that induces learning from his creative works. His educational experience development is anchored with creative works related to indoor air quality and sustainable building design, construction, and management. His academic career scholarship portfolio includes more than 200 research outputs published in public educational resources, peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and books. He leverages his fundamental knowledge and skillsets in the philosophy of digital solutions adoption, problem-solving philosophy, design, critical, reflective, scientific, and lean thinking, fine art, oral and written communication, applied research, case study research, and storytelling for creating his creative works. Companies and government agencies highly seek his expertise and leadership skills. He is the Editor, Author, and Cartoonist of Indoor Air Cartoon Journal – a public education resource informed by artistic research, providing indoor air quality (IAQ) educational experience to audiences from over 100 countries. He is a former National Taekwondo Champion in Singapore – Black Belt Middle-Heavy Weight category, 2006.

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