Abstract
Air pollution was estimated to be responsible for nearly 7 million premature deaths worldwide per year, with the majority of them taking place in low- and middle-income countries. Conversely, the number of air quality studies are often limited in given countries. Bolivia is a country classified as lower-middle income country in which no formal study on the state of air quality was previously performed. In this presentation I will give an overview of the state or atmospheric research in Bolivia, and I will go through the main results of my PhD work which was focused on the characterization of the state of air quality in La Paz-El Alto metropolitan area, and a short summary of the identified pollution sources and their associations with health outcomes.