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Dr James Milner

Assistant Professor in Climate Change - Environment and Health

United Kingdom

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I am Associate Professor in Climate Change, Environment & Health. My research involves mathematical modelling of environmental interventions and their impacts on human health, with a particular focus on the health effects of climate change mitigation actions. I contribute to the Lancet Countdown, which is tracking progress on climate change and health. I am also an Associate Member of the UK Government's Committee On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).

Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Teaching

I am the module organiser of Environmental Health Policy (PHM206) on the MSc Public Health by Distance Learning.

I also act as a personal tutor on the MSc Public Health and lecture on the modules:
- Environment, Health and Sustainable Development (1125)
- Environmental Epidemiology (1301)
- Environmental Health Policy (1300)

I currently supervise doctoral students working on the following topics:
- Health impacts of active travel in the UK
- Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support 'nutrition-sensitive' agriculture

Research

I currently work on the following research projects:
- Accelerating Resilience and Climate Adaptation of Domestic Environments for vulnerable populations (ARCADE, funded by UKRI-Defra)
- Children, Cities and Climate (CCC Action Lab, funded by Fondation Botnar)
- Health impacts of converted housing (funded by NIHR)
- Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health (funded by NIHR)
- Pathfinder Initiative (funded by Wellcome Trust)
- Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity (PAICE, funded by Wellcome Trust)
- THERM-UK (funded by NERC)

 

Recently completed projects include:

- Advancing School Performance: Indoor environmental quality, Resilience & Educational outcomes (ASPIRE, funded by EPSRC)
- Assessing Mitigation Pathways to Realise Public Health Benefits of Air Pollutant Emission Reductions from Agriculture (AMPHoRA, funded by NIHR)
- Health impact evaluation of the 'Warmth and Wellbeing' home energy efficiency scheme (funded by the Government of Ireland)
- HEICCAM air pollution research network (funded by NERC)
- Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH, funded by Wellcome Trust)
- WinWindow: tracking the co-benefits of a green recovery (funded by UKERC)

Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Environmental Health
Health impact analysis
Housing
Modelling
Epidemiology
Mathematical Modelling
Disease and Health Conditions
Non-communicable diseases
Region
World

Selected Publications
Use of a synthetic population to model co-benefits to air quality and health from household fuel emission mitigation policies in Kenya
BRUNN, AA; Ferguson, L; GERARD, J; Muindi, K; Chowdhury, S; Taylor, J; MILNER, J;
2025
Environmental Research: Health
The public health co-benefits of strategies consistent with net-zero emissions: a systematic review.
Moutet, L; Bernard, P; GREEN, R; MILNER, J; HAINES, A; Slama, R; Temime, L; Jean, K;
2025
The Lancet. Planetary health
Health impact of policies to reduce agriculture-related air pollutants in the UK: The relative contribution of change in PM2.5 exposure and diets to morbidity and mortality.
PASTORINO, S; MILOJEVIC, A; GREEN, R; Beck, R; Carnell, E; Colombo, PE; Misselbrook, T; Miller, M; Reis, S; Tomlinson, S; Vieno, M; MILNER, J;
2024
Environmental research
Partial substitutions of animal with plant protein foods in Canadian diets have synergies and trade-offs among nutrition, health and climate outcomes.
Auclair, O; Eustachio Colombo, P; MILNER, J; Burgos, SA;
2024
Nature food
School building energy efficiency and NO<sub>2</sub> related risk of childhood asthma in England and Wales: Modelling study.
KARAKAS, F; Grassie, D; Schwartz, Y; Dong, J; Chalabi, Z; Mumovic, D; Mavrogianni, A; MILNER, J;
2023
The Science of the total environment
Urban-rural disparity in global estimation of PM<sub>2ยท5</sub> household air pollution and its attributable health burden.
Mohajeri, N; Hsu, S-C; MILNER, J; Taylor, J; Kiesewetter, G; Gudmundsson, A; Kennard, H; Hamilton, I; Davies, M;
2023
The Lancet. Planetary health
Air pollution and child health impacts of decarbonization in 16 global cities: Modelling study.
MILNER, J; HUGHES, R; Chowdhury, S; PICETTI, R; Ghosh, R; YEUNG, S; Lelieveld, J; Dangour, AD; Wilkinson, P;
2023
Environment international
Impact on mortality of pathways to net zero greenhouse gas emissions in England and Wales: a multisectoral modelling study.
MILNER, J; TURNER, G; Ibbetson, A; Eustachio Colombo, P; GREEN, R; Dangour, AD; HAINES, A; Wilkinson, P;
2023
The Lancet Planetary Health
Meat, money and messaging: How the environmental and health harms of red and processed meat consumption are framed by the meat industry.
Clare, K; Maani, N; MILNER, J;
2022
Food Policy
A tool for assessing the climate change mitigation and health impacts of environmental policies: the Cities Rapid Assessment Framework for Transformation (CRAFT).
Symonds, P; MILNER, J; Mohajeri, N; Aplin, J; Hale, J; J Lloyd, S; Fremont, H; Younkin, S; Shrubsole, C; Robertson, L; Taylor, J; Zimmermann, N; WILKINSON, P; Davies, M;
2021
Wellcome open research
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James Milner

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