Dr James Milner
BSc MSc PhD
Assistant Professor
My research involves mathematical modelling of the health impacts of environmental interventions and policies with a particular focus on climate change mitigation strategies.
Before joining SEHR, I worked as a Research Fellow at The Bartlett School, University College London. I also have a PhD in air pollution exposure modelling from Imperial College London.
Affiliations
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Social and Environmental Health Research
Teaching
I am the module organiser of Environmental Health Policy (PHM206) on the MSc Public Health by Distance Learning. I also lecture and act as a personal tutor on the MSc Public Health.
Research
I currently work on two Our Planet Our Health grants awarded by the Wellcome Trust:
- SHUE aims to build a detailed database on global cities and their populations with the aim of identifying the inter-relationship between city characteristics, their use of energy and other resources, and health-related behaviours and exposures.
- SADHI aims to define healthy and sustainable diets in India and to model the health impacts resulting from adoption of those diets.
I am also part of the ongoing Lancet Countdown process.
My previous research projects include:
- PURGE
- Development of the HIDEEM model
- Evidence review and modelling to support guidance on excess winter deaths and illnesses by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
- PUrE Intrawise
- LUCID
- DAPPLE
Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Health impact analysis
Public health
Environmental Health
Food
Housing
Modelling
Discipline
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Selected Publications
Urban energy, carbon management (low carbon cities) and co-benefits for human health
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Operational air pollution modelling in the UK - Street canyon applications and challenges
Atmospheric Environment
