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.
Affiliations
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 and initiatives:
- Children, Cities and Climate (CCC Action Lab, funded by the Fondation Botnar)
- HEICCAM research network (Funded by NERC)
- Health impacts of converted housing (Funded by NIHR)
- Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity (PAICE, funded by the Wellcome Trust)
- Lancet Countdown, which is tracking global progress on climate change and health
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)
- Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH, funded by the Wellcome Trust)
- WinWindow: tracking the co-benefits of a green recovery (Funded by UKERC)