Dr James Milner
BSc MSc PhD
Assistant Professor
My research involves applied mathematical modelling of environmental interventions and their impacts on human health, with a particular focus on climate change mitigation actions in urban areas.
Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Centres
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health
Teaching
I am the module organiser of Environmental Health Policy (PHM206) on the MSc Public Health by Distance Learning. I am also a Deputy Chair of the Exam Board.
I lecture and act as a personal tutor on the MSc Public Health.
I currently supervise doctoral students working on the following topics:
- Urban greenspace and respiratory health
- Air pollution and respiratory health in an occupational setting in Ghana
- Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support 'nutrition-sensitive' agriculture
- The health impacts of particle filtration to reduce PM2.5 in residences
Research
I currently work on the following projects and initiatives:
- Advancing School Performance: Indoor environmental quality, Resilience and 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
- Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH), funded by the Wellcome Trust's Our Planet Our Health scheme
- Health impact evaluation of the Irish Government's Warmth and Wellbeing pilot home energy efficiency scheme
- The Lancet Countdown, which is tracking global progress on climate change and health
Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Health impact analysis
Public health
Environmental Health
Food
Housing
Modelling
Discipline
Epidemiology
Mathematical modelling
Selected Publications
Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science.
2020
Journal of Urban Health
Household air pollution in Nairobi's slums: A long-term policy evaluation using participatory system dynamics.
2019
Science of The Total Environment
Projected health effects of realistic dietary changes to address freshwater constraints in India: a modelling study.
2017
The lancet Planetary health
Commentary: Effects of Home Energy Efficiency and Heating Interventions on Cold-related Health.
2016
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass)
Home energy efficiency and radon related risk of lung cancer: modelling study.
2014
BMJ (Clinical research ed)
Urban energy, carbon management (low carbon cities) and co-benefits for human health
2012
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
