Dr James Milner

Assistant Professor

United Kingdom

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

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:

- Occupational air pollution exposure and respiratory health in Ghana

- Air pollution and health in people relocating between environments

- Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support 'nutrition-sensitive' agriculture

Research

I currently work on the following research projects and initiatives:

- 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)

- Children, Cities and Climate (CCC Action Lab, funded by the Fondation Botnar)

- Health impact evaluation of the Warmth and Wellbeing home energy efficiency scheme (Funded by the Government of Ireland)

- HEICCAM research network (HEICCAM, funded by NERC)

- Investigating potential health and health equality impacts of planning deregulation: the case of permitted development housing in England (Funded by NIHR)

- Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity (PAICE, funded by the Wellcome Trust)

- WinWindow: tracking the co-benefits of a green recovery (Funded by UKERC)

- The Lancet Countdown, which is tracking global progress on climate change and health

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

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

Home energy efficiency under net zero: time to monitor UK indoor air.

Petrou, G; HUTCHINSON, E; Mavrogianni, A; MILNER, J; Macintyre, H; Phalkey, R; Hsu, S-C; Symonds, P; Davies, M; WILKINSON, P;

2022

BMJ-BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

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

Exposure to urban greenspace and pathways to respiratory health: An exploratory systematic review.

Mueller, W; MILNER, J; Loh, M; Vardoulakis, S; WILKINSON, P;

2022

Science of the total environment

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

Health benefits of policies to reduce carbon emissions.

MILNER, J; Hamilton, I; Woodcock, J; Williams, M; Davies, M; WILKINSON, P; HAINES, A;

2020

BMJ: British Medical Journal

An Exposure-Mortality Relationship for Residential Indoor PM2.5 Exposure from Outdoor Sources

MILNER, J; ARMSTRONG, B; Davies, M; Ridley, I; CHALABI, Z; Shrubsole, C; Vardoulakis, S; WILKINSON, P;

2017

Climate

Projected health effects of realistic dietary changes to address freshwater constraints in India: a modelling study.

MILNER, J; JOY, EJ M; GREEN, R; HARRIS, F; ALEKSANDROWICZ, L; Agrawal, S; Smith, P; HAINES, A; DANGOUR, AD;