Dr James Milner
Associate Professor in Climate Change - Environment and Health
United Kingdom
I am Associate Professor in Climate Change, Environment & Health and Co-Director of the Centre on Climate Change and Planetary 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, and I am also an Associate Member of the UK Government's Committee On the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP).
Affiliations
Centres
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)
I currently supervise doctoral students working on the following topics:
- Climate mitigation and adaptation of UK buildings to improve health
- Health impacts of active travel in the UK
Research
I currently work on the following research projects:
- Air and Noise Pollution Mitigation through Integrated, Society-centred Actions (ATMOPOLIS, funded by EU Horizon)
- Accelerating Resilience and Climate Adaptation of Domestic Environments for vulnerable populations (ARCADE, funded by UKRI-Defra)
- Child and adolescent Health Impacts of Learning Indoor environments under net zero (CHILI Hub, funded by UKRI/NIHR)
- Health impacts of converted housing (funded by NIHR)
- Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health (funded by NIHR)
- HEARTH: National hub on net zero, health and extreme heat (HEARTH Hub, funded by UKRI/NIHR)
- Indoor HABItability during the Transition to net zero housing hub (INHABIT Hub, funded by UKRI/NIHR)
- Policy and Implementation for Climate & Health Equity (PAICE, funded by Wellcome Trust)
- THERM-UK (funded by NERC)
Recently completed projects include:
- Children, Cities and Climate (funded by Fondation Botnar)
- 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)