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Dr Peninah Murage

Associate Professor

United Kingdom

I am an environmental epidemiologist with a PhD in Health Geography and a background in health policy. My work examines the health effects of changes in the environment and how sustainable adaptation and mitigation solutions can promote the rapid transition to a zero-carbon future. This draws from a multidisciplinary perspective to understanding the complex linkages between people, places and natural ecosystems, and identifying nature-based solutions that can simultaneously promote health, safeguard natural ecosystems and achieve sustainable development.

Affiliations

Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Research

Research Area
Climate change
Environment
Environmental Health
Equity
Evaluation
Global Health
Health inequalities
Health outcomes
Impact evaluation
Public health
Research : policy relationship
Statistical methods
Epidemiology
GIS/Spatial analysis
Country
United Kingdom
Tanzania
Senegal
Region
Euro area
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

Health improvement and inequality in local authority green infrastructure strategies in England: a policy review.
Hands, A; Israelsson, J; Reynolds, N; Umeh, E; MURAGE, P; TURNER, G;
2026
Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
Are local authority green infrastructure strategies in England addressing climate and environmental risks to public health? A policy review
Israelsson, J; TURNER, G; Reynolds, N; Umeh, E; KOVATS, S; MURAGE, P; Hands, A;
2025
Nature-Based Solutions
Safeguarding natural ecosystems can protect population health: advancing approaches to bridge the health-ecology divide.
MURAGE, P; Hicks, C; Kapos, V; Naidoo, S; HASSAN, S; Whitmee, S;
2025
The Lancet. Planetary health
Projections of heat related mortality under combined climate and socioeconomic adaptation scenarios for England and Wales
COLE, R; WAN, K; MURAGE, P; Macintyre, HL; HAJAT, S; Heaviside, C;
2025
PLOS Climate
Impact of tree-based interventions in addressing health and wellbeing outcomes in rural low-income and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
MURAGE, P; ANTON, B; Chiwanga, F; PICETTI, R; Njunge, T; HASSAN, S; WHITMEE, S; FALCONER, J; SHARMA WADDINGTON, H; GREEN, R;
2025
The Lancet. Planetary health
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