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City: Online
Organiser: SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future One Health
Last signup date: 1 October 2024
Additional info:
Speakers on October 4:
Natalie Mueller
Assistant Research Professor, Urban Planning, Environment and Health, Air Pollution at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, IS Global.
Natalie is an environmental epidemiologist with strong expertise in health impact assessment (HIA)methodologies. She has led and conducted various HIA studies, studying different counterfactual scenarios aimed at sustaining and improving health in cities, through changes in urban form, e.g. superblocks, green spaces, etc., or transport systems, e.g. promotion of walking and cycling for transport, impacts of electric micromobility, etc., combining comparative risk assessment with other novel modelling approaches.
Eleanor Ratcliffe
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey. British Academy Innovation Fellowship for 2024-2025 - Tranquil City.
Eleanor's research mainly concerns restorative environments, or places which help people to recover psychologically from stress and/or cognitive fatigue. I focus particularly on sensory aspects of these environments (e.g., sounds and soundscapes) and on how bonds between people and place can enhance links between environment and wellbeing.
Hussein Khalil
Researcher, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, SLU.
Hussein's research focuses on improving human and ecosystem health by studying the pathways that link eco-environmental, infrastructural, socioeconomic, and behavioural factors, especially in low-income urban settings. He is especially interested in interdisciplinary and participatory tools and methods, and interventions that are nature-based, involve local communities and stakeholders, and adopt a broad view of health and quality of life.
Emily J. Rugel
Researcher, PhD, with a Master in Public Health, Vancouver
As a Ph.D. researcher in environmental health, Emily's research develops novel tools to assess exposure to health-promoting urban forms – such as natural space, neighborhood walkability, and affordable-housing programs – with the ultimate aim of developing scientific evidence that can be embedded in the urban form. Broadly exploring the intersection of health and place, her specific outcomes of interest include mental health, social interaction, and the pathway linking the two.
The Urban Health webinar #1
Watch the first webinar in this series on SLU Play.
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Bridging disciplines through Urban Healthscapes
Urban Healthscapes at SLU Urban Futures
Future topics
Planned topics for future webinars in the Urban Helath series:
- Climate conversations - more actual research and practical ideas – to deal with extreme weather events
- Nature-connectedness and outdoors - Being outdoors - outdoor offices – aspects of environment/work - office spaces
- Urban wilderness - animal Health & human health
- Waste management and pollution in cities – plan and nudge behaviour
- Planning and learning about playful cities
- Urban planning and equality