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From: Mark Nieuwenhuijsen <mark.nieuwenhuijsen(a)isglobal.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:57 PM
Subject: PhD HIA Fellowship Re: PATH Web-Pages
To: kara.e.m(a)gmail.com
Thanks for email Next year we have a PhD studentship available for Health
impact Assessment for Healthy Living as part of the TransGlobal Health
network (see below). If you know of anyone interested in applying, please
forward this email and/or get in contact with me, and also please put it on
your notice boards, or send it to Master´s courses
- The call: http://www.transglobalhealth.
org/#/joint-phd-degree/call-2017/
- The 10 available research projects:
http://www.transglobalhealth.org/#/joint-phd-degree/research-projects/
*Project 9:** Health Impact Assessment for Healthy Living*
(Host Institute: ISGlobal)
Urbanisation is occurring at unprecedented rates worldwide, and will
present important challenges to protect and promote population health. The
United Nations projects that nearly all global population growth from 2016
-2030 will be absorbed by cities, about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the
next 14 years. In the face of rising non-communicable diseases, climate
change impacts, potential epidemics, new tools and mechanisms to work
across health and urban planning and transport sectors are urgently
needed. There is currently a lack of use of quantitative Health Impact
Assessment (HIA) models to assess the overall burden of mortality and
morbidity related to urban and transport development and planning in cities
that can be used by policy makers to mitigate harms and increase health
benefits, estimate effects on health equity and economic costs. HIA is a
novel approach that combines mixed-methods to systematically judge the
potential health effects a proposed policy, programme or particular
intervention might have on population health and the distribution of those
effects within a population (healthy equity). The aim of the proposed
research is to bring health into the agenda of urban and transport planning
by developing participatory HIA methods, models and tools for
evidence-based decision making whilst involving citizens and other
stakeholders to overcome political and cultural barriers of implementation.
The hypothesis is that HIA is a method that can be applied to different
urban contexts to assess policy scenarios on their health consequences, and
create indicators and recommendations that can optimise health and equity
in cities. We will construct a framework to identify urban and transport
related exposures with health relevance and consider demographic, economic
or geographical factors. We will develop a comprehensive quantitative HIA
model to assess scenarios of the health benefits and risks. Quantitative
sources will be supplemented by qualitative interview, focus groups, and
community network assessment techniques to contextualise public health
implications across different urban political, socio-economic, and spatial
contexts. Estimated health impacts and will be compared to health impacts
implied by business as usual. The modeling will include a health equity
assessment to help identify and target vulnerable population groups in
order to narrow the health gap, and reduce inequities throughout the whole
population. The HIA model will be developed in Barcelona, and then be
refined for applicability and application in cities worldwide, making this
a project with significant potential for global impact. This project is
transdisciplinary by nature, and aims to bring health, transport and
planning sectors together in collaboration to bridge sectorial gaps
methodological approaches, as well as to maximise impact in society.
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Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen PhD
Research Professor in Environmental Epidemiology
Director Air pollution and Urban Environment
Director Urban planning, Environment and Health Initiative
*IS**Global*
Barcelona Institute for Global Health - Campus MAR
Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB)
Doctor Aiguader, 88
08003 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34 93 214 7337 | + 34 606 05 08 14
mark.nieuwenhuijsen(a)isglobal.org
Skype: mark.nieuwenhuijsen
Assistant: Mar Ferrer: (++34) 93 2147330
Project websites:
TAPAS http://www.tapas-program.org/ <http://www.tapas-program.org/%20>
PASTA http://www.pastaproject.eu/home/ <http://www.pastaproject.eu/home/%20>
EXPOsOMICs http://www.exposomicsproject.eu/
HELIX http://www.projecthelix.eu/ <http://www.projecthelix.eu/%20>
ICEPURE http://www.icepure.eu/ <http://www.icepure.eu/%20>
CITI-SENSE http://citi-sense.eu/ <http://citi-sense.eu/%20>
PHENOTYPE http://www.phenotype.eu/
BlueHealth *www.bluehealth2020.eu <http://www.bluehealth2020.eu/>/*
ESCAPE http://www.escapeproject.eu/ <http://www.escapeproject.eu/%20>
Urban and Transport planning, Exposures and Health:
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/15/S1/38
<http://www.ehjournal.net/content/15/S1/38%20>
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