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MRC Centre for Environment and Health Fellowships

Lead Research Organisation: Imperial College London
Department Name: School of Public Health

Abstract

Abstracts are not currently available in GtR for all funded research. This is normally because the abstract was not required at the time of proposal submission, but may be because it included sensitive information such as personal details.

Technical Summary

The MRC Centre training programme (MCTP) was established in 2009 and renewed in 2014 and 2019, with the mission of providing first-class training and career development opportunities for the next generation of research leaders in environment and health sciences. The programme covers three main areas: training and personal development, networking and collaboration, and support and pastoral care. The vision is to focus on quantitative skills training, to extend collaborative training with other organisations, and to offer focused support for fellows, building on our success in training at both PhD and post-doctoral levels.
Training activities are designed to equip students and early career researchers with the multi-disciplinary skills required to take advantage of the rapidly developing technical and methodological landscape for research on environment and health. This involves training across a range of disciplines, especially those involving quantitative and computational sciences, providing the skills needed to analyse and understand the outputs of large-scale epidemiological, toxicological and omic analyses within an applied public health context and apply them to policy development.
The Joint Academic Career Development Programme, supported by the Joint Academic Career Development Committee, develops activities supporting the Centre students and early career researchers' academic progress, facilitate a broad training experience including technical workshops, organise academic events (e.g. annual postgraduate symposium to showcase student work) and bring the students' perspective to the Centre management structures.

Publications

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Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Co-opted member of the Quantification of Air Pollution Risk (QUARK) sub-group of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Deputy director of the MRC Centre for Environment and Health and two HPRUs Joint Academic Career Development Committee
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact All the benefits of our Training programme have been submitted in the mid-term report and previous reports of the MRC Centre.
 
Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Member of the Reviewer Committee of the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal Early Career Researchers Initiative Advisory Panel
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
 
Description Early Career Researcher Initiative Advisory Panel - Dimitris Evangelopoulos
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Member of the Early Career Researcher Initiative Advisory Panel for Environmental Health Perspectives
 
Description Member of Committee on Medical Effects of Air Pollutants - Dimitris Evangelopoulos
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact Better understanding of quantification of air pollution risk
 
Description Member of the Quantification of Air Pollution Risk (QUARK) sub-group of the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
Impact COMEAP and QUARK provide advice to Government Departments and Agencies on on all matters concerning the health effects of air pollutants.
 
Description Report for the Defra Air Quality Information System (AQIS) review (D Evangelopoulos)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/reports?report_id=1176
 
Description 1. "Environmental exposures, cognitive function and cardiovascular disease - Pump Priming award
Amount £75,000 (GBP)
Organisation British Heart Foundation (BHF) 
Sector Charity/Non Profit
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2025 
End 02/2026
 
Description Identifying and Defining "At Risk" Groups to Better Target Air Quality Information: A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Health Evidence Base
Amount £49,925 (GBP)
Organisation Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2022 
End 04/2023
 
Description Wastewater Analysis for Narcotics Detection (WAND) Epidemiology Sub-Project
Amount £46,500 (GBP)
Organisation Home Office 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 03/2023
 
Description Wearable technology for personal sensing of air pollution and other environmental exposures
Amount £59,879 (GBP)
Funding ID NE/X009289/1 
Organisation Natural Environment Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 09/2023
 
Description Environmental monitoring and multi-morbidity in Northern rural China 
Organisation Harbin Medical University
Country China 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Building from the fellowship project, I am working on a prospective project linking environmental monitoring with a cross-sectional multi-morbidity study. One study site out of the three in this new study overlaps with the study site in my fellowship, so can perform as a validation dataset for modelling work on indoor air pollution. I have designed environmental monitoring Standard Operation Procedures, questionnaires, and will perform training and QA/QC control for the fieldwork.
Collaborator Contribution My partners will design, supervise and project manage the cross-sectional study, and incorporate environmental monitoring components in the fieldwork data collection. We will then analyse the collected data together.
Impact No output to this stage. The collaboration is multi-disciplinary with the project partner being epidemiologist.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Pan-London Cancer Research Fellowship 
Organisation Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution I have secured funding and will act as a co-supervisor of a Clinical Research Fellow who will work on the improvement of diagnostics and therapeutics in never-smoker, lung cancer patients and investigate the associations with air pollution. The project is funded by the Pan-London Cancer Research Fellowship scheme and will start in April 2022.
Collaborator Contribution Dr Alex Georgiou, Consultant Medical Oncologist at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, will be the first supervisor of the project. He conceptualised the research idea and we wrote the fellowship proposal which was funded by the Biomedical Research Centres, RM Partners, North Central London Cancer Alliance, North East London Cancer Alliance and South East London Cancer Alliance (Pan-London Cancer Research Fellowship scheme).
Impact The Clinical Fellow will officially start on April 1st.
Start Year 2021
 
Description "Exposure measurement error correction in air pollution epidemiology: Scale matters" - a presentation from Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact ISEE Conference 2023, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description "Net Zero policies in the UK: The air pollution co benefits on mortality and morbidity" - Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Respirami Conference 2024, Milan, Italy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description A new cross-faculty undergraduate module 'Creating Evidence-Based Solutions to Environmental Pollution and Health' 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact This is a for-degree-credit module but on a pass/fail basis. So it has the flexibility to be designed like a classroom engagement activity on the topic of environment and health. 37 students from multi-disciplines attended this 10-week course and in the end presented their solutions for environment and health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
 
Description Co-organiser of the Journal Club - Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Co-organiser of the Environmental Research Group Journal Club
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Co-organiser of the MRC Journal Club and Seminar Series - Niloofar Shoari 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact postgraduate students and early career researchers attend bi-weekly Journal Club and Seminars to discuss an important paper in the field or present their recent research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Co-organiser of the first NIHR HPRU National Academic Career Development Meeting across all HPRUs in the UK - Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The first national HPRU for the Academic Career Development Programme Leads where Leads discussed about the Training Programmes, shared good practice and brought expertise from the MRC Centre Training Programme
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Co-Chair of Symposium at 2022 ISEE Annual Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Co-chair of the symposium "Impact of exposure measurement error on the health effect estimates: quantification and correction" at ISEE 2022 Annual conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Leader and Co-Leader in MSc modules 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Leader of the Health Impact Assessment MSc module and Co-leader of the Environmental Epidemiology MSc module
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023,2024
 
Description Dimitris Evangelopoulos - Presentation a ISEE 2022 Annual Conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to symposium "Toxicity of air pollutant mixtures: Overcoming the toxic mixture of spatial misalignment, collinearity, and measurement error" at ISEE 2023 Annual conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Evidence submitted to Department for Health and Social Care 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact DHSC requested evidence on whether it would be beneficial to make self-isolation (after being contact traced for SARS-CoV-2) legally mandated. We responded with a small analysis and then later built this analysis into a full research paper which was also forwarded to DHSC. Our contacts informed us that our work was definitely taken into consideration during policy discussions and we believe that self-isolation was legally mandated in part due to our work (although this decision was later overturned).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.20.20178558v1
 
Description Heat resilience in urban environments: Making cities cooler 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Invited panellist for a webinar discussing the challenges and solutions to soaring summer temperatures and the urban island heat effect, including my Fellowship work in Accra.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.rics.org/news-insights/wbef/heat-resilience-in-urban-environments-making-cities-cooler
 
Description High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement and city-scale modelling of air and noise pollution in Accra Ghana: sensors, deep learning, and street-view imagery 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Oral Presentation at the European Geographical Union meeting in Vienna, on our work on environmental measurements and methods for spatiotemporal estimation in Accra, Ghana.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/meetingprogramme
 
Description ISEE 2022 Annual Conference presentation - Hanbin Zhang 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact 51-100 exposure scientists and environmental epidemiologists attended my my poster presentation 'Partitioning personal measurements into personal exposure to pollution from indoor and outdoor sources in London inhabitants ' and exchanged views/ideas on the research activity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description ISEE 2022 Annual Conference presentation - Ricky Nathvani 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at ISEE 2022 annual conference on "Geospatial modelling of road-traffic noise levels and frequency and the attributable burden of annoyance and sleep disturbance in Accra, Ghana " by MRC Centre research fellow Ricky Nathvani
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isee.2022.P-0704
 
Description ISEE 2022 Annual Conference presentation - Ricky Nathvani 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation at ISEE 2022 Annual Conference on "Characterization of urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning" by MRC Centre research fellow Ricky Nathvani.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/abs/10.1289/isee.2022.O-OP-019
 
Description Internal Workshop 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I ran a workshop on machine learning for postgraduate students and researchers within the department. The workshop was delivered twice due to popular demand. I ran developed and delivered a practical session on day 1 and on day 2 we have case studies from four researchers across the department and related departments.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Interview with air quality blogger 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Interview with air quality blogger ahead of British Academy conference organised by Kayla Schulte.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
URL http://airaware.substack.com/p/our-first-interview
 
Description NIHR Academic Career Development Forum - Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dimitris Evangelopoulos has been appointed as Joint Training Deputy Director to cover Stephanie Wright while on maternity leave. As part of his role he joint all NIHR Academic Career Development events as well as the Forum 2024 which happened in London, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description New Scientist Festival 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact More than 500 school children and parents come to this event where we hosted interactive activities on environmental pollution and health impacts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation at Geomed- Niloofar Shoari 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I gave a talk titled "Spatial and temporal analysis of child pedestrian crashes in England" at GEOMED, which is an interdisciplinary conference on spatial statistics, spatial epidemiology, and geographical aspects of public health
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation in ISEE 2022 Annual Conference - Niloofar Shoari 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I had a poster presentation "A joint analysis of school neighbourhoods' exposure to urban environment factors in Greater London"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation on Air pollution research - Dimitris Evangelopoulos 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation to the 2022 UKHSA Annual UK Research Review Meeting on Outdoor and Indoor Air Pollution Research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Presentation to American Association of Geographers Meeting, Denver, 2023 - Ricky Nathvani 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on "Beyond here and now: estimating pollution levels across space and time from street view images with deep learning" by MRC Centre research fellow Ricky Nathvani
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://aag.secure-platform.com/aag2023/gallery/rounds/54/details/35324
 
Description Presentation to ICUH 18th International Conference on Urban Health, Valencia, 2022 - Ricky Nathvani 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Conference presentation on "Predicting environmental health hazards in cities using images" by Ricky Nathvani
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OElRKwZizx0
 
Description Press release on the impacts of environmental pollution on human health organised by the Hellenic Thoracic Society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact The Hellenic Thoracic Society has added Environmental Pollution and Climate Change in their research agenda. As part of their dissemination activities, they arranged a field work of measuring children's lung function in the city of Karditsa, Greece. They also arranged a press release with wide media coverage in which Dimitris Evangelopoulos presented his work on the impacts of air pollution on health.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.iatronet.gr/article/125413/epe-diakoph-kapnismatos-kai-epiptoseis-ths-klimatikhs-allaghs
 
Description Recognition of service ceremony 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited to attend a ceremony to recognise community project ambassadors in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description Seminar presentation to UKHSA Air Quality and Public Health (AQPH) group's monthly meeting, Abingdon, UK, Feb 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Presentation on " Towards fine-scale pollution estimation in space and time using street-level images and computer vision" to the UKHSA AQPH group monthly meeting (includes seminar series).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Talk delivered at UKHSA Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution stakeholders meeting 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Delivered a presentation on public air pollution information displays to stakeholders at the annual UKHSA Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution stakeholders meeting.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2025
 
Description The Hot Topic: Navigating Urban Heat and Health Equity In and Outside the Home 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Co-chaired a Symposia for the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology Conference in Taiwan, being afforded a hall that accommodated 30-50 people for our speakers' talks, which drew a large, engaged and diverse crowd to discuss contemporary approaches to measuring indoor and outdoor heat exposure.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://2023.iseeconference.org/assets/scientific-programme-images/ISEE2023-program-15-9-23.pdf
 
Description Time Series Analysis workshops 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Two workshops on this theme took place in January 2022 open to students and early career researchers, incuding a workshop with presentations on case studies in this area from Dr Dimitris Evangelopolous, Prof Klea Katsouyanni and Dr Monica Pirani, Prof Antonio Gasparrini of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Prof Ioar Rivas of IS Global.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Work presented at SPI-M 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact My work has been presented at SPI-M, a SAGE subcomittee, twice during the coronavirus pandemic. In both cases collaborators presented the work. However, I was co-lead on both the actual projects presented. SPI-M summarise results across multiple studies and then present the findings to SAGE, from which policy makers directly make decisions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/scientific-advisory-group-for-emergencies-sage-coronaviru...