MRC Centre for Environment and Health Fellowships
Lead Research Organisation:
Imperial College London
Department Name: School of Public Health
Abstract
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ORCID iD |
| Paul Elliott (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bennett JE
(2023)
Changes in life expectancy and house prices in London from 2002 to 2019: hyper-resolution spatiotemporal analysis of death registration and real estate data.
in The Lancet regional health. Europe
Chibwe J
(2023)
A ward level analysis of child pedestrian casualty frequencies in Greater London
in Journal of Safety Research
Clark S
(2023)
Geospatial modelling and socioeconomic inequalities of transportation, human, and nature-based sounds in Accra, Ghana
in ISEE Conference Abstracts
Dajnak D
(2022)
Pathway to WHO: achieving clean air in the UK
Evangelopoulos D
(2022)
Health Impact Assessment of Current and Past Air Pollution on Asthma in London
Evangelou E
(2021)
Alcohol consumption in the general population is associated with structural changes in multiple organ systems.
in eLife
Franklinos LHV
(2022)
Joint spatiotemporal modelling reveals seasonally dynamic patterns of Japanese encephalitis vector abundance across India.
in PLoS neglected tropical diseases
Gemmell E
(2023)
"In small places, close to home": Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities
in Health & Place
Gowda V
(2023)
Uncovering Urban Heat: Measuring high temperature exposure and its determinants in homes and neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana
in ISEE Conference Abstracts
| 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 | 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 | 10/2022 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 - 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 | 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 "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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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... |