Prof George Morris

Honorary member

Dr George Morris is an Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter.

He has spent a career working in environmental health, in local government; as an academic in different Scottish Universities; and as a Consultant in Environmental Health in the National Health Service in Scotland. During his 17 years of NHS Service he worked in the fields of health protection and health improvement.

A 5 year secondment as a Science Policy Adviser in Scottish Government between 2004 and 2009 gave George the opportunity to initiate and lead a new national policy approach to environment and human health. He holds Fellowships of the UK Faculty of Public Health and the Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland.

George now works independently with a focus on navigating complexity in environmental public health and overcoming the challenges of building population health on ecological principles. He is involved in projects across the UK and internationally, and has published widely on the topic of environmental health.

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Research project

Smartline

Smartline was a multi-partner research project looking at how technology can be used to help us live healthier and happier lives.
Research project

Beyond Greenspace

Beyond Greenspace aimed to improve our understanding in this area by examining how different types and qualities of natural environment have varying relationships with human health and wellbeing. The project used some of the UK’s extremely valuable existing (‘secondary’) datasets to address this research question.
Research project

BlueHealth

The BlueHealth project brought together a multi-disciplinary consortium to investigate how aquatic environments affect the health of Europe’s population.