Nature, Biodiversity and Health

RENEW : exploring how individuals relate to and experience nature and biodiversity and how this may change with biodiversity renewal

RENEW is a five-year partnership programme (2022 – 2027), led by the University of Exeter and the National Trust and funded by NERC, to develop solutions to one of the…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

GroundsWell: transforming our cities from the ground up

(2021 – 2026) The GroundsWell project explores inequalities in how people access and use natural spaces in urban areas. There is clear evidence showing that access and proximity to urban…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

How migrant populations can promote health, wellbeing and a sense of place through natural space creation

2022-2026 PhD   Author: Qingyue Xue This PhD research project is focusing on how migrant populations promote health, well-being, a sense of place and belonging in the city through the creation…

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology, Blue Environments and Health, Climate Change

BlueAdapt- a Horizon Europe project to study how Climate Change impacts on Coastal Pathogens to affect Human Health

OCTOBER 2022-2026 The impact of climate change on health risks due to pathogens in the environment, specifically in our coastal waters is being investigated by this £8.7 million Horizon Europe…

Other

Perception of health risks relating to 5G and other wireless tech

2022- 2027 Novel applications of wireless communications technology continue to see extremely rapid growth, ranging from mobile phones and virtual reality to industry automation and the Internet of Things. In…

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Evaluating the Green Social Prescribing Test and Learn Pilots

A team from ECEHH have been funded to evaluate the Government’s flagship Green Social Prescribing test and learn pilots programme. Social prescribing and community-based support enables GPs, other health and care practitioners and local agencies to refer people to a link worker who gives people time and focuses on what matters to the individual.

Nature, Biodiversity and Health

Nature on Prescription for Mental Health: Feasibility Stage for the ‘greENGAGE’ Trial Stage

A team from the University of Exeter and University of Plymouth are conducting a feasibility study of nature-based activities reached through social prescribing. The work is funded by have been…

Climate Change

New Local Climate Adaptation Tool Supports Health and Wellbeing

A partnership between the European Centre for Environment and Human Health and Cornwall Council, supported by a wide range of local stakeholders is developing a tool to support local decision makers to plan and adapt to climate change.

Food Systems and Planetary Health

Food production in small island states

Improving community-based food production in the Caribbean and the Pacific.

Food Systems and Planetary Health

Transdisciplinary data assemblages

Synthesising existing data sources to inform food policy and action in the Caribbean.

Blue Environments and Health

BlueHealth

An international consortium investigating how aquatic environments can affect public health in Europe. The project’s interdisciplinary research has combined large-scale survey data with localised interventions to understand the effects these environments might have on health.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbiology

Catchment-scale antimicrobial resistance

How do catchment-scale processes contribute to antibiotic resistance in coastal waters?