Dr Ben Armstrong, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Ben Armstrong is a Reader in Epidemiological Statistics. His research interests include the effects of measurement errors on estimates of exposure-health relationships, the analysis of cohort studies, and the regression analysis of time series of health events.

Dr Zaid Chalabi, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Zaid Chalabi is a Senior Lecturer in Health Impact Analysis and Modelling. His main research interests include health impact analysis, environmental health modelling, dealing with variability and uncertainty in mathematical models, optimal decision-making under uncertainty, cost-effectiveness and value of information analyses applied to complex public health interventions.

Dr Ruth Doherty, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

Ruth Doherty a lecturer in atmospheric science. Her main research interests are: long-range transport of air pollution, climate-chemistry interactions, and probabilistic climate change. Prior to joining the Institute of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, she was a researcher in the Institute for Study of the Environment at NCAR and the Climatic Research Unit, UEA.

Dr Shakoor Hajat, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Shakoor Hajat is a lecturer in Statistics and Epidemiology. He has research interests in environmental epidemiology and populations sciences.

Dr Mathew Heal, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Mat Heal is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Chemistry leading a research group with interests in chemical and physical processes that determine the exposure to, and impacts of, air pollution on the environment and human health.

Dr Ai Ishigami, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Ai Ishigami is a research fellow in Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, LSHTM. She trained in GeoSpatial Information Schiences (GIS) and environmental risk analysis in Japan and is now engaged in epidemiological research at LSHTM and the School of Medicine, Keio University (Japan). Her research topic is the methodological issues of spatial analysis required for environmental epidemiology.

Ms Sari Kovats, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sari Kovats is a lecturer in Environmental Epidemiology. Her areas of interest are in health issues related to climate change, specifically the health impacts of heat waves and associated public health responses, the role of temperature in the transmission of food borne and water borne disease, the association between temperature and rainfall and mortality in cities in low income countries and the health impacts of flooding.

Dr Sam Pattenden, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Sam Pattenden has worked as a statistician in environmental epidemiology for seven years, and has considerable experience in analysing complex, hierarchical datasets. The bulk of his work has centred around health inequalities, and on methodological issues and associations between air pollution, climate and health.

Dr David Stevenson, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

David Stevenson is a lecturer in atmospheric modelling and has over 11 years experience in global tropospheric chemistry modelling. He helped to develop the STOCHEM model at the Met Office, including coupling it to the Unified Model.

Dr Paul Wilkinson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Paul Wilkinson is a reader in Environmental Epidemiology, a Public Health Physician and Head of the Public & Environmental Health Research Unit, LSHTM. He trained in medicine and public health in the UK, and has undertaken epidemiological research at the National Heart & Lung Institute and the London School. His principal research interests are climate and health, the health consequences of environmental hazards, and related methodological research.

Dr Massimo Vieno, School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh

Massimo Vieno is an atmospheric modeller. He is the main developer of the EMEP4UK regional chemistry transport model -a joint collaboration with the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, CEH and the University of Edinburgh.

Key contacts: Ruth Doherty (Edinburgh) and Paul Wilkinson (LSHTM) (PIs)

Project Partners

Dr Bill Collins, Atmospheric Composition and Climate, Met Office, Hadley Centre

Dr Linda Mearns, Institute for Study of the Environment, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO, USA

Dr Kristie Ebi, Alexandia, VA, USA