Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen
Research Professor, Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative, and Director of the Air pollution and Urban Environment Programme Childhood & Environment, Air Pollution, Urban Planning, Environment and HealthMark J Nieuwenhuijsen PhD is a world leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment with a strong focus and interest on healthy urban living.
He led the TAPAS (active transportation and health) and PHENOTYPE (green space and health) studies and participates in the ESCAPE (air pollution and health), HELIX (exposome and health), EXPOsOMICs (exposome and health) and PASTA (active transportation and health) studies.
He currently participates in the iMAP (Urban environment and cognition), BlueHealth (Bluespace and health), Lifecycle (Birth cohorts) and CitiesHealth (Citizen science and health) studies.
He has edited three books on Exposure Assessment and on Environmental Epidemiology, and one on Integrating human health into Urban and Transport planning, one on Transportation and Health and has co-authored more than 450 papers published in peer reviewed journals and 35 book chapters.
In 2018, he was awarded the ISEE John Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology. In both 2018 and 2019, he was among the 1% most cited scientists in the world.
Lines of research
- Urban and transport Planning and Health
- Air pollution
- Noise
- Temperature
- Green space
- Physical activity
Main publications
Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Khreis H. Car free cities: Pathway to healthy urban living. Environ Int. 2016 Jun 5;94:251-262
Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Khreis H, Triguero-Mas M, Gascon M, Dadvand P. Fifty Shades of Green: Pathway to Healthy Urban Living. Epidemiology. 2017;28: 63–71
Mueller N, Rojas-Rueda D, Basagaña X, Cirach M, Cole-Hunter T, Dadvand P, Donaire-Gonzalez D, Foraster M, Gascon M, David Martinez D, Tonne C, Triguero-Mas M, Valentín A, Nieuwenhuijsen M. Urban and transport planning related exposures and mortality: a health impact assessment for cities. Environ Health Perspec 2017; 125(1):89-96
Nieuwenhuijsen MJ. Urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health-new concepts, methods and tools to improve health in cities. Environ Health. 2016 Mar 8;15 Suppl 1:38
Khreis H, Kelly C, Tate J, Parslow R, Lucas K and Nieuwenhuijsen M. Exposure to traffic-related air pollution and risk of development of childhood asthma: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Environment International 2017 ;100:1-31.