Equipo ISGlobal

Mark 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.

At ISGlobal, he is Research Professor; Scientific Director of the Severo Ochoa Programme; Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative; and Head of the Climate, Air Pollution, Nature and Urban Health Programme.

He led the TAPAS (active transportation and health) and PHENOTYPE (green space and health) studies and participated in, amongst others,  the ESCAPE (air pollution and health), HELIX (exposome and health), EXPOsOMICs (exposome and health), ATHLETE (exposome and health) PASTA (active transportation and health),  BlueHealth (Bluespace and health), Lifecycle (Birth cohorts) and CitiesHealth (Citizen science and health) studies.

He currently participates in the iMAP (Urban environment and cognition), CATALYSE (Climate action and health) and GoGreenNEXT (naturebased solutions ad health) studies and leads the UBDPolicy study (Cities and health impact assessment).

He has edited three books on Exposure Assessment and on Environmental Epidemiology, and five on Urban and transport planning and Health and has co-authored more than 600 papers published in peer reviewed journals and 40 book chapters.

In 2018, he was awarded the ISEE John Goldsmith Award for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology.  Since 2018, he is among the 1% most cited scientists in the world.

Líneas de investigación

• Urban and transport Planning and Health
• Air pollution
• Noise
• Temperature
• Green space
• Physical activity

Principales publicaciones

• Nieuwenhuijsen MJ.  Urban and transport planning pathways to carbon neutral, liveable and healthy cities; A review of the current evidence. Environ Int. 2020 Apr 6:105661.
• 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. Climate crisis, cities, and health. Lancet. 2024 Oct 16:S0140-6736(24)01934-2.
• 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.