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The Environ-Mental Health Nexus is comprised of academics

from the UK and globally

Our team are top scholars in their fields and bring to the EMHN the interdisciplinary skills necessary to complete our work, including world-leading expertise in social complexity, transdisicplinary methods, environmental exposure modeling, environmental health, health inequalities, lived-experience, mental health, cognitive development, neuroscience, dementia and ageing, and the evaluation of interventions in complex systems.

Team

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Brian Castellani

Director

Social Complexity,

Mental Health

and Exposome

Durham University

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Cristina Costa

Co-Director

Digital Methods and

lived Experience

Durham University

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Jonathan Wistow

Co-Director

Health Inequalities

Complexities of Place

Durham University

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Barbara Bechter

Co-Director

Workforce Health

and Wellbeing

Durham University

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Charlotte Clarke

Academic Researcher

Healthy Ageing, Dementia and Cognitive Frailty

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Geo-Health

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Biostatistics and

Radiation Exposure Risks

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Neuroscience and

Brain Health

Durham University

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Angela Filipe

Academic Researcher

Diagnosis, Neurodiversity, Eco-Anxiety.

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Mental Health Digital Technologies

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Healthy Ageing, Cognitive Frailty, Minority Mental Health

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Role of Environment

in Health Behaviors

Durham University

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Lasse Gerrits

Academic Researcher

Urban Planning, Resilience and Social Complexity

Erasmus University

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Stefan Reis

Academic Researcher

Earth Systems Modelling,

Air Pollution, Brain Health

DLR Projektträger

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Academic Researcher

Biostatistics and

Radiation Exposure Risks

Durham University

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Academic Researcher

Neuroscience and

Brain Health

Durham University

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