Dr James Milner
Associate Professor in Climate Change, Environment and Health
United Kingdom
I am Associate Professor in Climate Change, Environment & Health. My research involves mathematical modelling of environmental interventions and their impacts on human health, with a particular focus on the health effects of climate change mitigation actions. I contribute to the , which is tracking progress on climate change and health. I am also an Associate Member of the UK Government's .
Affiliations
Teaching
I am the module organiser of Environmental Health Policy (PHM206) on the MSc Public Health by Distance Learning.
I also act as a personal tutor on the MSc Public Health and lecture on the modules:
- Environment, Health and Sustainable Development (1125)
- Environmental Epidemiology (1301)
- Environmental Health Policy (1300)
I currently supervise doctoral students working on the following topics:
- Health impacts of active travel in the UK
- Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to support 'nutrition-sensitive' agriculture
Research
I currently work on the following research projects:
- (ARCADE, funded by UKRI-Defra)
- Children, Cities and Climate (CCC Action Lab, funded by Fondation Botnar)
- (funded by NIHR)
- Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health (funded by NIHR)
- Pathfinder Initiative (funded by Wellcome Trust)
- (PAICE, funded by Wellcome Trust)
- (funded by NERC)
Recently completed projects include:
- (ASPIRE, funded by EPSRC)
- (AMPHoRA, funded by NIHR)
- (funded by the Government of Ireland)
- (funded by NERC)
- (CUSSH, funded by Wellcome Trust)
- (funded by UKERC)