The London School is a postgraduate medical school within the University of London, with an annual research income of around £36M. It is one of the leading schools of public health and tropical medicine in Europe and is Britain's national school of public health. Its mission is to contribute to the improvement of health worldwide through the pursuit of excellence in research, postgraduate teaching and advanced training in national and international public health and tropical medicine, and through informing policy and practice in these areas. The Public & Environmental Health Research Unit (PEHRU) is a multi-disciplinary unit of around 60 staff which carries out research into the social and environmental determinants of health and the evaluation and analysis of related public health policy. It has a strong research international programme with principal themes in environmental epidemiology, health impact and decision analysis and participatory research. Among its current portfolio are studies on outdoor and indoor air pollution, housing and health, climate change, water quality, and community participation. It has strong international links with such bodies as the World Health Organization, the EC, and the World Bank.
For INTARESE the London School will contribute epidemiological expertise in the areas of housing and health and the health impacts of climate change, drawing on recent UK and European studies and the data sets available from them. They will also use their expertise in methods of epidemiological risk assessment, health impact analysis and community participation relevant to several study components.
Anthony Fletcher PhD, is experienced in environmental and occupational epidemiology, and risk assessment of toxic chemicals. He has coordinated two EU 5 th FP projects: ASHRAM, on cancer risks in relation to drinking water contaminated with arsenic, and PATY, a multi country study of children’s respiratory health and pollution.
Paul Wilkinson, Head of the Public and Environmental Health Research Unit, has research interests in the health impacts of air pollution and of climate change (coordinating a collaborative programme with the UK's Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research). He has had a leading role in the epidemiological research to support the development of the UK's Home Health and Safety Rating System, and in the evaluation of the health impacts of a national home energy efficiency programme.
LSHTM will take a lead role in work package 3.2 (housing and health) and will contribute to a number of others, including 1.1 (Assessment framework), 1.5 (Cross-cutting issues), 3.4 (water), 3.7 (climate) and components of the integrated assessment methods and the assessment toolbox (WP4.2).
