Rosie McEachan

Theme Co-lead

Rosie McEachan is the Director of Born in Bradford and a proud (Scottish) Bradfordian. She is an experienced applied health researcher with particular interests in the development and evaluation of complex interventions, environmental determinants of health, green space, air quality, and co-production. Rosie holds an honorary chair position at the University of Bradford and co-leads the Early Life and Prevention theme of the Y&H ARC.

Rosie McEachan's latest projects

Healthy Urban Places

The Healthy Urban Places project (HUP) is exploring how the places where people live can impact their physical and mental health. The project focuses on two areas – Bradford District...

Born in Bradford

Launched in 2007, Born in Bradford (BiB) is an internationally-recognised research programme which aims to find out what keeps families healthy and happy by tracking the lives of over 40,000...

BiB Breathes

Yorkshire and Humber ARC’s Born in Bradford research found that air pollution was associated with poor growth of babies in the womb, higher blood pressure in children and poorer brain...

Rosie McEachan's latest publications

Ambient air pollution and childhood obesity from infancy to late childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 10 European birth cohorts

Children’s happiness and the school route: Linking perceptions of the built environment to wellbeing

Yearlong study of indoor VOC variability: insights into spatial, temporal, and contextual dynamics of indoor VOC exposure

The INGENIOUS project: towards understanding air pollution in homes

Childhood exposure to non-persistent endocrine disruptors, glucocorticosteroids, and attentional function: A cross-sectional study based on the parametric g-formula

Unlocking the forest: An ethnographic evaluation of Forest Schools on developmental outcomes for 3-year-olds unaccustomed to woodland spaces

Other Team members

Sunil Bhopal

Theme Co-Lead

Kate Morton

Research Fellow

Sarah Blower

Principal Research Fellow