Healthy Places

The Healthy Places topic seeks to understand how our environments can impact on our health.

We use a range of methods from engagement and citizen science projects with our children, families, and communities, to collecting and analysing environmental and health data and evaluating interventions.

Healthy Places 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...

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...

ATHLETE: Advancing Tools for Human Early Life course Exposome Research and Translation

We are exposed to multiple things in our daily lives which can impact on our health, from air pollution and green spaces, to chemicals used to personal care products and...

Meet the Healthy Places Team

Rosie McEachan

Theme Co-lead

Sally Barber

Lead for Physical Activity Research