NERC/MRC/COS Improving Health with Environmental Data call

CSO contributed funding towards three projects awarded in 2016 for this call for research to identify and fill knowledge gaps around the potential of environmental data to improve health outcomes in the UK, focusing on using environmental data on air pollution and/or environmental hazards alongside health and biomedical data (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/innovation/activities/environmentaldata/health-call/).

 
Title Organisation Lead PI Funding Amount
 Modelling historical air pollution and dementia/cognitive decline – towards a life course approach University of Edinburgh Dr Thomas Russ £45,581
Improving Predictive Asthmas Algorithms with Modelled Environmental Data for Scotland University of Edinburgh Dr Colin Simpson £63,455
Environmental determinants of IVF treatment University of Edinburgh Dr Tom Clemens £51,806