CitieS-Health

Citizens leading the research on urban pollution & health

OUR MISSION

CitieS-Health aims to put citizens’ concerns at the heart of research agenda on environmental epidemiology by tackling health issues that concern them.

Groups of citizens in five cities in Europe will design and run experiments to explore how the pollution in their living environment is affecting their health.

The project will create an interactive toolkit with customised tools and best practices for the replication of the studies in other locations by researchers, individuals and citizen groups.

ABOUT US

Environment
How polluted is the environment where I live, work, train?
Citizens collect data about their environment to measure the level of pollution
CITIZEN-LED GOVERNANCE
I want to make decisions over the research process and the fate of the data I collect
Ethical and governance aspects are key concerns in CitieS-Health. Citizens are engaged not as mere assistants to researchers, but mainly as scientists who play a central role in identifying research priorities. Moreover, CitieS-Health promotes debates about data sharing in research and provides citizens with knowledge and tools to make decisions about the conditions under which the data collected can be used and re-used.
HEALTH
How pollution is affecting my health and that of my neighbours?
Citizens monitor their health parameters to know the effects of environmental exposures in their health.
TOOLKIT
I want to replicate the study in my neighborhood, city, university… Where do I start?
The CitieS-Health interactive toolkit will provide guidelines, tools and best practices to inspire other people to replicate the studies. It caters to three key actors:
Scientists who want to adopt citizen science approaches in their research studies
NGOs, public health agencies and neighborhood groups who want to tackle health issues in their community through a participatory approach
Individuals who are concerned about a particular environmental issue and want to understand its impact on their health.

PARTICIPATE

We are launching citizen science studies in the
following cities. If you want to take part, get in touch!

LATEST NEWS

CitieS-Health pilot project in Barcelona: Selection of the research question with the citizens

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During the first phases of the CitieS-Health pilot project in Barcelona, we worked face-to-face with the citizens to obtain their insights, which will ultimately help defining a research project that will be implemented in [...]

Citizens in Barcelona collectively choose the research question for their pilot

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On September 28 we launched the pilot in Barcelona together with the citizens. In this session, the participants proposed research topics on the effects of pollution on respiratory health and mental health, and provided possible [...]

Measuring pollution at Spodnja Šiška Elementary School

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On last September 26, the OŠ Spodnja Šiška elementary school in Ljubljana has received a visit of researchers as a part of CitieS-Health H2020 project and INSA/SAZU bilateral exchange program. The aim of this initiative was to generate awareness among the [...]

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Lisa Friedman @LFFriedman·
07/04/2020
NEW: Important research from @HarvardChanSPH linking dirty air with coronavirus deaths. It's the 1st nationwide study & it finds places with even slightly higher PM 2.5 levels will likely have far higher Covid-19 death rates than less polluted areas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html
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CityLab@CityLab·
07/04/2020
"Cycleways and pedestrian routes make transport more resilient, and fairer. They are immune to oil prices, and quite resilient to extreme weather and viruses." https://trib.al/zRF1wiT
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