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

Why and How we could Co-create Research Projects in Environmental Epidemiology

ideasforchange2021-03-11T17:33:52+01:0011/03/2021|

Some citizen science (CS) projects have been developed in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to citizens concerns. Nevertheless, CS projects related to environmental epidemiology are limited because of [...]

Citizen Science as Part of the Primary School Curriculum: A Case Study on Noise and Health

ideasforchange2021-03-11T17:34:16+01:0018/12/2020|

Lessons learned leading citizen science (CS) activities within the CitieS-Health H2020 project on the topic of noise exposure and health at a primary school in Ljubljana, Slovenia, will be useful for other CS projects. These [...]

The social environment and the quality of the built environment had an effect on disparities in the risk of hypertension

ideasforchange2020-10-30T16:35:48+01:0030/10/2020|

The CitieS-Health pilot project at Kaunas, Lithuania, is a citizen science study that has involved participants from the general public to help answer relevant scientific questions and to generate new knowledge. The major challenges of [...]

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School Streets, la iniciativa para que los niños vayan andando o en bicicleta a la escuela, mejorar la calidad del aire, aumentar la seguridad e incentivar la movilidad sostenible ¿Alguien conoce alguna similar a esta en España? http://schoolstreets.org.uk/why-school-streets/
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