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

Environmental Quality Perceptions and Health of Citizens of Kaunas

ideasforchange2020-07-07T10:44:51+02:0007/07/2020|

The perception of urban environmental quality is an important contributor when identifying local problems in sustainable development and environmental planning policy. A citizen science study lead by Professor Regina Grazuleviciene, from the Department of Environmental [...]

This is how the CitieS-Health community has experienced the effects on mental health and pollution of Covid-19

ideasforchange2020-06-25T17:12:56+02:0025/06/2020|

Beyond its severity in the healthcare field, the Covid-19 crisis has created a highly challenging scenario for our society. Concern about the eventual loss of employment or income, the difficulty in reconciling work with family [...]

How COVID19 pandemic has affected CitieS-Health project

ideasforchange2020-06-25T17:12:08+02:0025/06/2020|

Due the COVID19 crisis, all activities of CitieS-Health pilot projects with citizens have been stopped and new studies during the pandemic were considered but discarded. The affectation and plans are strongly city-dependent. The pilot project [...]

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