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Rich Mitchell is Professor of Health
and Environment at the Public Health
Unit, University of Glasgow. Rich is
an epidemiologist and geographer
with a particular focus on the roles
which environments can play in
creating, maintaining and perhaps reducing inequalities in health. Prior
to joining Glasgow, Rich was
Associate Director of the Research
Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change
at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Earlier in his career he focused on monitoring and exploring socio-economic and geographic inequalities in health and how they might be narrowed. Today, his
focus is on the potential for green spaces to positively influence population health and health inequalities.
Jolanda Maas
Jolanda Maas is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of
Public and Occupational Health and
the EMGO Institute of the VU
University Medical Center in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Jens Troelsen Associate Professor
is doing research in the associations between the built environment and physical activity and health. He is
research project manager of several studies, including the intervention study “The Impact of a Structural, Comprehensive Strategy for the Promotion of Physical Activity and
Health in Local Districts”, and the
bicycle research project
“Environmental determinants for
bike-ability” part of “Bikeability.dk
– cities for zero-emission travel and public health.” He joins in as national principal investigator in the
“International Study of Built
Environment, Physical Activity, and Obesity” (IPEN). Jens Troelsen is
head of the research group “Space
and Movement”, Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark
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Rich Mitchell
Rich is a member of the Scottish
Government’s Good Places, Better Health Evaluation Group, with a remit to provide
strategic thinking on environment and
health. He is also a co-founder of the
Centre for Research on Environment,
Society and Health (http://cresh.org.uk),
an interdisciplinary and inter-institute
centre, focused on exploring how
physical and social environments can influence population health, for better
and for worse.
She completed her Masters in Sociology
at the Utrecht University in Utrecht in
2002. In 2009 she published her PhD
thesis about the relation between the
amount of green space in the living environment and health. In her PhD
thesis she first investigated whether
there is a relation between the amount
of green space in the living environment
and health. Thereafter she investigated
if the relation could be explained through mechanisms as stress recovery, social contacts and physical activity.
Currently she works on several studies
which investigate the relation between
the environment and physical activity.
For example, she is project manager
of a project called 'Park of Perk?' which uses qualitative measures (GPS-tracking and interviews) to investigate neighbourhoods should be designed to stimulate physical activity.
Jens Troelsen
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