Health science

Urban Forests: Mapping health promoting urban green spaces; why and how?

henrik.j.persson@slu.se Urban Forests seminar with Helena Nordh, professor of landscape architecture at SLU. Urban greenery is essential for fostering health-promoting cities. In this presentation

Improving milk quality for enhanced food safety and child nutrition in Rwanda

Today, 19 December, Jean Pierre Mpatswenumugabo defended his thesis in which he investigated the factors affecting milk production and quality on smallholder dairy farms in Rwanda’s Northern Province

Dr. Anna María Pálsdóttir

anna.maria.palsdottir@slu.se Docent i landskapsarkitektur med inriktning i miljöpsykologi Universitetslektor i naturbaserade och naturunderstödda interventioner. In my work as a researcher in

The chemical cocktail in the bodies of Swedish young people reflects country of birth, place of residence and gender

The number of chemicals is steadily increasing in our environment and also in ourselves. However, the chemical mix that today's school youth in Sweden carry within them looks different in different

Urban Forests: The effect of nearby greenspace on the health of city dwellers

henrik.j.persson@slu.se Welcome to the second Urban Forests seminar of the fall semester. This time, we welcome Sjerp de Vries, researcher in Environmental psychology at the University of Wageningen

Crhystian Torres Rodriguez

crhystian.torres.rodriguez@slu.se DVM, MSc, PhD. - Klinikveterinär vid Institutionen för Kliniska Vetenskaper (KV-UDS), Smådjur Operation. Universitetsadjunkt vid Institutionen för Kliniska

Wastewater reveals increased usage of sweeteners

Analysing wastewater can reveal the usage of artificial sweeteners. A newly published study shows their consumption patterns in several Swedish cities. Researchers recently published a study showing

Bridging disciplines through Urban Healthscapes

Urban Healthscapes is a useful concept to facilitate interdisciplinary research on health issues in urban settings. This was one of the key messages from a recent webinar arranged in collaboration

Omar Hmeadi

omar.hmeadi@slu.se https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=nYu9TBcAAAAJ&hl=en https://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0001-8893-7348   https://www.linkedin.com/in/omar-hmeadi-b321ba71/ https://

Javad Mottaghipisheh

javad.mottaghipisheh@slu.se My current research is focused on application of state-of-the-art mass spectrometry tools to investigate environmental organic micropollutants, in particular focusing on

Maria Jacobsen

maria.jacobsen@slu.se My research aims at promoting healthy and sustainable food consumption. My research focuses on sustainability aspects and sustainability assessments of food and diets. I

The Human-land podcast

Human Land is now launching three episodes of Series 2, where we aim to explore how environmental psychology could support us in a system change towards healthy societies, with a socio-ecological