Health science

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 current research is sustainability assessments of foods and diets and how the food system can be

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

Synthetic cattle urine in the fight against malaria

World Malaria Day is marked each year on 25 April, and is instituted by the World Health Organization as an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment

Sallam Mohammed

mohammed.abdallah.sallam@slu.se Sallam is a quantitative geneticist with a veterinarian background. Sallam aims to understand the genetics of animal health/performance, and drives approaches for

Urban Forests - Green & Blue Infrastructure for Urban Health and Well-Being

Green & Blue Infrastructure for Urban Health and Well-Being hanna.weiber.post@slu.se The spring semester's third and last webinar in the series on urban forests, arranged by SLU Urban Futures and