Jamie Pearce is Professor of Health Geography at the University of Edinburgh. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Environment, Society & Health (CRESH), which brings together researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh to explore how physical and social environments can influence population health.
Jamie works at the intersection of human geography, public health and epidemiology. His particular interests include health-related behaviours (e.g. smoking, nutrition, physical activity and obesity), environmental justice and health, and macro-level health-related processes (e.g. social and economic inequality). He is Principal Investigator of the five-year project, Physical Built Environments and Health Inequalities (PHYBEHI), grant funded to the value of £1 million by the European Research Council.
Jamie’s contribution to MMP is focused on Topic 3, Life course of places, health & mobility.
> Human Geography Research at the University of Edinburgh
> CRESH
> PHYBEHI
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Jamie Pearce in the MMP Media Centre
VIDEO > Why is urban health so unequal?
Public lecture, recorded on 7th May 2014, at Resilient Cities (Urbanisation and Health); part of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Academies’ Environment and Health Under the Microscope series. YouTube recording lasts: 25min 17secs
ACADEMIC PAPER > Environmental justice and health: A study of multiple environmental deprivation and geographical inequalities in health in New Zealand
Pearce, J., Richardson, E., Mitchell, R. and Shortt, N.
Social Science and Medicine 73(3): 410-420 (2011)
Pearce, J., Richardson, E., Mitchell, R. and Shortt, N.
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(4): 522-539 (2010)
Jamie Pearce speaking at the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation (ECCI)
