Environmental Child Health Research Group

We are the Environmental Child Health Research Group – a team of researchers using large, administrative databases to study how the local environment affects children’s health as they are growing up. With a commitment to investigating and mitigating health disparities, we are particularly interested in the impacts of climate change, pollution exposures, and indoor environments in homes, schools and their surroundings on children’s health and education outcomes. 

These are some of the research areas we are working on:

• The impact of air pollution and housing quality on respiratory health in early childhood
• School and nursery environments and child health
• Inequalities in access to greenspaces and exposure to air pollution around schools and nurseries in England
• Greenspace access and children’s psychological health and well-being
• Heat during pregnancy and perinatal and infant health
• We are also delighted to be working on establishing the:

A national administrative data birth cohort for research for environmental child health research.

The Environmental Child Health Research Group is part of the Child Health Informatics Group at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.

Proudly collaborating with
In partnership with:
Supported by:
		UCL Health of the Public        Child Health Research Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)