Pierpaolo Mudu

Pierpaolo Mudu is a statistician/geographer working for WHO-EURO Environment and Health Center in Bonn and WHO Headquarters in Geneva. His most recent works include the coordination of AirQ+, the software that calculates the impacts of air pollution on health, several impact assessment of environmental policy interventions in various countries and cities, and the development of the case studies in Accra (Ghana) and Kathmandu (Nepal) for the Urban Health Initiative. He is also coordinating the development of a QGIS plug-in (GreenUr) for the assessment of the impacts of green spaces on health. He is part of the steering committee of the Air Quality Guidelines. Examples of recent co-authored publications can be found in: Lancet Planetary Health on “Green spaces and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.”; BMJ on “Environmental risks and non-communicable diseases.”; Lancet on “Reduce air pollution to beat NCDs: from recognition to action.” He has been involved in several EU projects such as ISHTAR, HEARTS or URGENCHE.