I am an epidemiologist and geographer with a particular focus on the roles which environments can play in creating, maintaining and perhaps reducing inequalities in health.

Prior to joining Glasgow, I was Associate Director of the Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Earlier in my career I focused on monitoring and exploring socio-economic and geographic inequalities in health and how they might be narrowed. Today, my focus is on the potential for different aspects of environment to positively influence population health and reduce health inequalities.

I have a particular interest in natural environments such as urban woodlands and parks. I am is co-director of the Centre for Research on Environment, Society and Health, an interdisciplinary and multi-institute centre, focused on exploring how physical and social environments can influence population health, for better and for worse.