Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief
Marcus Grant , Expert Advisor to the World Health Organization and UN-Habitat

Assistant Editor: Partnerships and community engagement lead
Hannah Arnett , Studio altaa, UK

Associate Editors
with urban form, natural environment, and urban analytics interests, Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
for COVID-19, communicable and vector-borne disease, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Health Services Academy, Islamabad, Pakistan
with built environment specialisation, Kevin Lau, Lulea Tekniksda Universitet, Sweden
with urban poverty and affordable urban housing specialisations, Aamir Gul Mattoo, University of Kashmir, India
with epidemiological specialisation, Faatihah Niyi-Odumosu, UWE Bristol, UK
with spatial analysis and active mobility interests, Greg Rybarczyk, University of Michigan-Flint, USA
with city planning and architecture design,  Marcelo Sbarra, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
with specialisation in GIS and children's wellbeing, Roula Zougheibe, Government of Western Australia, Department of Health, Australia


City Know-how platform and concept development
Álvaro Valera Sosa
, Building Health Lab, Berlin, Germany


Visual Content Advisor
Gareth Davey
, University of Bolton in England, United Kingdom

Social Media Team
Social media editor and team co-ordinator, Ilaria Geddes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Team members, Yilun Li, Lan Luo and Sibei Liu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Editorial Board
Deepti Adlakha, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Ben Beck, Monash University, Australia
Waleska Caiaffa, Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tzuyuan Stessa Chao, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Jason Corburn, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Carlos J. Crespo, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Geraint Ellis, Queen’s University, Belfast, UK
Colin Fudge, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and RMIT University, Australia
Ilaria Geddes, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Philippa Howden-Chapman, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand
Roderick J. Lawrence, University of Geneva and United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), Malaysia
Blessing Mberu, African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), Kenya
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
Tolullah Oni, University of Cambridge, UK
Helen Pineo, University of Washington, USA
Antonella Radicchi, European Urban Initiative Expert, Florence, Italy
Olga Sarmiento, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Alvaro Valera Sosa, Building Health Lab, Berlin, Germany
Yonette Thomas, UrbanHealth360
Cor Wagenaar, TU Berlin, Germany and TU Delft, Netherlands
Catharine Ward Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK

Special Advisor
Hugh Barton, Emeritus Professor, WHO Collaborating Centre for healthy urban environments & University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

Editorial Advisors
Paivi Abernethy, Royal Roads University, Canada
Kaliopa Dimitrovska Andrews, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia
Matthew Carmona, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK
Gökçen Caymaz, Istanbul Aydin University, Turkey
Thomas Classen, NRW Centre for Health, Germany
Yang Dongfeng, Dalian University of Technology, China
Hans Keune, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Belgium
Amelia Lake, Teesside University, UK
Han-Liang Lin, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Sarah Lindley, University of Manchester, UK
Ruca Mass, NTNU Center for Health Promotion Research, Norway
Layla McCay, Director, Centre for Urban Design and Mental Health, Tokyo
Jaime Miranda, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
Ebele Mọgọ, ERIM Consulting, Canada
Erlijn Mulder, Utrecht Municipality, Netherlands
Paul Pilkington, Consultant in Public Health, Public Health Wales, UK
Sridevi Rao, Independent consultant, India
Chao Ren, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Victor Rodwin, New York University, USA
Jose Siri, Independent consultant, USA
Hillary Shiverenje Songole , Makerere University, Kenya
Maheep Singh Thapar, Director, Adapt Technologies, India
Tim Townshend, Newcastle University, UK
Arpana Verma, University of Manchester, UK
Sotiris Vardoulakis, Australian National University, Australia
Hannah Wright, Independent consultant, UK  

The Editor-in-Chief would like to express particular thanks to the following for their support with the establishment of this journal:

Oliver Bennett, Founding editor,  International Journal of Cultural Policy
Fiona Counsell, Open Access Publisher, Taylor & Francis Group
Evelyne de Leeuw, Editor-in-Chief,  Health Promotion International
David Vlahov, Editor-in-Chief,  Journal of Urban Health

Updated 16-04-2024