The EXPANSE project is studying the complex mixture of social and environmental factors in the urban environment that collectively have an impact on health. The aim of the project is to address one of the central dilemmas facing urban planners, policy makers, and European citizens: “How to improve one’s health and wellbeing in a modern urban environment?”
The project’s objectives are presented in the graphic below.
Read the Expanse project profile paper published in Environmental Epidemiology. A full list of scientific publications linked to the project is available here.
For a full list of public deliverables, click here.
Utrecht University, Netherlands (Project Coordination)
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain
Columbia University, USA
Department of Epidemiology of the Regional Health Service Lazio, Italy
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), France
Game Solutions Lab BV, Netherlands
Helmholtz Research Centre for Environmental Health, Germany
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), France
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Masaryk University, Czech Republic
M2M4ALL, Netherlands
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Switzerland
Utrecht University Medical Centre, Netherlands
VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, Netherlands
University of Tartu, Estonia
