Phd Health Impact Assessment Position

**Descripción**:
The Barcelona Institute for Global Health, ISGlobal, is the fruit of an innovative alliance between academic, government, and philanthropic institutions to contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address the challenges in global health.
UBD Policy “the urban burden of disease estimation for policy making” is a 4-years Horizon Europe project grant number 101094639 coordinated by ISGobal.

**THE URBAN BURDEN OF DISEASE ESTIMATION FOR POLICY MAKING (UBDPolicy)**

In Europe, more than 70% of the population lives in urban areas. Cities have long been known to be society’s predominant engine of innovation and wealth creation, yet they are also a main source of pollution, disease and mortality, which is to some extent linked to suboptimal urban and transport planning practices.

UBDPOLICY aims to improve the estimation of health impacts and socio-economic costs and/or benefits of environmental stressors, advance methodological approaches and foster their acceptance as common good practice for urban areas, to help strengthen evidence-based policy making at city, national and EU level. The project will focus on nearly 1000 cities and environmental stressors including air pollution, noise, temperature/heat and lack of green space. UBDPOLICY will also include physical activity as a main determinant of health and examine the effects of gender and inequality in the impact estimations.

The project aims to produce a system that will provide updates every three years to be able to monitor progress. It will extensively involve stakeholders and conduct knowledge translation. UBDPOLICY will use transdisciplinary and systemic approaches bringing together a team of, amongst others, experts and practitioners in urban and transport planning, environment and public health, economics, retail and business, education sector, policy analysis, knowledge translation and involve citizens and NGOs.

**Lugar**:

- ISGlobal Campus Mar**What we are looking for**:
The PhD student will conduct Health impact assessment of urban and transport planning scenarios and related exposures in European cities. S/he will extend the UTOPHIA tool (Urban and TranspOrt Planning Health Impact Assessment tool) and other HIA tools and methods. S/he work will produce health and social-economic cost/benefit estimates for nearly 1000 European cities with 3-yearly updates to be able to monitor trends and impacts of urban planning, transport planning and environmental policies, and more in-depth analyses in a few selected case study cities.

**Main duties and tasks**:
To conduct quantitative analysis and health impact assessments. The PhD student will work together with others on the study to conduct the statistical analyses and work on engagement with stakeholders and consortium members.

**Requirements**:
Strong motivation to engage in interdisciplinary and intersectoral work
Willingness to participate in consortium training events, dissemination and engaging activities
Strong skills in English, written as well as oral
Degree in public health or equivalent
Experience in health impact assessment
Capable of working with large datasets
Programming in R and/or Python
Skills in writing and reporting
Good organisational skills
Good communications skills
Can work in groups

**Training and experience**:
Experience on the analysis of quantitative data and health impact assessment.

**Skills**:

- Teamwork
- Problem resolution
- Learning capacity

**Languages**:
English

**Auxiliar task**:
This job description reflects the present requirements of the post but may evolve at any time in the future as duties and responsibilities change and/or develop providing there is appropriate consultation with the post-holder.

**We offer**:

- A 12 months full-time appointment (40h/week) to be extended with a further 24 months (for a total of 3 years) contingent on a satisfactory performance during the first period.
- An exciting, multi-disciplinary and international research environment with ample opportunities for exchange with scholars from related disciplines at the universities and research institutes in the consortium, as well as with the local partner organizations and local stakeholders.
- Additional training and networking opportunities through participation in international conferences

**The following documents are required**:

- Letter of motivation
- Curriculum Vitae
- Contact details of two referees (no recommendation letter)
- Writing sample (e.g. student’s paper or chapter thesis) preferably in English
- Passport copy

**Eligibility criteria**:
300 ECTS in relevant Degrees

The post holder will adhere to ISGlobal principles contained in People management policy, including Equity, diversity and health safety. The post holder will respect, and accountable to ensure ISGlobal policies and procedures.

**Field research**:

- Biological sciences
- Environmental science
- Medical science

**Conditions**:

- Duration: 3 ye