Webinar: Cleaner air through better places - the Directory of resources for planning healthy environments

Heather Rohani-Adair
Heather Adair-Rohani currently leads the work on air quality, energy and health at the World Health Organization Headquarters. She has led the establishment of the Health and Energy Platform of Action, and the High-level Coalition on Health and Energy. She co-led the coordination and development of the WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion and is currently overseeing the work to support countries in the implementation of these Guidelines through the Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit.  She also actively participates and represents WHO at various global initiatives focused on health, air pollution and energy like UN Energy, Sustainable Energy for All, Inter-Agency Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, and the Global Strategy for Women, Children and Adolescent Health.

Pierpaolo Mudu
Dr Pierpaolo Mudu is a technical officer working for WHO-EURO Environment and Health Center in Bonn, Germany. He also collaborates with the 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 assessments of environmental policy interventions in various countries and cities, and the development of the case studies both inside and outside Europe.

Cristina Vert
Dr Cristina Vert is a technical consultant at the WHO Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health in Geneva. She collaborates in the Air Quality, Energy and Health Unit, as well as the Policies and Interventions for Health and Environment Unit. She has recently led the coordination and development of the Directory of resources for planning healthy environments, together with UN-Habitat. She also provides support to the WHO project to expand actions on environment, climate change and health in countries. Her training covers environmental sciences, public health and environmental epidemiology.

Janna Radi Mohamed 
Janna Radi Mohamed is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Global Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, also a WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion. She is currently pursuing a Master of Health Sciences in Translational Research. Her research focuses on mitigation of air pollution exposure through participatory research. 

Losang Sadutshang
Losang Sadutshang is currently a graduate student at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and was a student research analyst at the Centre for Global Health. He is pursuing a Master of Public Health, Social Behavioral Health Sciences, with a Collaborative Specialization in Global Health, and works as a student analyst at the Office of International Affairs, Public Health Agency of Canada. His research interests are in social determinants of health and the role international affairs plays in shaping global health. 

Andrea Cortinez
Andrea is a Chilean physiotherapist with postgraduate studies in Physical Activity and Public Health. In 2006, she founded the NGO Macleta (Women on Bikes), and has continued to deepen the understanding of health and urban planning from academia. She currently serves as a lecturer at the University of Santiago de Chile and conducts research at the University of La Frontera, focusing on promoting health and physical activity through improved urban planning. Her interests span active transportation, the built environment (housing, parks), and public policies that impact these areas. As a member of the Salurbal project (Urban Health in Latin America), Andrea contributed to the development of the Directory of Resources for Planning Healthy Environments. Her work bridges the gap between urban planning and public health, advocating for city planning that encourages active lifestyles and community well-being.

Josiah Kephart
Josiah Kephart, PhD, MPH is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Dr. Kephart’s research focuses on understanding the contribution of climate change, air pollution, and the urban environment to health disparities in Latin America and the United States. He is a co-investigator in the Cambio Climático y Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL-Climate) project. He received an MPH and PhD in exposure science and environmental epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he was awarded an NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowship.

Anne Roué Le Gall 
Dr Anne Roué Le Gall is an associate professor at the EHESP French School of Public Health, in the department of environmental health sciences. Based on her expertise in modelling complex environmental systems, she has set up, since 2010, a research agenda dedicated to health promotion in the field of urban planning, developing decision-making tools and approaches that promote sectoral boundary spanning and facilitate knowledge exchange between scientists, decision-makers and practitioners. She is also involved in several groups of expertise and training programs related to health and environmental impact assessments, healthy urban planning, climate change and health.

Guilhem Dardier
Guilhem Dardier is a senior research officer and PhD candidate at the EHESP French School of Public Health, in the department of human and social sciences. His research focuses on the development and implementation of specific policy instruments that promote health in all policies at the local level (health impact assessment, local health contracts, healthy environments charters and labels, etc.). He is also involved in several training programs on HIA, healthy urban planning and land use planning. Guilhem holds a Master’s degree in political science from Sciences Po Paris and UCSD and a Master’s degree in public health from EHESP.

Graham Alabaster
Dr Graham Alabaster is a public health engineer by profession and is UN-Habitat’s Director of the Geneva office, where he represents the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. He is responsible for liaison with Geneva-based member states missions and international organisations. He holds a BSc (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Civil Engineering. After an early career in academic research in the UK and Africa, and a period in industry, he joined UN-Habitat in 1992. Since then, he has looked after many different portfolios including: Slum upgrading, environmental infrastructure; health and environment; Water, Sanitation and waste management. In addition, he has been responsible for developing relationships with the regional development banks and the private sector.