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WINNER 2024 » Speakers » Dr. George Downward, MBChB, MSc, PhD
Dr. George Downward, MBChB, MSc, PhD
Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht and an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University

BIOGRAPHY

Universitair Medisch Centrum (UMC) Utrecht, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care

Dr. Downward is an Assistant Professor at UMC Utrecht and an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, where his research focus examines how environmental and planetary disruptions, in combination with personal risk factors, contribute to communicable and non-communicable disease. He has a special interest in planetary health, vulnerable groups, and low-middle income countries.

He undertook his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Otago, New Zealand from 2005 to 2005. Afterwards, he received a degree in Master of Science in Public & Global Health from Umeå University, Sweden. In 2015, George was awarded his PhD in Environmental Epidemiology from Utrecht University for his thesis titled “Quantification and characterization of household air pollution exposure from the use of solid fuels; Clues to the lung cancer epidemic in Xuanwei and Fuyuan, China”

He is a member of several consortia, including the Precision Medicine for more Oxygen (P4O2) and Household Air Pollution Consortium (HAPCO), and has received multiple grants and recognition in the past years, including the Health Effects Institute project, “Long-term outdoor air pollution and cause-specific mortality in a pooled analysis of Asian cohorts”. George’s publications examine the relationship between our changing world and human health in a variety of ways as exampled by recent publications on air pollution on health, the role of scenario analysis in achieving the SDGs, and the importance of sex and gender disaggregated data.