Project “Building bridges”: 2-year extension granted / Projekt “Brückenbau“: 2jährige Fortsetzung bewilligt

Today, the Fritz und Hildegard Berg Foundation (http://stiftungen.stifterverband.info/t133_berg/) which is managed within the Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.org/english), granted another 2-year extension of our project “Building bridges across disciplines and sectors” / Heute bewilligte die Fritz und Hildegard Berg-Stiftung (http://stiftungen.stifterverband.info/t133_berg/), die dem Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.org) angehört, erneut eine zweijährige Fortsetzung unseres Projektes “Disziplinärer und sektoraler Brückenbau”.

The project is located at Universität Bielefeld, School of Public Health, Department Environmental Health (Prof. Dr. Claudia Hornberg), and is part of the Berg foundation’s research program “City of the Future – Healthy, sustainable metropolises” (www.urban-health.de) / Das Projekt ist angesiedelt an der Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Arbeitsgruppe Umwelt und Gesundheit (Prof. Dr. Claudia Hornberg) und gehört zum Förderprogramm der Berg-Stiftung „Stadt der Zukunft: Gesunde, nachhaltige Metropolen“ (www.stadt-und-gesundheit.de).

Julia Nowacki (2018): The integration of health into environmental assessments – with a special focus on strategic environmental assessment. [Dissertation at the University Bielefeld, Germany]. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe.

Download: www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/environment-and-health/health-impact-assessment/publications/2018/the-integration-of-health-into-environmental-assessments-with-a-special-focus-on-strategic-environmental-assessment-2018

From the abstract: “This research project examines the integration of health into environmental assessment such as environmental impact assessments (EIA) and strategic environmental assessments (SEA), and analyses the challenges and opportunities that EIA and SEA offer to further address health issues. The overall objective of the research was to identify the main methods, tools, institutional and procedural factors that facilitate the integration of environmental health aspects into environmental assessments such as SEA…”

Keywords: Environmental Health, Environmental Monitoring, Health Impact Assessment, Public Health

p.XVI: “… This publication presents the doctoral thesis of Julia Nowacki, submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences – Bielefeld School of Public Health, University Bielefeld, Germany, in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Public Health, on 01 September 2017 by Dipl. Päd. Julia Nowacki, MPH. Prof. Dr. med. Rainer Fehr, MPH, Ph.D., Faculty of Health Sciences, University Bielefeld, Germany, served as the first supervisor of the doctoral thesis and Prof. Dr. Claudia Hornberg, Dipl.-Biol. Dipl.-Ökol., Faculty of Health Sciences, University Bielefeld, Germany, as the second supervisor. The examination and thesis defense committee was completed by Dr. Thomas Claßen, Landeszentrum Gesundheit North Rhine-Westphalia, Bochum, Germany. …”

See / Siehe  6 Sep 2018.