Professor of Health and Environment, leads the Places and Health Programme at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow.
Utilising innovative quantitative methodologies, Rich’s team investigates how places integrate into complex systems that shape health outcomes. Their approach includes employing wearable technologies to track children’s movements, employing agent-based models to simulate human-environment interactions, and utilising GIS to visualise and comprehend spatial dimensions of population health.