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Agent based Modelling for Urban Health Impact Assessment
Fri 12 May 2023
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Implementing interventions that tackle the Exposome in complex urban systems can be costly and have long-term, sometimes unforeseen, impacts. Hence, it is crucial to assess the health and social impacts of possible urban exposome interventions before implementing them. Spatial agent-based modelling can capture complex behaviour-environment interactions, exposure dynamics, and social outcomes in a spatial context. Tabea Sonnenschein, a PhD student at the University of Utrecht will present her work on agent-based modeling of transport interventions in Amsterdam.
Her agent-based modeling approach entails the integration of behavioural models of people’s mobility choices and dynamic physical models of environmental stressors (NO2, Noise). The interaction of these sub-models approximates personal behavioural and environmental exposure. Consequently, the accumulated health impacts for various interventions and population groups are assessed using exposure-response functions. She will present model architecture and methodology, the strength and limitations of ABM for health impact assessment, and findings on the effects of transport interventions in Amsterdam.
Venue
| This hybrid seminar will be held in the MRC Epidemiology Unit meeting rooms 1 and 2, Level 3, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, and online.
Register to attend in-person at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tabea-sonnenschein-agent-based-modelling-for-urban-health-impact-assessmen-tickets-604874916157 Register to join this seminar online at: https://mrc-epid.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuce2hqTMoHdI1mSwPdmepMS_e1NukY_Ml#/registration After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. |
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| Address: | MRC Epidemiology Unit Meeting rooms 1 and 2 Institute of Metabolic Science Box 285 Addenbrooke's Hospital Hills Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 0QQ |
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