New paper in The Lancet Public Health today exploring city mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…… @AkaraciSelin Dr. Ruoyu George Wang @RodrigoReisPhD Pedro Hallal Alex Pentland PHPE Unit Leandro Garcia QUB Public Health mothlight Belen Zapata-Diomedi Esteban Moro

This global study of policies enacted in 39 cities in response to mobility during the onset of COVID-19 revealed which policies were most effective in increasing and improving mobility patterns within cities. What do you think did better - walking or public transit? #CityMobility

Great to have the opportunity to work with Age NI and ThePaulHogarthCo on this work to understand the challenges and solutions to healthy ageing in rural and coastal environments. New report out today with the SPACE QUB project funded by SBDRP | Healthy Ageing Challenge UK Research and Innovation

New paper! 🚨 Published today in Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health An increase of green space in most deprived urban neighbourhoods of England, NI, and Scotland is associated with lower preventable death count 🌳 Read the blog 🔗bit.ly/3CoLeyK

WEBINAR! Not all green and blue spaces are accessible to everyone🌳 Join us for a webinar where we will hear from individuals working in these spaces to make them more accessible and inclusive for all 🌊 📅 Tues 3rd Dec, 1-2pm on Zoom Register now 🔗 bit.ly/48NPQe1

Brilliant 1st day of the GroundsWell Consortium retreat in Liverpool. A great afternoon hearing from our fantastic early career researchers and their work - check it out in this thread

If you missed our webinar on accessibility and inclusion in green and blue spaces, you can catch up with the recording below ⬇️ youtube.com/watch?v=axLcuR…

Congratulations Sophie Glover & team on our publication highlighting #environment->biological change->#cognition impact Oxford Journals C Hill Ruth Hunter Bernadette McGuinness academic.oup.com/eep/advance-ar… #methylation #epigenetic QUB Public Health #recommendations

Ruth presenting an overview of SPACE today to the All-Party Group on Ageing and Older People Helen (Age NI) and James (The Paul Hogarth Company) also presented an overview of findings from our report on Healthy Ageing in Rural and Coastal Areas of Northern Ireland 🌊

Did you catch us in the NI Science Festival brochure? Researchers from SPACE QUB and GroundsWell Consortium are teaming up with Armagh Observatory & Planetarium again, and taking our No Planet B show on the road! 🌍 Drop in 10am-4pm - Derry, Dungannon, Belfast. Totally FREE! More info ⬇️ nisciencefestival.com/events/no-plan…

Yesterday we hosted our final systems mapping workshop on preventing Violence Against Women and Girls in public outdoor spaces - a huge thank you to participants 🌳 Our next steps involve refining the map and priority actions, and bringing these to a citizen panel. Stay tuned!

Find us in Foyleside Shopping Centre Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th for the first stop on our #NISF2025 roadshow! NI Science Festival Armagh Observatory & Planetarium GroundsWell Consortium QUB Public Health Public Engagement MHLS nisciencefestival.com/events/no-plan…

Come join us Foyleside Shopping Centre for the first day of No Planet B 🪐 Meet Rock from Armagh Observatory & Planetarium to learn about space, and meet some the SPACE and GroundsWell Consortium research team to build lego, colour and make DNA models 🧬 #NISF2025

Thanks to everyone who joined us Foyleside Shopping Centre today for day 1 of our #NISF2025 roadshow! We will be back 9-4pm Foyleside Shopping Centre tomorrow with Armagh Observatory & Planetarium🪐Join us to hear more about No Planet B!

Today we are back for one last day Foyleside Shopping Centre with Armagh Observatory & Planetarium for NI Science Festival #NISF2025 Join us 10-4pm for a free day of activities🪐

We had Andrew Muir MLA join us this morning at our No Planet B event - Andrew caught one of our videos in the dome and chatted to the team about our research into health and the environment #NISF25

DAERA Minister Andrew Muir MLA called into the pop-up roadshow No Plan B The MAC which is part of the Northern Ireland Science Festival NI Science Festival SPACE QUB

Thanks to everyone for joining our Planning for Healthy Ageing in Rural and Coastal Areas webinar🌊 Ruth, Helen (Age NI) and James (ThePaulHogarthCo) provided an overview of our findings ✨ Recording to come and report below ⬇️ bit.ly/3OyeR3o

Great to hear some wonderful stories about children across Belfast getting to improve their school's outdoor spaces! We are thrilled to support the work of Belfast Healthy Cities in delivering Healthy Places, Healthy Children through our Community Innovation Fund 🌳

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