Margarita
Triguero Mas

Dr. Margarita Triguero-Mas is an environmental health scientist working at the intersection of public health, urban planning and environmental justice and a world expert on the health impacts of urban nature, with a particular focus on health equity. Currently she is a senior researcher at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) and an Associated Assistant Professor level at ISGlobal (Barcelona Institute for Global Health) and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ). Apart from book chapters, she has co-authored >70 papers published in peer reviewed journals (google scholar h-index=44, >13300 citations; >70% in Q1, >40% in D1 journals; >30% papers as first/corresponding/last). Her work has informed 500 policy documents, including documents from the US and the European Environmental Protection Agencies, the World Health Organization, the European Comission and United Nations. In the last four years she has been consistently among the most cited and influential scientists in the world. She has been recently awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship (2021 call) and the scientific co-coordination of a Horizon Europe project to identify ways in which effective nature-based therapies and a broader green care framework can be scaled-up to improve adult mental health and wellbeing equity in Europe while contributing to multiple socio-ecological co-benefits. Since 2018, she has raised > €8.8M through proposals to competitive research and innovation funding calls or contracts for commissioned work. Through her research career, she has collaborated in >10 national and international funded projects in the US, Spain, and Sweden (mostly with coordination or leading roles) and has built a strong international trajectory. She has experience and expertise in specific areas of: (i) self-perceived general and mental health, cognitive function, and stress; (ii) exposure assessment and specific exposure factors such as gentrification, air pollution, green space, UV exposure, noise, temperature, rainfall and physical activity, and (iii) she also has experience and expertise in specific methodologies both quantitative (questionnaires, smartphones, GIS, personal sensors) but also qualitative and participatory research. Fields: Environmental health // Planetary health // Public Health // Environmental Sciences // Forestry // Urban health