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Prof James WOODCOCK
Principal Investigator
Prof James Woodcock is Professor of Transport and Health Modelling at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the development of holistic approaches for modelling the health impact of alternative pathways to reductions in greenhouse gases from urban land transport. He has led the development of the influential Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modelling tool (ITHIM), which has been widely used in research and policy. He led the Propensity to Cycle Tool project for the UK Department for Transport, which has been widely used by local authority decision-makers. He sits on the core expert group for the WHO Health Economic Appraisal Tool for walking and cycling. He is a panel member for the UK NIHR Public Health Research Committee.
He is a European Research Council Consolidator Grant holder, GLASST. He is joint PI (with Prof. Billie Giles-Corti) on the UK/Australian funded JIBE project. Recent work has two main strands. Firstly, transforming agent-based travel behaviour models through increasing their sensitivity to built environment behavioural determinants (particularly for walking and cycling) and incorporating health behaviours, exposures, and outcomes within them. Secondly developing microsimulation city-level models of transport and health for cities across Latin America, Africa, and India.
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Patterson, R., McNamara, E., Tainio, M. et al. Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis. Eur J Epidemiol 33, 811–829 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-018-0380-1
Guyatt, Gordon H., Andrew D. Oxman, Regina Kunz, James Woodcock, Jan Brozek, Mark Helfand, Pablo Alonso-Coello, et al. ‘GRADE Guidelines: 7. Rating the Quality of Evidence—Inconsistency’. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 64, no. 12 (December 2011): 1294–1302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.03.017.
Guyatt, Gordon H., Andrew D. Oxman, Regina Kunz, James Woodcock, Jan Brozek, Mark Helfand, Pablo Alonso-Coello, et al. ‘GRADE Guidelines: 8. Rating the Quality of Evidence—Indirectness’. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 64, no. 12 (December 2011): 1303–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2011.04.014.
Woodcock, James et al. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport. The Lancet, Volume 374, Issue 9705, 1930 - 1943