Table 1.
Priorities in environment, climate and health research, HERA project. Six Research Goals and 30 specific Priorities
| Research goal 1 “Climate change and biodiversity loss – reduce effects on health and the environment” |
| RG1.1 Health and climate change |
| RG1.2 Health impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation measures |
| RG1.3 Health and biodiversity loss |
| RG1.4 Biological agents, environment and human health |
| RG1.5 Food, ecosystem services and farming |
| RG1.6 Global pollution |
| Research goal 2 “Cities and communities – promote healthy lives in sustainable and inclusive societies” |
| RG2.1 Healthy Urban Environments |
| RG2.2 Air pollutants in indoor and outdoor environments |
| RG2.3 Noise in living environments |
| RG2.4 Changing work and employment conditions |
| RG 2.5 Digitalisation, changed mobility patterns and effects on environment and health |
| RG2.6 Waste and contaminated sites |
| Research goal 3 “Chemicals and physical stressors – prevent and eliminate harmful chemical exposures to health” |
| RG3.1 Exposure to chemicals including legacy chemicals, emerging chemicals and mixtures |
| RG3.2 Health effects of anthropogenic chemicals |
| RG3.3 Radiation |
| RG3.4 Water contamination |
| RG3.5 Food and soil contamination |
| Research goal 4 “Improve health impact assessment of environmental factors and promote implementation research” |
| RG 4.1 A unified European approach on quality of life and burden of disease |
| RG 4.2 Develop tools and methodologies for integrative environmental health risk assessment |
| RG 4.3 Advance and systematise implementation research in environment and health |
| Research goal 5 “Develop infrastructures, technologies and human resources for sustainable research on environment, climate change and health” |
| RG5.1 Well-designed and maintained population cohorts and related biobanks |
| RG5.2 Development of laboratory capacities for assessment of the chemical exposome and its functional impacts |
| RG5.3 Innovative big data-based methods and tools to characterize interrelationships between environment and health |
| RG5.4 Transdisciplinary research infrastructure: Planetary Health monitoring |
| Research goal 6 “Promote research on transformational change in environment, climate change and health” |
| RG6.1 Preparedness to prevent and combat future environment and health threats/challenges |
| RG6.2 Transformational change |
| RG6.3 Socioeconomic factors and the environment, environmental injustice, equity, sustainable economic growth |
| RG6.4 Ethical, philosophical and political aspects |
| RG6.5 Science communication and science–policy-society dialogue |
| RG6.6 Transformational change in education, training and research |