Summary
Niloofar is an MRC Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London. She is also a Data Impact Fellow with the UK Data Service. Her research is at the intersection of environmental sciences and public health, with a particular focus on the application of Bayesian methods in this area. She is interested in understanding long-term health effects of neighbourhood-level environmental exposures.
She completed her PhD in Environmental Engineering at University of Quebec (Canada), where she worked on the quantitative analysis of soil contamination data and developed guidelines for engineers and policy-makers as to how to deal with the below detection limit concentrations. She was a visiting research scholar in the Department of Statistics at the University of Waterloo and Texas A&M University. She completed her MSc and BSc in Environmental Engineering at La Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).
Publications
Journals
Gemmell E, Adjei-Boadi D, Sarkar A, et al., 2023, “In small places, close to home”: urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities, Health and Place, Vol:83, ISSN:1353-8292, Pages:1-13
Shoari N, Heydari S, Blangiardo M, 2023, A decade of child pedestrian safety in England: a Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis, Bmc Public Health, Vol:23, ISSN:1471-2458, Pages:1-13
Shoari N, Beevers S, Brauer M, et al., 2022, Towards healthy school neighbourhoods: a baseline analysis in Greater London, Environment International, Vol:165, ISSN:0160-4120
Shoari N, Heydari S, Blangiardo M, 2022, School neighbourhood and compliance with WHO-recommended annual NO2 guideline: A case study of Greater London, Science of the Total Environment, Vol:803, ISSN:0048-9697
Shoari N, Ezzati M, Doyle YG, et al., 2021, Nowhere to play: available open and green space in Greater London schools, Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, Vol:98, ISSN:1099-3460, Pages:375-384