Meltem Kutlar Joss

Dr. Haneen Khreis is an internationally recognized expert on the environmental and health impacts of urban and transportation policy. She has authored more than 85 peer-reviewed journal articles and technical reports that demonstrate how environmental policy choices directly affect air quality, and population health across diverse global contexts. Her work includes assessment of London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, transport mode shifts in 30 cities across South America, India, and Africa; and the Barcelona’s Superblocks urban model. She led several landmark studies, including the first burden of disease assessments of air pollution and childhood asthma incidence; effects of air pollution on the onset of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases; and the health and financial impacts of meeting the NAAQS and WHO Air Quality Guideline Values. She developed novel evidence-based decision-support tools, such as: integrating health in the Knowledgebase on Sustainable Urban Land Use and Transport, the Integrated Transport and Health Impact Modelling Tool for Global Cities to quantify health impacts of transportation policy in low- and middle-income countries, and an online systematic evidence map, cataloguing over 1,000 policies with documented impacts on emissions, air pollution, health, and climate co-benefits. Dr. Khreis collaborates with an extensive network of local, regional, and national governments worldwide to translate research into actionable environmental policy. She serves as an advisor to the UK Government Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants contributing to national air quality standards and health guidance