Dr Amy Mizen

Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award:

Award: Health Research Fellowship Scheme

Biography

Dr Amy Mizen obtained her BSc in Physical Geography at Leicester University and went on to complete her MSc in Geographic Information Systems there. She then completed a PhD at Swansea University in Public Health. Following three years in a postdoctoral research position investigating the impact of availability of greenspace on health, she has recently begun a Health Research Fellowship investigating how the built environment impacts on adolescent Mental Health.

Amy is particularly interested in creating complex spatial models to represent how populations engage with their local environment and linking this with health data to generate new insights on how to improve public health.

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Health and Care Research Wales announces recipients of 2019-20 funding awards worth over £5 million