OUR TEAM
The work produced through Air is Kin is made possible through our wonderful collaborators across industries and disciplines with a shared interest in reframing air pollution and health for community health justice.
Core/Centric Lab Team
Air is Kin’s core team from Centric Lab are responsible for the regular operations and strategy of Air is Kin. Each member brings expertise and focus that enable the living lab.
Dr Marie Müller
Air is Kin Lead Researcher
Marie is a Research Fellow in Psychiatric Epidemiology at University College London.
Director and Data Lead at Centric Lab
Daniel is a data strategist with a background in neuroscience. Daniel has been working at Centric Lab for over 6 years ad has been instrumental in the development of its data projects, studies, and approach.
Co-Founder and Director of Centric Lab
Araceli is a neuroscientist and health justice advocate working at Centric Lab. Araceli is a descendant of the original Peoples of Turtle Island.
Araceli Camargo
Daniel Akinola-Odusola
Community Ambassadors
Our community ambassadors provide valuable expertise and perspectives on the types of tools and research we develop as a lab that are fit for purpose to communities advocating for health justice. AIK Ambassadors have codeveloped coauthored key parts of the Air is Kin outputs for the healing commons.
Community Ambassador
Stu is campaign coordinator of the Save Rimrose Valley campaign, an environmental campaign which successfully saw to the cancellation of a destructive government-led road proposal Rimrose Valley Country Park in North Liverpool.
Stuart Bennett
Community Ambassador
David is the South West London-based founder of Little Ninja, a movement which launches campaigns to reduce air pollution by targeting harmful traffic practices, such as idling, and evidencing the real impacts of campaigns such as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods have on marginalised and vulnerable communities.
Angela Fonso
Community Ambassador
Angela is the coordinator for the campaign group Clean Air for Southall and Hayes, a campaign group campaigning against the environmental injustice caused by a local housing development on an old gasworks site.
David Smith
Advisory Team
Our advisers bring expertise from their respective domains to support the innovative tools and research we develop as a lab with our community partners and ambassadors.
Scientific Adviser [Epidemiology]
Julia is an assistant professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine interested in understanding how poverty, vulnerability and deprived living conditions, included in the broad context of the social determinants of health, affect the chances of people becoming ill and how we can mitigate that.
Prof Ilan Kelman
Scientific Adviser [Disasters and Health]
Ilan is a professor of disasters and health at University College London. His research interest is linking risk, resilience and global health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research
Dr Julia Pescarini
Healthcare Adviser [Paeditrics]
Dr Emily Parker is a paediatric resident doctor who has recently moved to London after 10 years training and working in Newcastle. She is interested in how healthcare professionals can support communities advocating for safer and healthier local environments.
Dr Joanna Dobbins
Healthcare Adviser [GP]
Joanna is a doctor based in Somers Town, Camden who is passionate about health as a human right and campaigning for accessible healthcare to all.
Dr Emily Parker
