Meet the Team
Air is Kin
Air is Kin is a project led by a wide range of practitioners. Below are the team members.
Araceli Camargo
Araceli is a neuroscientist and health justice advocate working at Centric Lab. Araceli is a descendant of the original Peoples of Turtle Island.
Prof. Ilan Kelman
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
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.
David Smith
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.
Dr. Rhiannon Mihranian Osborne
Rhiannon is a junior doctor, researcher and organiser. Her work focuses on environmental justice, access to medicines, and re-imagining health beyond capitalism and colonialism.
Angela Fonso
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.
Dr. Joanna Dobbin
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.
Stuart Bennett
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.
Daniel Akinola-Odusola
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.
Dr. Emily Parker
Emily is a resident doctor working in paediatrics in Newcastle who advocates for the role doctors can play in safeguarding children from the harmful effects of pollution.
Josh Artus
Josh works at Centric Lab with a focus on the built environment and policy.
This project is in partnership with Impact on Urban Health
