Meelan Thondoo is a medical anthropologist and environmental epidemiologist working in the global health arena. Meelan’s research interests are in city-level health impact assessments (HIA) and multi-sectoral interventions and integrated policies for health. Meelan Thondoo read Biology (Bsc.), Medical Anthropology (Msc.) and Health Economics (Mph.) at the University of Geneva, University College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 2017, she was selected as a Transglobal Health Fellow for the European Commission Joint Doctorate Program (EMJD) and completed a PhD in Medicine and Translational Research with excellence. She is currently a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Her work focuses on the health impacts of urbanization, motorization and climate-change in cities of fast developing countries. She performs transdisciplinary Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) and applies mixed-method tools to tackle health inequalities and reduce preventable disease and injury caused by environmental, social and economic determinants of health. She focuses on urban-specific health exposure pathways including air pollution, physical activity, heat, blue and green spaces, noise, traffic injuries, and food.