Margarita Triguero-Mas

Senior Researcher and Ramón y Cajal Fellow

Margarita is an affiliated senior researcher at the BCNUEJ. She is also a senior researcher at UOC, where she is part of the Planetary Health research group, and associated researcher (Assistant Professor level) at ISGlobal. She is an environmental scientist working at the intersection of public health, urban planning and environmental justice and a world expert on the health impacts of urban nature, with a particular focus on health equity (PhD biomedicine, UPF). Her work has informed the US and the European Environmental Protection Agencies and the World Health Organization. In the last three years she has been consistently among the most cited and influential scientists in the world. She has been recently awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship (2021 call) and the co-coordination of a Horizon Europe project (GreenME) to identify ways in which effective nature-based therapies and a broader green care framework can be scaled-up to improve adult mental health and wellbeing equity in Europe while contributing to multiple socio-ecological co-benefits.

She has experience and expertise in specific areas of: (i) self-perceived general and mental health, cognitive function, and stress; (ii) exposure assessment and specific exposure factors such as gentrification, air pollution, green space, UV exposure, noise, temperature, rainfall and physical activity, and (iii) she also has experience and expertise in specific methodologies both quantitative (questionnaires, smartphones, GIS, personal sensors) but also qualitative and participatory action research.

Research lines:
Urban Health & Equity

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