Ebba Malmqvist

Ebba Malmqvist is an Associate Professor in Environmental Medicine and the head of the research group Planetary Health at Lund University at Lund University. She did a bachelor’s and master´s degree in environmental science. Her master thesis took her to Ecuador and to study the impact of oil exploration in indigenous populations. She came home with a passion for environmental epidemiology and started her PhD studies on air pollution and birth outcomes.  Her main studies are in the field of exposure, epidemiological and health impact assessment. The main research areas are impacts of climate change, air pollution, access to green areas and noise. Since exposures are both local and global, and often unevenly distributed, environmental justice is always central in her work. She conducts studies and contribute to capacity-building also in the Global South with a specific focus on Ethiopia. She received The Swedish Royal Academy of Science SIGHT Award 2020 for her environmental health research in low- and middle-income countries.

She is passionate about bringing science to policy action and has been involved in the EU revision of its Ambient Air Quality Directive, and the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air pollution. She is also the co-chair of the ISEE Policy committee and an air pollution expert at the Science to Policy NGO Air pollution and Climate secretariate.