Dr. Alberto Castro Fernández
Function(s)
Senior Scientific Collaborator
Organisational Entity
Profile
Professional experience
- From 2020 Senior Scientific Collaborator: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute / Department of Epidemiology and Public Health / Environmental Exposures and Health
- 2018 - 2020 PostDoc: University of Basel / Faculty of Business and Economics
- 2016 - 2019 PostDoc: University of Zurich / Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute / WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Health
- 2013 - 2015 Research associate: University of Applied Sciences of Zurich / Institute of Sustainable Development / Team Sustainable Mobility
- 2012 - 2012 Free-lance: Consulting for sustainable mobility
- 2008 - 2011 Project assistant: Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Transportation / Research Unit Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
Education
- 2008 - 2011 PhD: Vienna University of Technology / Institute of Transportation / Research Unit Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering
- 2000 - 2007 Civil Engineering: Polytechnical University of Madrid / Focus: Space planning, city planing and environment
Membership
- From 2016 Member of the Core Group of the WHO tool HEAT (Health Economic Assessment Tool for walking and cycling)
Full CV
Selected Projects
All ProjectsMy Projects
QHIAS - Quantification of Health Impact of Air pollution in Switzerland
BEST-COST - Burden of disease based methods for estimating the socio-economic cost of environmental stressors
ETAIN - Exposure to Electromagnetic FIelds and Planetary Health
GKV21 - Methodology revision of true costs of transport
Selected Publications
All PublicationsMy Publications
Castro A, Röösli M, de Hoogh K, Kappeler R, Kutlar Joss M, Vienneau D, Künzli N. Methods matter: a comparative review of health risk assessments for ambient air pollution in Switzerland. Public Health Rev. 2022;43:1604431. DOI: 10.3389/phrs.2022.1604431