Table 1 Priorities in environment, climate and health research, HERA project. Six Research Goals and 30 specific Priorities

Research goal 1 “Climate change and biodiversity loss – reduce effects on health and the environment”

 RG1.1 Health and climate change

 RG1.2 Health impacts of climate mitigation and adaptation measures

 RG1.3 Health and biodiversity loss

 RG1.4 Biological agents, environment and human health

 RG1.5 Food, ecosystem services and farming

 RG1.6 Global pollution

Research goal 2 “Cities and communities – promote healthy lives in sustainable and inclusive societies”

 RG2.1 Healthy Urban Environments

 RG2.2 Air pollutants in indoor and outdoor environments

 RG2.3 Noise in living environments

 RG2.4 Changing work and employment conditions

 RG 2.5 Digitalisation, changed mobility patterns and effects on environment and health

 RG2.6 Waste and contaminated sites

Research goal 3 “Chemicals and physical stressors – prevent and eliminate harmful chemical exposures to health”

 RG3.1 Exposure to chemicals including legacy chemicals, emerging chemicals and mixtures

 RG3.2 Health effects of anthropogenic chemicals

 RG3.3 Radiation

 RG3.4 Water contamination

 RG3.5 Food and soil contamination

Research goal 4 “Improve health impact assessment of environmental factors and promote implementation research”

 RG 4.1 A unified European approach on quality of life and burden of disease

 RG 4.2 Develop tools and methodologies for integrative environmental health risk assessment

 RG 4.3 Advance and systematise implementation research in environment and health

Research goal 5 “Develop infrastructures, technologies and human resources for sustainable research on environment, climate change and health”

 RG5.1 Well-designed and maintained population cohorts and related biobanks

 RG5.2 Development of laboratory capacities for assessment of the chemical exposome and its functional impacts

 RG5.3 Innovative big data-based methods and tools to characterize interrelationships between environment and health

 RG5.4 Transdisciplinary research infrastructure: Planetary Health monitoring

Research goal 6 “Promote research on transformational change in environment, climate change and health”

 RG6.1 Preparedness to prevent and combat future environment and health threats/challenges

 RG6.2 Transformational change

 RG6.3 Socioeconomic factors and the environment, environmental injustice, equity, sustainable economic growth

 RG6.4 Ethical, philosophical and political aspects

 RG6.5 Science communication and science–policy-society dialogue

 RG6.6 Transformational change in education, training and research