Helen Pineo

Biographic Data

ID6652149
NAMEHelen Pineo
GIVEN NAMESHelen
FAMILY NAMEPineo
SIGNATUREPINEO H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College London
ORCID0000-0003-1029-3022
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • When Food Becomes a Public Issue

    Open AccessLucas Barbi, Waleska Caiaffa et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Latin American Research2026

    This article examines how food insecurity became established as a public problem in Belo Horizonte by tracing the actors, disputes, and framings shaping this arena over time. Drawing on historical sources and 37 key‐informant interviews (2024–2025), it adopts a public‐arena approach understanding public problems as being constituted through interaction and contestation. The trajectory of Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) policies shows that their…

  • Mindsets and actions

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Rebecca Morley et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2026

    Cities face interconnected challenges for health equity, including structural racism, inadequate housing, and climate change. Due to past failures to achieve positive development outcomes for low-income and marginalized communities, many U.S. cities now emphasize equitable planning and community engagement. However, practitioners often lack the tools to implement just, equitable, and health-promoting policies effectively. Through semi-structured …

  • ‘Best practice’ for healthy urban development

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, G Moore et al.ARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2025

    Lack of clarity about what ‘healthy’ urban development means, alongside financial and technical challenges, has slowed progress on health-promoting development. Case studies could support learning, however, scholars have been critical of their risks when they are applied without adequate consideration of required adaptations or alternatives. We explored how health is promoted through new development via a narrative synthesis of published cases an…

  • Health and wellbeing impacts of housing converted from non-residential buildings

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Ben Clifford et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2024

    Housing quality is a determinant of health, wellbeing and inequities. Since 2013, changes to Permitted Development Rights (PDR) allow conversions of non-residential buildings into housing without planning permission in England. We explored the potential health and wellbeing impacts of such ‘PDR housing’ through an online survey and semi-structured interviews in four London boroughs. We found an association between low wellbeing and lack of reside…

  • Climate change projections for sustainable and healthy cities

    Open AccessC M Goode, Sarah Berk et al.ARTICLEBuildings and Cities2021References: 5

    Large-scale climate projections for the coming decades show robust trends in rising air temperatures, including more warm days and nights, and longer/more intense warm spells and heatwaves. This paper describes how more complex and higher resolution regional climate and urban canopy models can be combined with the aim of better understanding and quantifying how these larger scale patterns of change may be modified at the city or finer scale. Thes…

  • Evidence-informed urban health and sustainability governance in two Chinese cities

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Ke Zhou et al.ARTICLEBuildings and Cities2021Cited by: 1References: 7

    Sustainable development is best supported by intersectoral policies informed by a range of evidence and knowledge types ( e . g . scientific and lay). Given China's rapid urbanisation, scale and global importance in climate mitigation, this study investigates how evidence is perceived and used to inform urban health and sustainability policies at central and local levels. Well-informed senior professionals in government/scientific agencies (12 in…

  • Integrating health into the complex urban planning policy and decision-making context

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Nici Zimmermann et al.ARTICLEPalgrave Communications2020

    Public health practitioners produce urban health indicator (UHI) tools to inform built environment policy and decision-making, among other objectives. Indicator producers perceive UHI tools as an easily understandable form of evidence about the urban environment impact on health for policy-makers’ consumption. However, indicator producers often conceptualise policy-making as a rational and linear process, therefore underestimating the complex and…

  • Use of Urban Health Indicator Tools by Built Environment Policy- and Decision-Makers

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Ketevan Glonti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2020

  • Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Camilla Audia et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2020References: 4

  • Urban Health Indicator Tools of the Physical Environment

    Open AccessHelen Pineo, Ketevan Glonti et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2018