Meelan Thondoo

Biographic Data

ID6949390
NAMEMeelan Thondoo
GIVEN NAMESMeelan
FAMILY NAMEThondoo
SIGNATURETHONDOO M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0001-9053-3123
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Urban climate–NCD syndemics in LMICs

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Feyisayo A Odunitan-Wayas et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2026

    BACKGROUND: Climate change poses a major threat to global health. Its synergistic interaction with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), responsible for 74% of global deaths, demands urgent, integrated action. OBJECTIVES: This study critically examines how transdisciplinary approaches can uncover and address structural determinants underpinning climate change-NCD syndemic hazards, while accounting for power dynamics through meaningful stakeholder eng…

  • Community resilience to climate change and non-communicable disease vulnerability in Yaoundé, Cameroon

    Open AccessFelix Assah, Blanche Nfondoh et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Climate change and rapid urbanisation have intensified flood risk in Global South cities, exacerbating health inequities, especially through non-communicable diseases (NCDs). However, little is known about how community resilience strategies to key climate change consequences like flooding affect NCD risk in rapidly growing cities of the Global South. Methods: We used a Community-Based System Dynamics (CBSD) approach to examine flood …

  • Collective learning for resilience in Global South cities

    Open AccessLidia Maria De Oliveira Morais, Elis Mina Seraya Borde et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Introduction: Cities in the Global South face escalating climate change challenges, including extreme weather events that disproportionately affect marginalized populations and exacerbate health risks, such as non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Climate resilience, defined as the capacity to adapt and recover from climate-related events, requires intersectoral collaboration between governments and civil society. Methods: This study employs a Commun…

  • Reflections from COP28

    Open AccessAmiteshwar Singh, Tarek Ezzine et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Postprint (published version)

  • Urban public space initiatives and health in Africa

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Ebele Mogo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Public space initiatives (PSIs) in African cities can significantly promote health and social well-being, yet their implementation and impact are unknown across the continent. There is a substantial gap in literature on PSIs in African countries, with most studies concentrated in wealthier cities and lacking comprehensive assessments of long-term health impacts. The objective of this study was to synthesise evidence on the typology, location, fea…

  • Multisectoral interventions for urban health in Africa

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Ebele Mogo et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2024

  • Cooling cities through urban green infrastructure

    Open AccessTamara Iungman, Marta Cirach et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2023

  • The Health Economic Assessment Tool (Heat) for walking and cycling - experiences from 10 years of application of a health impact assessment tool in policy and practice

    Open AccessSonja Kahlmeier, Nick Cavill et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Sports and Active…2023References: 2

    Challenges for a wider uptake of health-impact assessment (HIA) tools including active transport such as HEAT are the promotion and dissemination to local practitioners and policy makers also outside European and English-speaking regions and in low- and middle-income contexts, further increasing usability, and more generally the advancement of systematic data collection and impact quantification related to walking and cycling

  • Framework for Participatory Quantitative Health Impact Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Open AccessMeelan Thondoo, Daniel H De Vries et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2020

    The framework has several implications for research and practice. It underlines the importance of applying participatory approaches critically while providing a blueprint for methods to engage local stakeholders. Participatory approaches in quantitative HIAs are complex and demand a nuanced understanding of the context. Therefore, the political and cultural contexts in which HIA is conducted will define how the framework is applied. Finally, the …

  • Urban health

    Open AccessOriana Ramírez‐rubio, Carolyn Daher et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Cities are an important driving force to implement the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the New Urban Agenda. The SDGs provide an operational framework to consider urbanization globally, while providing local mechanisms for action and careful attention to closing the gaps in the distribution of health gains. While health and well-being are explicitly addressed in SDG 3, health is also present as a pre condition of SDG 11, that…

  • Experiences in running a complex electronic data capture system using mobile phones in a large-scale population trial in southern Nepal

    Open AccessSarah Style, B James Beard et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    The increasing availability and capabilities of mobile phones make them a feasible means of data collection. Electronic Data Capture (EDC) systems have been used widely for public health monitoring and surveillance activities, but documentation of their use in complicated research studies requiring multiple systems is limited. This paper shares our experiences of designing and implementing a complex multi-component EDC system for a community-base…