Professor Joan Ballester is an ICREA Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). He coordinated the ERC Consolidator Grant EARLY-ADAPT (https://www.early-adapt.eu/), jointly analysing the environmental, socioeconomic and demographic drivers of recent trends in human health. He also coordinated the ERC Proof-of-Concept Grants HHS-EWS and FORECAST-AIR, combining weather and air pollution forecasts with environmental epidemiological models to develop real-time, fit-for-purpose, impact-based early warning systems of disease risk (https://forecaster.health/).