It’s my pleasure to introduce you toINHERIT (INter-sectoral Health and Environment Research for InnovaTion) and to welcome you to this first newsletter. INHERIT is our new, ambitious, Horizon2020 research project (2016-2019) of a EuroHealthNet-led consortium of 18 well-established organisations with experts from a range of disciplines (public health, environment, economics, technology, social sciences, psychology, behaviour-change, sustainable consumption and media) and from across Europe.