Tackling climate change and human health – how can we secure a healthy future for all?

‘Creative Perspectives on the Health of the Public’ is a seminar series, open to UCL staff and PhD students, which aims to engage with and showcase the breadth of health of the public expertise across UCL and encourage cross-disciplinary collaboration.

This event will be a chance to explore - Tackling climate change and human health – how can we secure a healthy future for all?

It will be a direct follow up to UCL’s participation at COP26, to take forward specific actions related to the co-benefits of addressing climate change and improved human health. We aim to develop an action-orientated agenda in this area and facilitate interdisciplinary links between climate and health-focused researchers at UCL.

Join us to hear from colleagues about their research and explore ways in which we can work together on this challenge to address climate change and health.

Agenda

13:30-13:50 Welcome

- Professor Dame Anne Johnson (UCL Health of the Public)

- Professor Dan Osborn (UCL Environment Domain)

13:50-14:20 Speaker presentations

- Professor Anthony Costello and Dr Marina Romanello (Institute for Global Health)

The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change

- Dr Clare Heaviside (UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering)

Climate change and cities - reducing heat related health impacts

- Dr Jerome Lewis (UCL Anthropology)

Extreme Citizen Science and the One Health approach to conserving key global landscapes in Central Africa

14:20-14:50 Discussion

14:50-15:00 Closing remarks