Dr Sari Kovats
@sari_kovats
Associate Professor @LSHTM, climate change and health
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03-01-2011 11:54:42
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Since 2015/16, the local authority public health grant has been cut by 28% in real terms/person. Today, we've published a new The Health Foundation long read setting out how the grant could be restored and more fairly shared between local authorities 🧵 1/ health.org.uk/publications/l…
🌊Exciting news! Natural Environment Research Council & UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology will lead the first ever UK-wide floods & droughts research infrastructure, monitoring our entire water environment and leading to improved predictions & more resilience to extreme weather >> buff.ly/3yN999O #FDRI_NERC 1/
Air pollution is the leading preventable cause of premature death & illness in the world today. I encourage health professionals to take this free 4 hour World Health Organization (WHO) course to meet their nemesis: openwho.org/courses/air-po… The end of fossil fuels will be a new beginning for health.
At WIREs Climate Change Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews we publish review articles on all aspects of climate change If you have manuscript ideas then reach out! We’re particularly keen to work with authors from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and we work with authors to refine their proposals
In academia we have long known the corrupting potential of industry funding, which is why health professionals won’t take funding from tobacco companies. Why then do universities welcome funding from Big Oil? Big mistake! wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wc… Geoffrey Supran Lisa Patel, MD, MESc
#ExtremeHeat has been making life hell for #migrants living in climate-vulnerable Dhaka, Bangladesh. Read the new report from Mosabber Hossain. --> climateresilience.org/blazing-realit…
Travelling back from the 4th National Climate Impacts Meeting Newcastle University. Great 2 days hearing about work across the UK impacts community. Pleased for the opportunity to present the temperature, health impacts, & adaptation work at UK Health Security Agency in collaboration with HPRU_ECH
We are putting together an incredible line up of speakers for International Child Health Group Winter meeting #Childhealth & #SDGs 5 years to go Much progress but still key gaps & barriers Online 5th Dec Watch this space for more info & registration RCPCH ISSOP.org MARCH Centre, LSHTM
Do you have global child health research to share? Submit an abstract to International Child Health Group session at RCPCH conference 2025 👉 deadline 3rd Oct 👉 friendly audience with post-session networking & chat 👉 citation in ADC online RCPCH ISSOP.org International Pediatric Association MARCH Centre, LSHTM
🚨 Apply for Munich Re Foundation - From Knowledge to Action & UNDRR's 2025 RISK Award to receive project funding of up to €100,000! The application phase runs from 1 July to 13 October 2024. The award is dedicated to the topic of "Children and youths as agents of change for DRR". ℹ️ bit.ly/3X4uMf6
Excited to see this interesting new paper from Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo and colleagues in BMJ Global Health on strengthening the climate resilience of health systems in the Peruvian Amazon by working w/Indigenous leaders, communities & health officers Alliance for HPSR gh.bmj.com/content/8/Supp…
Opportunity: #HeatHealth postdoc research fellowship at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Applicants should have a doctoral degree in #physiology, and be familiar with methods and technologies used to measure human physiological responses to high ambient temperatures. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?r…
This started with an idea to bring gender & climate messages from the IPCC report to the practitioner community and IISD + collaborators put their hearts into this project and we were very grateful for the funding from Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺. Hear more at the webinar next week!
10 years ago I attended the first World Health Organization (WHO) Climate & Health conference and the first World Meteorological Organization-World Health Organization (WHO) joint office meeting. Delighted to be back in Geneva to see the progress this thriving community has made and work on a 3-year action agenda for integrated climate-health surveillance ❤️🩹🌍