Madeleine Thomson
@madthomson
Head Climate Impacts, Climate & Health Challenge Programme, Wellcome Trust, passionate about practical action in health and climate change - views my own
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“A new study, the largest of its kind, found that people living in polluted areas were more likely to have more than one long-term illness. Researchers looked at more than 360,000 people aged between 40 and 69 who had health data in the UK”#beeathelife2030 theguardian.com/environment/20…
Today I introduced a Clean Air Bill to disarm the silent killer Air Pollution with earlier World Health Organization (WHO) limits to save thousands of lives from toxic air. Pls view on youtube.com/watch?v=Hm7cF_…
⚡️NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY⚡️in the BSC-CNS Global Health Resilience group, to co-create climate-informed digital modelling tools to better predict infectious diseases outbreaks in #LMICs 🔗bsc.es/join-us/job-op… 📅Closing date: 28 Feb 2023 Wellcome IDAlert project E4Warning HE
Our joy shumake-guillemot's interview in the latest World Health Organization (WHO) Bulletin covers the benefits of inter-sectoral climate and health initiatives, and the potential of climate services for the health sector. Read the full interview here ➡️ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Consider this: Research shows that it's cheaper to produce electricity by building new large-scale wind & solar facilities than to continue operating all but one existing US coal-fired power plants. insideclimatenews.org/news/30012023/… GMU Center for Climate Change Communication The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health republicEn.org Virginia Climate Center
Digital tools can help us predict & prepare for the disruptive effects of climate change on infectious diseases. 🌦️ 🦟 That’s why Wellcome is supporting Hanifi S M Tafsir Hasan @ziawadud Papiya Mazumdar icddr,b University Of Leeds POLIS at Leeds CholOut-EWS project
Celebrating the launch of DELTAS2 funding. IDeAL is one of 14 african-led consortia funded. Thanks Science for Africa Foundation Wellcome Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Tropical Medicine Oxford Kenya Medical Research Institute
What do #IPCC reports say about the #Health impacts of climate change? 👉 Grundy County Housing interviewed several IPCC authors: ⚠️IPCC reports are the ultimate guidance for shaping climate action. By following the science, we protect people’s health.