🌊 We are witnessing devastating floods across Kenya, Brazil, Afghanistan, and Italy, but how do these events impact health?

💡 Enjoyed contributing to this explainer by Wellcome uncovering the many physical & mental health consequences of floods

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Buildings are a major consumer of fossil fuels and natural gas for heating and cooling. Like cars and power grids, buildings could be the next to go electric.

But are there health benefits to electrifying buildings?

Jonathan Buonocore at Boston University School of Public Health aims to find out ⤵️

Climate change is making flooding events around the world more likely and more intense.

Here's how that impacts our health ⤵️
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Looking for infectious disease funding?

We’re funding teams to generate data to develop effective interventions for dengue and Zika through researching their spread, immunity and clinical outcomes.

Here’s what you need to know before you apply ⤵️
wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

Innovation in mental health is driven by experts working together.

That's why we're funding neuroscientists and mental health clinicians to work together to better understand the symptoms of anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Wellcome’s Camilla Iannone tells us more ⤵️

Floods have a huge impact on people’s health that lasts far beyond the event itself.

From the spread of diseases like cholera and dengue, to the mental health effects and disruption to ongoing healthcare, find out more in our new explainer ⤵️
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Depression rates are rising worldwide, and research shows that mental health problems are common among university students.

We spoke to the METROPOLIS team, who are trialling interventions that could improve student mental health in India and beyond: wellc.me/3Vwxgm1

#AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) threatens to send the world back into the era before antibiotics and other antimicrobials, when a routine infection could be deadly.

Addressing AMR, and preventing its further spread, requires leadership from all Member States, accountable

Antimicrobial resistance is one of our greatest public health threats.

We need collective, evidence-based action to control the escalating burden of all drug-resistant infections.

Read more from Prof. Dame Sally Davies in the The Guardian ⤵️
theguardian.com/global-develop…

People around the world have experienced some of the worst flood events on record recently.

As climate change makes flooding more likely, the health risks will only worsen.

Find out more, and what can be done to limit the dangers — with experts Collins Iwuji and Catherine Butler ⤵️