Planting seeds & avoiding weeds: Research in sustainable food systems & planetary health
Joint inaugural lecture of Professor Rosie Green and Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
Food is vital for good health and well-being, but it also plays a huge role in the natural world. Modern food systems are polluting the air, water, and soil, and are a big contributor to climate and environmental change. Our food production is also at risk from a warming, degraded, and more unpredictable world, with extreme weather events leading to increasing food shortages, hunger and malnutrition.
Professor Rosie Green and Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi will take us through their different journeys towards becoming professors in food and sustainability, and, along the way, becoming part of the climate change and planetary health research movement. Coming from very different career backgrounds and countries, they will talk about how their early choices led them both to LSHTM and to working together researching food system solutions that will benefit people's health and the health of the planet.
The lecture will take place from 17:30 - 18:30, followed by a 1-hour in-person drinks reception in the Pumphandle Social.
Speakers
Professor Rosie Green
Rosie’s research focuses on the links between climate change and human health with a special focus on food systems. She is currently co-leading the Pathfinder Initiative project exploring health impacts of global actions to mitigate climate change, which reported its initial results in a Lancet Commission. She is a co-investigator on the ClimateFlation and BAFR-UK projects exploring food system resilience to climate change in the UK, the PAICE project exploring carbon mitigation in G7 countries and the Visibilize4ClimateAction project researching health impacts of climate change in Kenya.
Rosie joined LSHTM in 2011 following her PhD in epidemiology, and was promoted to Professor in 2022. She is Co-Director of the LSHTM Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health which co-ordinates interdisciplinary research relating to climate change and health and also organises outreach and engagement activities. She is also Head of the Planetary Health Group at LSHTM. In 2020 she was on the scientific panel for the UK Climate Assembly which reported back to the UK government with policy recommendations for reaching net zero by 2050, and her work has also fed into the UK Food Strategy and the UK’s Seventh Carbon Budget. She also sits on the WHO expert group for sustainable dietary change.
Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi
Tafadzwa is a Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems & Health at LSHTM, and Director of the Lancet Countdown Africa Centre. He applies a systems approach at the intersection of water, energy, food, environmental, and health systems, also known as the WEF+ nexus, leading research, teaching, and policy-relevant work to strengthen sustainable, climate-resilient food systems.
He is a knowledge broker and science advocate, working with actors in research, government, and society to co-produce actionable evidence for informed decision-making and to identify practical solutions for policy and practice.
Since joining LSHTM in 2023, he has focused on building transdisciplinary consortia and partnerships in Africa in support of scientific leadership, capacity building, and partnership development, all crucial to realising the benefits of research and development initiatives that influence policy, promote equality, and drive transformation in Africa and globally.
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