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Professor Sari Kovats

Professor of Climate and Health

United Kingdom

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Affiliations
Department of Public Health, Environments and Society
Faculty of Public Health and Policy

Centres

Centre for Evaluation
Centre for Maternal Adolescent Reproductive & Child Health
Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health

Teaching

Module Organiser and lecturer for Term 1 module Environment, Health and Sustainable Development for LSHTM MSc Public Health in-house [2004-2025].

Research Degrees Supervision: Luis Baptista Mieiro [2022-2027] and Kimberly Humphrey [2025-2030]

Completed PHDs: Lloyd SJ (2020) Modelling the relation between climate change and undernutrition at the global-level: the use of multiple perspectives to gain new insights. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04657361;  Thompson R (2025). “Heatwaves and clinical vulnerability in England; development of a risk stratification tool for use in primary care” PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Bose, I (2025). Changing rainfall patterns, household water use and health: risks and household responses in rural Gambia. PhD thesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. https://doi.org/10.17037/PUBS.04677709

Research

Health Protection Research Unit in Climate Change and Health Security

HEARTH - National Hub of Net Zero, Health and Extreme Heat 

THERM-UK - Protecting populations at risk from heat in the UK

REACH - Building resilience to floods and heat in the maternal and child health system in Brazil and Zambia.

SPRINT-Strengthening preparations and resilience to temperature and community adaptation for women's health in Senegal and Bangladesh

AWARE - Awareness against Threats of Climate Change

Research Area
Climate change
Environmental Health
Evidence use
Health inequalities
Maternal health
Public health
Systematic reviews
Epidemiology

Selected Publications
Identification of individual-level clinical factors associated with increased risk of death during heatwaves: a time-stratified case-crossover study using national primary care records in England.
Thompson, R; KOVATS, S; HAJAT, S; Macintyre, H; O'Connell, E;
2024
BMJ public health
Climate change, air pollution and maternal and newborn health: An overview of reviews of health outcomes.
Conway, F; Portela, A; FILIPPI, V; Chou, D; KOVATS, S;
2024
Journal of global health
Extreme heat, pregnancy and women's well-being in Burkina Faso: an ethnographical study.
Kadio, K; FILIPPI, V; Congo, M; Scorgie, F; Roos, N; Lusambili, A; Nakstad, B; KOVATS, S; Kouanda, S;
2024
BMJ global health
Too hot to thrive: a qualitative inquiry of community perspectives on the effect of high ambient temperature on postpartum women and neonates in Kilifi, Kenya.
Lusambili, A; KOVATS, S; Nakstad, B; FILIPPI, V; Khaemba, P; Roos, N; PART, C; Luchters, S; Chersich, M; Hess, J; Kadio, K; Scorgie, F;
2024
BMC pediatrics
Climate change and public health indicators: scoping review
KOVATS, S; Leonardi, G; TURNER, G; Israelsson, J; MURAGE, P; HAJAT, S;
2023
Climate change and public health indicators: scoping review
Process and outputs from a community codesign workshop on reducing impact of heat exposure on pregnant and postpartum women and newborns in Kilifi, Kenya.
Lusambili, A; Khaemba, P; Agoi, F; Oguna, M; Nakstad, B; Scorgie, F; FILIPPI, V; Hess, J; Roos, N; Chersich, M; KOVATS, S; Luchters, S;
2023
Frontiers in public health
Heatwaves, hospitals and health system resilience in England: a qualitative assessment of frontline perspectives from the hot summer of 2019.
Brooks, K; Landeg, O; KOVATS, S; Sewell, M; OConnell, E;
2023
BMJ open
Implementation of adaptation to climate change in public health in Europe: qualitative thematic analysis.
TURNER, G; De'Donato, F; KOVATS, S; Hoeben, A; Nordeng, Z;
2022
Lancet (London, England)
Chapter 5: Health, Communities and the Built Environment
KOVATS, S; Brisley, R;
2021
The Third UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Technical Report
UK Climate Change Risk Assessment Evidence Report: Chapter 5, People and the Built Environment
KOVATS, S; Osborne, D;
2021
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Sari Kovats

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