Challenge lead
- Antonio Gasparrini, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
About
The assessment of global environmental risks and the health impacts of climate change is a growing research area that requires a planetary perspective. LSHTM has already established itself in this field with the launch of the Centre for Climate Change and Planetary Health, which brings together the study of various topics, such as the increased health effects of environmental stressors, changes in infectious disease patterns, disruption of food systems, migration, and climate change impact projections.
Analyses of large-scale environmental and planetary health phenomena can now exploit novel global-scale data resources, but they pose several methodological, computational, and practical problems. We aim to help catalyse efforts to develop novel analytical techniques and data science methodologies for this new field.
Areas of active research
The Environment and Health Modelling Lab is leading on the development innovative epidemiological methods to study the impact of environmental stressors on human health.
The MCC Collaborative Research Network is an international collaboration of research teams working on a program aiming to produce epidemiological evidence on associations between environmental stressors, climate, and health.
The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health provides research to support decision-making relating to the impacts and responses to the environmental changes that affect our health.
The Sustainable & Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) Project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, is one of the four major interdisciplinary research partnerships in the area of global food systems and urbanisation.
The Pathfinder Initiative provides practical, evidence-based pathways to zero carbon through transformative local, regional and global actions.
The CHAMNHA Project, funded by the Belmont Forum, aims at quantifying the risks from heat on maternal and neonatal health, and develop interventions to reduce the impact of climate risks.
The Children, Cities and Climate Project aims to understand and communicate young people’s views of their cities and assess the public health co-benefits of improving urban environments.
The Environmental Health Group studies water, sanitation, hygiene, and health (WASH), how this influences health and wellbeing, and how investments in these services can improve people’s lives.