🌍🌿 How does our environment shape long-term health?
Join us at the Cambridge Festival to explore how air pollution, climate change, and heatwaves are impacting chronic disease.
📅 Monday 23 March, 18:00–19:30
📍 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge
🎟️ Free: tinyurl.com/5dfmb9rf
✨New✨ Our study highlights a key tension: as global climate diplomacy grows, so does the carbon footprint of bringing people together to negotiate action.
How can climate governance remain effective & inclusive while reducing the footprint of the processes supporting it?
🔗 shorturl.at/NKXy9
A chance to learn from wonderful colleagues from across the world!
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✨NEW✨ How does climate change affect sleep, and why does it matter?
In our Nature Sustainability Comment, we discuss new research showing that rising temperatures may increase global sleep loss, with potential broader societal implications 🌍💤🌡️
📰https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01778-y
New from #RSOS: Ethical considerations related to #drone use for environment and health research: a scoping review. Read more: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @remyhs.bsky.social @daalenkim.bsky.social @msantosvega.bsky.social @gabc91.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social
Seven countries are losing all U.S. humanitarian aid: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe.
these projects are being canceled because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests.”
www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...
@remyhs.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social @msantosvega.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@royalsociety.org @cambridgecardio.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @isee-global.bsky.social
As drone research expands across climate science, epidemiology, and global health, the conversation must move beyond “Can we fly?” to “Should we fly, and how do we do so responsibly?” ⚖️
📖 🔗Read our new study, led by Dr Hoek Spaans, exploring these ethical challenges: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Used a John Snow reference in class today.
Today’s undergrads do not know Game of Thrones.
Please respect my privacy during this difficult time.🧓
New Pub!✨👀 After screening 266,669 📰, we synthesised *all* evidence on diversity in academic global health.
📊 226 studies on editorial boards + 603 on authorship → representation remains limited.
The evidence is (& has been) clear - it’s time for structural reform.🔥
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ymjtucz8
🚀 We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Hannah Klauber as Co-Lead of our Economics & Finance Working Group! Joining from @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, she brings her expertise to strengthen indicators, connect researchers, and shape climate-health action. 🌍 #Leadership #ClimateChange #HealthEconomics
🌍🌱 New for young readers (8–15): How climate change affects health, and how climate action helps!
Our new Frontiers for Young Minds article turns @countdowneurope.bsky.social findings into clear, hopeful insights.
🔗 Read: kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
📊 Infographics: shorturl.at/wmt0X
New workshop paper out today with 60 of our closest friends, providing guidance on how to design a study attributing health impacts to climate change. Hopefully this helps expand the field and start closing the representation gaps we discuss in our forthcoming work link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Now is the time that I remind you that, while plague has been endemic in the western United States for 70+ years and this is a normal occurrence, our work does seem to strongly suggest climate change is increasing spillover risk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🗣️NEW SPEAKER!
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social will be speaking at LSHTM’s Health Misinformation UNPACKED, 15 September 2025, London/online. @lshtmcepr.bsky.social
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
🚨 Our new study of 147,979 pregnancies 🤰🏻 across 9 Chinese provinces finds that combined PM₂.₅ and ozone exposure increases low birth weight risk - with critical exposure windows from preconception to the second trimester.
📄 Led by Haitong Zhe Sun, read full:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Millions of people worldwide 🌍 are chronically exposed to environmental arsenic.
In this new📄, we explore whether associations between environmental arsenic & risk of adverse cardiometabolic 🫀 outcomes change in the presence of common genetic 🧬 variations. ⬇️
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Climate change 🌎 poses a growing threat to workers' health, through direct exposure to environmental hazards and indirect exacerbation of social & health inequalities.
Our new 📰 discusses research gaps in occupational health in the era of climate change ⬇️
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Yesterday @ianguelovski.bsky.social @pkotsila.bsky.social
served as jury members for the 2024 Ciudad de Barcelona Awards @barcelonacat.bsky.social awarding the Lancet Countdown’s Europe Report on Health & Climate Change. Congrats to lead authors @daalenkim.bsky.social @drrachellowe.bsky.social!
190 people have registered for our Reimagining Global Health course!
You can still apply!
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Shocking that UK government plans to boost defence spending by cutting aid.
To add to the injustice, here is what Baroness Chapman, Minister of State for International Development, told the select committee she plans cuts to focus on: education & gender.
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #aid
We are now on Bluesky!
Follow us to keep up to date with our research and find out what goes on at the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit in the @dphpc.bsky.social
#cardiovasculardisease #prevention #healthcare #bigdata #globalhealth #publichealth #riskfactors
Està preparada Catalunya per afrontar les malalties que vindran❓
🌍L'escalfament global accelera i la globalització connecta: malalties abans llunyanes ja es transmeten localment
🗞En parla la investigadora del BSC @drrachellowe.bsky.social al Diari Ara
➡ www.bsc.es/ZFu
#dengue #mosquits #virus
Current Environmental Health Reports (CEHR) stands with the environmental health community amid cuts to U.S. federal health agencies during this uncertain time.💔
If your review article was recently withdrawn from EHP, CEHR may be a good fit! We welcome submissions of review articles! 📝
New research from @dadasara.bsky.social
Realist #evaluation in @bmj.com Global Health looks at how & why Safe Motherhood Action Groups #SMAGs use communication to improve maternal & newborn health care-seeking in #Zambia
Read paper doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2024-015961
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDVA...
🌍✨ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspiration—it’s a necessity for 📈 health outcomes & addressing inequities.
Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0
Read the full paper in the @thelancet.bsky.social Regional Health Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
A fantstic new paper by Gina E.C. Charnley et al. discussing the lessons Europe can learn on vector-borne disease control from endemic countries, and advocating for the expansion of transdisciplinary knowledge-sharing partnerships, to co-create proactive measures against vector-borne diseases. ⬇️
Our health is intrinsically linked to the natural world. Quite simply: no nature, no health.
It’s time to change the narrative! Taking action for climate and nature is taking action for our health.
I think every lab page needs a Marty 😍😂 @loiclnlg.bsky.social www.lannelongue-group.org
