Health-Earth is an international, interdisciplinary network founded by institutions and individuals from Australia, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, the UK, the US and the UN University Institute of Global Health, in 2014 (with MoUs signed in 2015). We welcome friends. We seek to build knowledge about global change and health and develop capacity for effective responses by policymakers, practitioners and communities, thus ensuring long-term population health. Recognising, assessing, forewarning, minimising and adapting to the risks brought by global ecological and social change is vital if global population health is to be improved and to endure. The teaching of this material in schools and universities, at all levels, and to all health workers (i.e. beyond public health) is an important H-earth goal. Understanding the adverse health consequences of unchecked adverse global environmental change is also important for many other disciplines, professions, policy makers and people of all faiths. We have six major themes:
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- Poverty
- Climate Change (a Planetary Boundary)
- Infectious Diseases
- Ecosystem disruptions (a Planetary Boundary)
- Security
- Transformation
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Co-founders
Wael Al-Delaimy, Professor of Epidemiology and Chief of the Division of Global Health at the University of California, San Diego, USA
Colin D Butler, Adjunct Professor, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Australia (founding co-chair)
Tony Capon, Director, United Nations University International Institute of Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kris Ebi, Professor of Global Health and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, USA
Trevor Hancock, Professor and Senior Scholar, School of Public Health & Social Policy, University of Victoria, Canada
Jouni Jaakkola, Director, Centre for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, WHO Collaboration Centre in Global Change, Environment and Public Health, University of Oulu, Finland ·(founding co-chair)
Andy Morse, Professor of Climate Impacts in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool; Adjunct Professor NIHR Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, UK.
John D. Potter, Chief Science Advisor, Ministry of Health, New Zealand, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, University of Washington; Senior Advisor to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , Seattle, USA; Professor of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, New Zealand
Wael Al-Delaimy, Professor of Epidemiology and Chief of the Division of Global Health at the University of California, San Diego, USA
Colin D Butler, Adjunct Professor, Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Australia (founding co-chair)
Tony Capon, Director, United Nations University International Institute of Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kris Ebi, Professor of Global Health and Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, USA
Trevor Hancock, Professor and Senior Scholar, School of Public Health & Social Policy, University of Victoria, Canada
Jouni Jaakkola, Director, Centre for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research, WHO Collaboration Centre in Global Change, Environment and Public Health, University of Oulu, Finland ·(founding co-chair)
Andy Morse, Professor of Climate Impacts in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool; Adjunct Professor NIHR Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, UK.
John D. Potter, Chief Science Advisor, Ministry of Health, New Zealand, Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology, University of Washington; Senior Advisor to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , Seattle, USA; Professor of Epidemiology, Centre for Public Health Research, Massey University, New Zealand