Improving climate change resilience in healthcare: Japan and the UK Workshop hosted by AMS and JSPS.

I would like to thank the UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) International Policy Arm and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) London for the opportunity to present and participate in their two-day international policy workshop.

 

The workshop focus was on Improving the resilience of health and public health systems to the impact of climate change: learning between Japan and the UK.

 

OVERVIEW OF MY TALK

My talk focused on two things.

 

1.  Developing interdisciplinary methods that facilitate a more in-depth understanding of healthcare resilience in the face of climate change.

 

2.    Applying these to my particular topic area: EnvironMental Health and the Exposome, with a particular focus on place and living in complex systems.

 

 

For my talk, I introduced COMPLEX-IT, the R shiny platform that my colleagues and I developed, which is free for online use or downloading to run in R Studio.

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  CLICK HERE for a PDF of my presentation.

• CLICK HERE for more on the complexity sciences.
  

• For more on the field of social complexity, see our new monograph, The Atlas of Social Complexity.
  

• For more on our work on EnvironMental Health and the Exposome, see our research and policy consortium, InSPIRE.

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I also had the chance to then attend, on the last day, the  AMS & The Lancet-International Health Lecture 2024 on “Climate crisis, cities and health” on 17 October, delivered by Prof Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, who is Research Professor and Director of the Urban Planning, Environment and Health Initiative, and Director of the Air pollution and Urban Environment Programme at ISGlobal in Barcelona Spain. The manuscript of the lecture has now been published in The Lancet online: Climate crisis, cities, and health - The Lancet. A video of the lecture can be found here.