Living with Environmental Change: Health challenge

Zeroing in on zoonotic diseases

Ruth Welters — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:27:12 +0000

A cross-disciplinary network to tackle animal to human infections

Rapid Diagnosis Could Transform Healthcare

Ruth Welters — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:49:27 +0000

Developing handheld devices to detect infectious diseases fast.

Resilience to Natural Hazards

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:18:47 +0000

What is Increasing Resilience to natural hazards in volcanic and earth-quake prone regions?

Environmental and Social Ecology of Human Infectious Diseases Initiative

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:59:07 +0000

What is this activity?

Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:55:38 +0000

What is the Ecology of Infectious Diseases programme?

A Breath of Fresher Air

Javier Delgado — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:05:17 +0000

A breath of fresher air: giving policy-makers evidence on air pollution.

Raising the Bar on Risk

Javier Delgado — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:27:39 +0000

The Risk Centre: providing the foresight needed to deal with challenges such as avian flu.

Urban Atmospheric Science: Clean Air for London

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:34:37 +0000

What is the Clean Air for London project?

This is a research project to improve air quality in London.

What will the project do?

Poor air quality in urban areas has a bad effect on human health. Air pollutants include particulates, ozone, nitrogen dioxide and heat.

Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-Making

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:18:04 +0000

What is the Reducing Uncertainty in Models for Environmental Decision-Making study?

This is a scoping study to inform a larger research activity - the study is now complete and the findings will be announced shortly.

What will the study look at?

The scoping study aimed to identify the priority areas requiring investment to take forward research on human health in a changing environment. This is where pollutants and pathogens pose a significant risk of harm to human health or the wider environment.

Environmental Exposure and Health Initiative

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:53:36 +0000

What is the Environmental Exposure and Health Initiative?

Background

Growing populations and urbanisation are leading to increased pressures on ecosystem services and human health, including adverse health effects of contaminated water, land, food and air.

Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents Innovation Platform

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:50:22 +0000

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Centre for Environment and Health

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:47:23 +0000

What is the Medical Research Council - Health Protection Agency Centre for Environment and Health?

This is a new Centre, held jointly between Imperial College and King’s College London, which is adopting an integrated and multidisciplinary approach to environment and health. It involves leading scientists in environmental, respiratory and air pollution epidemiology, toxicology, exposure modelling, biostatistics and research on biomarkers.

Background
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Department of Health

Javier Delgado — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:42:09 +0000

The Department of Health exists to improve the health and wellbeing of people in England.

For the Department of Health, success of Living with Environmental Change would be:
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Medical Research Council

Javier Delgado — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:54:32 +0000

The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a publicly-funded organisation dedicated to improving human health. The MRC supports research across the entire spectrum of medical sciences, in universities and hospitals, in its own units and institutes in the UK, and in its units in Africa.

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Health challenge

Javier Delgado — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:37:57 +0000

To understand and protect human health in a changing environment.

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