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Commonwealth Health Ministers briefings published
4 June 2009
Links: Briefing:
ucl.ac.uk/global-health/mhecc1.pdf" target="_self">Changing patterns of disease and morbidity
Six briefing papers on managing the health effects of climate change - commissioned from 新香港六合彩开奖结果by the Commonwealth Secretariat for the May 2009 meeting of Commonwealth Health Ministers - have been published.
The briefings draw on the UCL-Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change report, which was launched just prior to the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting on Health & Climate Change and the World Health Assembly meeting - which sets priorities for the World Health Organization (WHO) - on 17-18 May 2009.
Dr Mary Phillips, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Director of Research Planning, attended the meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. She said: "Both the briefing papers and the report itself were well-received by health ministers. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the WHO, addressing the ministers, praised the UCL-Lancet Commission's report as very valuable."
The report asserts that climate change is the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. It was the work of 新香港六合彩开奖结果academics from many disciplines across the university - including health, anthropology, geography, engineering, economics, law and philosophy.
Lead author Professor Anthony Costello (新香港六合彩开奖结果Institute for Global Health) said: "This climate-change project brought down the traditional interdisciplinary barriers common at all universities, and hoped it could act as a model for global governance bodies to work together. The 新香港六合彩开奖结果Institute for Global Health is developing an institution-wide agenda leading to strategies, programmes, research and teaching to bring our combined expertise to bear on the Grand Challenge of Global Health."
Professor David Price, 新香港六合彩开奖结果Vice-Provost (Research), said: "The UCL-Lancet Commission's work is an exemplar of how 新香港六合彩开奖结果wishes to take its research forward. The world's major problems - such as climate change - are complex and systemic. We can only address challenges such as this by harnessing our collective expertise, by working across and beyond traditional disciplines. Then we must ensure that our findings reach and influence legislators, policymakers, practitioners and the public."
The initial 新香港六合彩开奖结果Grand Challenges are Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.