our planet, our health
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Saskia Heijnen
A global charitable foundation dedicated to improving
health by supporting bright minds in the sciences, the
humanities and public engagement.
Presentation
• Introduction to the Wellcome Trust
• Sustaining Health
• Health Impacts of Climate Change
• Examples of Funded projects
• Our Planet, Our Health
• Engagement
• Our Office environment and Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Trust
• Henry Wellcome b.1853
• Co-founded Burrough’s Wellcome in London in 1880
• Mass “Tabloid” production by 1882
• The Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to
achieving extraordinary improvements in human and
animal health.
• We are independent of both political and commercial
interests.
• Our breadth of support includes public engagement,
education and the application of research to improve
health.
Sustaining Health
Momentum is building
• 2014 IPCC report
• WHO Conference on Health
and Climate
• UN Climate Summit
• COP 21 meeting Dec 2015
Health impacts of climate change
• Health conditions sensitive to climate conditions
• e.g. malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease
• More severe heat waves
• More frequent floods and droughts
• Many of the processes that drive climate change also cause
immediate health problems
• Energy and transport choices
• e.g. air pollution
Spatial, social and environmental determinants
of malnutrition in Africa: a pilot in Kenya
Federal University of Bahia
Sustainable Healthy Urban
Environments
Seasonal drivers of human movement and
aggregation in a changing climate:
consequences for infectious disease dynamics
and control
Wellcome Trust’s new strategic approach
Our Planet, Our Health
Health impacts of climate change
Partners: WHO, World Bank, CDP, Tyndall
Centre, researchers (particularly Andy
Haines, Jonathan Patz and Tord Kjellstrom),
Wellcome Trust
The profiles: the country profiles will
present data on a number of issues in an
easily accessible way:
• Current climate data and health impacts
• Projected climate hazards and future
health impacts
• Health co-benefits
• Policy responses
UNFCCC
The Crunch
Launching in 2016
Our work environment
• Office environment
• Wellcome collection public spaces
• Biodegradable packaging
• ~90% recycling rate
• Air sensa monitors
• Photovoltaics
Wellcome.ac.uk/OurPlanetOurHealth