Focus Areas
Climate and Health
Promoting the health of vulnerable populations by exploring climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions, addressing issues that arise from extreme weather, wildfires, natural disasters, extreme heat, eco-anxiety, displacement, and other climate-related impacts.
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Pollution and Health
Understanding and reducing the harm from pollution on the health of humans and the environment by redesigning business models and processes to reduce air, ocean, and land pollution, support health, and build more resilient and equitable economies.
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Disease Ecology in a Changing World
Investigating the ecological, environmental and socioeconomic determinants of diseases transmitted through the environment, projecting their future distributions under scenarios of climate change, and developing ecological solutions to improve human health and protect the health of the environment that underpins it.
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Food Systems, Health and the Environment
Generating knowledge to develop a food system that provides healthy affordable human nutrition while supporting thriving biodiverse terrestrial and aquatic environments, and reduces carbon emissions from the agricultural sector.
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