ABSTRACT
As Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM),
Britain’s national school of public health and a leading postgraduate institution
worldwide for research and postgraduate education in global health, I have had
the opportunity to reflect on the crucial importance of environmental factors
to human health. I have also developed a personal interest (in collaboration
with colleagues at the LSHTM and internationally) in studying the impacts of
climate variability and change on human health and the effects of climate
change mitigation strategies, including the provision of clean energy, on public
health.
