The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

📢 We are looking for a new Programme Manager! The Lancet Countdown collaboration brings together nearly 300 experts in climate change and health. Working across academic, policy engagement, and communications workstreams, we aim to provide the latest science to inform climate and health action. Our Programme Manager will work to coordinate this programme of work, ensuring integration between the Lancet Countdown’s different workstreams, and between its global and regional centres, to achieve the strategic objectives of the collaboration. Could you bring experience managing complex programmes of work, with strong co-ordination and people management skills? 📨 Apply by 10 January 2025: https://lnkd.in/eYjYN2Dq

📢 We are seeking to recruit a Head of Policy The postholder will be responsible for developing and leading an impactful and integrated programme of policy engagement and evidence translation for the Lancet Countdown collaboration - to deliver action on climate change and health. This will encompass a holistic approach spanning across the organisation’s six regional centres to ensure a complementary top-down and bottom-up approach to policy impact. Could this be you, or someone you know? Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eYjYN2Dq

📝 NEW PUBLICATION: 2024 Climate and Health Policy Priorities for Japan 📝 Japan is expected to unveil new national climate commitments known as NDCs in early 2025. In collaboration with leading experts in Japan, this document presents priority actions for Japan to secure a healthy future, supported by data from the 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown. Find the report, and other country-level climate and health resources here: https://lnkd.in/ecyr9umr

📢 WE ARE RECRUITING As the Lancet Countdown enters a new phase of work tracking the connections between health and climate change, we are recruiting for multiple positions. Find out more about the roles and the application process ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eYjYN2Dq

⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ Our first comprehensive study on health and climate change in small island developing states shows that the lack of climate action is endangering lives and livelihoods - despite island states spearheading international attention on climate and health. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ezj59Brp 🌊 More than a million people across SIDS are living in coastal areas that lie less than 1m above current sea level 🌡️ During the record-breaking summer heat of 2023, infants aged one year and younger experienced 48 times more heatwave days than the average in 2000–04 and older adults aged 65 and over experienced 36 times more heatwave days. 🍽️ Compared with the period 1981-2010, an additional 2.6 million people reported moderate or severe food insecurity as a consequence of drought and heatwave days in 2022 📢 At the United Nations General Assembly in 2022, 64% of all climate and health statements came from leaders of Small Island Developing States The report draws on data from the indicators of the 2023 and 2024 global Lancet Countdown reports to offer deeper insight into climate change-related impacts, mitigation, adaptation, economic capacity, and engagement specific to the 59 countries, states, and territories classified as UN member and associate-member Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The inaugural indicator report of the Lancet Countdown Small Island Developing States (SIDS) represent a collaborative effort involving 35 authors from the Pacific, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Asia. Georgiana Gordon-Strachan Kimalie Parchment Roannie Ng Shiu Salanieta Saketa Pablo Mendez-Lazaro Michelle Mycoo Paul Beggs Marina Belén Romanello, PhD fereidoon owfi Shouro Dasgupta, PhD Maria Walawender Maziar Moradi-Lakeh MD MPH Natalie Guthrie-Dixon Saria Hassan, MD, MPH Lanea Tuiasosopo

🚨 ¡Estamos contratando!  Únete a Lancet Countdown Latinoamérica como Research Fellow y sé parte de un equipo que trabaja en la intersección de cambio climático y salud en Latinoamérica.  Vacantes disponibles: – Grupo de Trabajo 1: Impactos, exposición y vulnerabilidad del cambio climático (medio tiempo). – Grupo de Trabajo 3: Acciones de mitigación y cobeneficios para la salud (medio tiempo). – Grupo de Trabajo 4: Economía y finanzas del cambio climático y la salud (tiempo completo). 🔗 Para más información y postulaciones, visita: https://lnkd.in/gSgsGU5b

Ayer presentamos el Reporte 2024 de The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change en Santiago de Chile, con una gran exposición de la investigadora Yasna Palmeiro Silva. Gracias a quienes nos acompañaron presencialmente y online, y al Centro de Políticas Públicas UC por su constante apoyo para generar estos espacios de diálogo.

🔁 Please share with your network! 🔁 The Lancet Countdown is seeking to recruit a Director for the Lancet Countdown Regional Centre in Africa. 🌍 Steer the direction of our research in Africa 👥 Build regional representation in the upcoming centre 📝 Inform a health-centred climate change response ⏲️ Deadline 15 December 2024 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eebgCmCz As we enter a new phase of work, the Lancet Countdown is expanding its regional activities, including launching a new Regional Centre in Africa. The centre will bring together a network of local researchers to annually monitor the evolving links between health and climate change in Africa through a regional indicator report, and contribute to increasing the representation of Africa within the global Lancet Countdown collaboration. The Regional Centre Director will be a globally-recognised academic researcher in Africa, working on aspects relevant to health and climate change. They will have made substantial contributions towards their field of study, and remain involved in leading research. Apply now: https://lnkd.in/eebgCmCz

🆕 Policy Brief for Australia 🆕 Australia reached an important health and climate change milestone in 2023, with the launch of the National Health and Climate Strategy by the Department of Health and Aged Care. The Australian Government also joined the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health (ATACH), signalling its intent to support local and international efforts to combat climate change. Despite these positive developments, we are facing severe climate crisis in Australia, the Oceania region, and around the world. Building on the MJA–Lancet Countdown 2023 Report, this Policy Brief for Australia outlines two key recommendations in the face of the health ramifications of climate change: 1️⃣ Develop a nuanced and inclusive National Heat and Health Action Plan 2️⃣ Rapidly and urgently scale up efforts to decarbonise health sector organisations This Policy Brief has been developed with Australian College of Nursing (ACN), Australian Indigenous Doctors' Association, Australian Medical Association, Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA), Medical Journal of Australia, Public Health Association of Australia, and The Royal Australasian College of Physicians.