Where’s health at the COP? Maya Tickell-Painter December 7, 2011 Uncategorized In my last post, I wrote about why health professionals should care about climate change. Luckily, it seems that I’m not the only one who’s thought of this- more than ever before, health professionals are...
Why should health professionals care about climate change? Maya Tickell-Painter December 1, 2011 Uncategorized This year, for the first time, the UK has sent a delegation of 5 medical students to the UN climate talks. Before we left, almost everyone one I told asked me a variation on the same basic question: ‘what has health got to do with climate change?’