Linking human health and wellbeing with weather, climate and the environment
Lora E Fleming
University of Exeter
Professor Lora Fleming is the Director of the European Centre of Environment and Human Health and Chair of Oceans, Epidemiology and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School (www.ecehh.org). She is a board certified occupational and environmental health physician and epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience and expertise in environment and occupational exposures and human health research and training. With various international collaborators, Professor Fleming is involved in research and training in the new metadiscipline of Oceans and Human Health (www.ecehh.org/events/oceans-human-health/). She is the recipient of the 2013 Edouard Delcroix Prize and the 2015 Bruun Medal of the International Oceanographic Commission (IOC), for her research and other activities in Oceans and Human Health. Professor Fleming is a Member the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) to the NIEHS Gulf Oil Study, and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Science Board.
Abstract
A large part of the global disease burden can be linked to environmental factors, underpinned by unhealthy behaviours. However, research into these linkages suffers from the lack of common tools and databases for carrying out... [ view full abstract ]
Authors
- Lora E Fleming (University of Exeter)
- Christophe Sarran (Met Office)
- Gordon Nichols (Public Health England (PHE))
- Brian Golding (Met Office)
- Andy Haines (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
- Abdelmajid Djennad (Public Health England (PHE))
- Shakoor Hajat (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
- Ceri Whitmore (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School)
- Anthony Kessel (Public Health England (PHE))
- Harriet Gordon Brown (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School)
- Neil Kaye (Met Office)
- Trevor Bailey (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School)
- Michael Depledge (European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter Medical School)
Topic Area
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Session
PS » Poster Session Available from 14th - 17th August (16:45 - Wednesday, 17th August, Arts/Science Concourse)
