Saskia Heijnen

A global charitable foundation dedicated to improving

health by supporting bright minds in the sciences, the

humanities and public engagement.

Presentation

• Introduction to the Wellcome Trust

• Sustaining Health

• Health Impacts of Climate Change

• Examples of Funded projects

• Our Planet, Our Health

• Engagement

• Our Office environment and Wellcome Collection

Wellcome Trust

• Henry Wellcome b.1853

• Co-founded Burrough’s Wellcome in London in 1880

• Mass “Tabloid” production by 1882

• The Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to

achieving extraordinary improvements in human and

animal health.

• We are independent of both political and commercial

interests.

• Our breadth of support includes public engagement,

education and the application of research to improve

health.

Sustaining Health

Momentum is building

• 2014 IPCC report

• WHO Conference on Health

and Climate

• UN Climate Summit

• COP 21 meeting Dec 2015

Health impacts of climate change

• Health conditions sensitive to climate conditions

• e.g. malaria, malnutrition, diarrhoeal disease

• More severe heat waves

• More frequent floods and droughts

• Many of the processes that drive climate change also cause

immediate health problems

• Energy and transport choices

• e.g. air pollution

Spatial, social and environmental determinants

of malnutrition in Africa: a pilot in Kenya

Federal University of Bahia

Sustainable Healthy Urban

Environments

Seasonal drivers of human movement and

aggregation in a changing climate:

consequences for infectious disease dynamics

and control

Wellcome Trust’s new strategic approach

Our Planet, Our Health

Health impacts of climate change

Partners: WHO, World Bank, CDP, Tyndall

Centre, researchers (particularly Andy

Haines, Jonathan Patz and Tord Kjellstrom),

Wellcome Trust

The profiles: the country profiles will

present data on a number of issues in an

easily accessible way:

• Current climate data and health impacts

• Projected climate hazards and future

health impacts

• Health co-benefits

• Policy responses

UNFCCC

The Crunch

Launching in 2016

Our work environment

• Office environment

• Wellcome collection public spaces

• Biodegradable packaging

• ~90% recycling rate

• Air sensa monitors

• Photovoltaics

s.heijnen@wellcome.ac.uk

Wellcome.ac.uk/OurPlanetOurHealth