The Centre on Climate Change & Planetary Health (CCCPH) has established a new Steering Committee to oversee the activities of the Centre, and provide strategic advice and guidance to the Centre’s Management Team.
The CCCPH would like to thank Professor Andy Haines for his longstanding service, support and commitment to the Centre as Advisory Chair, and interim CCCPH Director before that.
The CCCPH Steering Committee will include the following members:
Professor Tafadzwa Mabhaudhi (Chair)
Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems & Health at LSHTM, based within the Department of Population Health. Tafadzwa applies a systems‑approach at the intersection of water, energy, food, environmental and health systems, also known as the WEF+ nexus, leading research, teaching and policy‑relevant work to strengthen sustainable, climate‑resilient food systems. At LSHTM, he coordinates and delivers several modules in the MSc Climate Change & Planetary Health, as well as teaching on the MSc Nutrition for Global Health. In addition to his role at LSHTM, Tafadzwa is the Lead for the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus for , and was Director of the Lancet Countdown Africa Centre.
Professor Rosie Green
Professor of Environment, Food and Health within the Department of Population Health at LSHTM, and Co-Director of the CCCPH. Rosie trained as an epidemiologist, and since joining LSHTM in 2011, has built a portfolio of research on the links between diets, the environment and human health, and developing new methods and models to study these relationships. She is the head of the Planetary Health Group in the Department of Population Health and is active in the Nutrition Group. In addition to organising modules on the MSc in Climate Change and Planetary Health, Rosie works on multiple projects, including the Pathfinder Initiative, the Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems (SHEFS) programme, the UKRI , the , and the FACE-Africa project.
Professor Kris Murray
Professor of Environmental Change and Health within the Department of Population Health and based at the Medical Research Unit The Gambia (MRCG) at LSHTM. Kris is Co-Director of the CCCPH, and leads the Planetary Health cross-cutting program at the MRCG, in addition to being a module organiser on the MSc Climate Change and Planetary Health. Kris has a broad background in ecology and epidemiology, with specific training and expertise in disease ecology, biodiversity, climate and land-use change, and sustainability science. His research interests include the human health impacts associated with environmental change, and the benefits to health that can be generated by implementing mutually beneficial solutions to environmental degradation. Kris is currently involved in a range of research areas, including the health impacts of large-scale landscape restoration, the relationships between zoonotic diseases, land-use change and climatic change, and sustainable diets and food systems.
Dr Laura Braun
Assistant Professor in the Department of Disease Control at LSHTM. Laura is an engineer by training whose research focuses on how environmental changes – in particular water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) – influence disease transmission. As part of LSHTM’s Environmental Health Group, she coordinates two clinical trials evaluating WASH interventions in Senegal and Mozambique and leads a study in Madagascar on schistosomiasis and climate change. Through the ITD Fellowship, she is also exploring nature-based solutions for vector control in agricultural systems, including rice-fish farming and alternate wetting and drying. She is a module organiser for WASH and Health, and teaches on the MSc Climate Change and Planetary Health, Diploma in Tropical Nursing, and Diploma in Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.
Dr Hugh Sharma Waddington
Assistant Professor in the Department of Population health at LSHTM. Hugh is a specialist in impact evaluation and evidence synthesis of global development and health programmes, and interested in rigorous empirical research that answers policy relevant questions on topics including climate and health, environmental health (primarily WASH), nutrition and development programmes. Hugh is part of the Pathfinder Initiative, the DESTINY project, and the UKRI-HEARTH project. He also supports evidence synthesis globally, including demand-driven research projects with Campbell South Asia for FCDO, and as a Co-Chair with Campbell Collaboration Climate Solutions. Hugh is a module organiser for Introduction to Health Economics and Distance Learning Environmental Epidemiology at LSHTM, and teaches on several MSc modules including Environment, Health and Sustainable Development.
Dr Peninah (Penny) Murage
Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society. Penny is an environmental epidemiologist researching the health effects of environmental change, and sustainable adaptation and mitigation solutions that can promote the rapid transition to a zero-carbon future. She uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand the complex linkages between people, places and natural ecosystems, and works across multiple projects including a Wellcome Trust Award to evaluate the heat adaptation impact of agroforestry in Tanzania, a Medical Research Foundation project on the impacts of climate change on non-communicable diseases in Senegal, the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Climate Change and Health Security (HPRU-CCHS) and HEARTH, a collaborative to explore the human health impacts of the UK’s transition to net zero. Penny also leads the Environmental Epidemiology Distance Learning module for the MSc Public Health.
These members will be joined by the LSHTM °®ÍþÄÌapp Coordinator, and CCCPH Communications Officer.
We look forward to an exciting future for the CCCPH under the Steering Committee’s leadership.
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