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Andrew Harmer

Dr Andrew Harmer is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health at Queen Mary University of London where he directs an online MSc in Global Public Health. He is also an activist and has participated in various direct actions to raise public awareness of the health consequences of climate breakdown.
 

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COP26: Health at last gets its big day.

I am, of course, referring to the People’s Health Hearing: Health Justice means Climate Justice that convened on Sunday 7th November, and which can be viewed on YouTube in both English and Spanish. Unlike other events on health held over the mid weekend of COP26, this hearing was conceived primarily as a platform for people from around the wo...

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A world in flames: The Mad Maxus and the olive tree.

It’s hard to gauge how much of the world’s attention is focused on the World Health Assembly this week. It does, after all, coincide with the launch of Chapter 5, Season 3 of Fortnite, the popular online shoot ‘em up video game. I imagine most people under the age of twenty care more about that than they do about global health. For the...