Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a leading expert on climate change and health. He is co-principal investigator of the Pathfinder Initiative on a healthy net-zero future, funded by the Wellcome Trust, senior scientific adviser to the Pan-European Commission on Climate Change and Health, and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Independent Panel on the Effects of Nuclear War. He previously served as Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2001–2010). Earlier in his career, he was Professor of Primary Health Care at University College London, a general practitioner in inner London, and a consultant epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council. He has also held advisory and leadership roles with the World Health Organization, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and numerous international research bodies. Professor Haines has published extensively on public health, climate change and planetary health. He qualified in medicine at King’s College London and holds an MD in Epidemiology from the University of London.
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