Keynote speakers

Professor Andy Haines

Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Andy Haines was Director (formerly Dean) of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine from 2001 to October 2010, having been trained in family practice and epidemiology. He developed an interest in climate change and health in the 1990s and was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second, third and fifth assessment exercises. He chaired the Rockefeller/Lancet Commission on Planetary Health (2014-15) and the InterAcademy Partnership (140 science academies worldwide) working group on climate change and health. He is currently co-chairing the Lancet Pathfinder Commission on health in the net zero economy. He was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement in 2022.

Michelle C Turner

Associate Research Professor, Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain

Michelle Turner has actively conducted research in both North America and Europe. She was Vice-Chair of the 40-country European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action “Coordination and Harmonization of European Occupational Cohorts (OMEGA-NET)” network which sought to optimize the use of occupational, industrial, and population cohorts in Europe. In 2021, she was awarded the Epidemiology in Occupational Health (EPICOH) Mid-Career Award for exceptional contribution to the practice of occupational epidemiology. She currently serves as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) (2019-2025). She is Coordinator of the new Horizon Europe EU INTERCAMBIO project (2024-2028), which seeks to promote mental and physical health of workers in changing work environments due to climate change, implementation of new working practices, and among workers in green jobs.