Climate Change and Public Health Governance and Challenges

About the book

Climate Change and Public Health Governance and Challenges aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the various ways in which climate change and public health are interconnected. It addresses a range of issues, including the effects of climate change on health, the impact of the health sector on climate change, the intersections between health and climate policies, and the geopolitics surrounding these topics. The book explores specific subjects such as air pollution, heat-related health issues, climate finance, and water security, among other relevant topics. One of its goals is to examine different approaches and methodologies for studying the linkages between climate change and health, including evaluating the health impacts of climate change and developing policies for climate and health governance. It presents insights from both global and Indian perspectives, aiming to offer diverse viewpoints and explore effective and inclusive strategies for addressing this significant challenge.

Published by Manipal University Press

About the authors:

Helmut Brand is the Founding Director of the Prasanna School of Public Health (PSPH) at MAHE and holds the position of Jean Monnet Professor of European Public Health. He is also the Head of the Department of International Health at Maastricht University. Brand has served as the president of both the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG). Additionally, he acts as an advisor to the European Advisory Committee on Health Research of WHO Europe and to the Expert Panel on “Investing in Health” for the European Commission. His areas of expertise include Public Health Medicine and European Integration in Health.

Neethi V Rao is an adjunct faculty member and a health policy and systems researcher at the Institute of Public Health in Bengaluru. She also serves as a Consultant at the Supporting the Health System Governance and Policy Unit at WHO, where she focuses on developing normative work on participatory governance and policy, with particular emphasis on its application in the Southeast Asia region. Her expertise lies in health system governance and policy, with a specific focus on the Indian health policy ecosystem. She is also engaged in researching the impacts of climate change and environmental governance on public health.

Dhanasree Jayaram is a Co-coordinator at the Centre for Climate Studies at MAHE, Manipal, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations at MAHE, Manipal. She is currently based in Berlin, where she is a Research Fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch (CMB) and a Guest Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Additionally, she is a Research Fellow at Earth System Governance and a member of the Climate Security Expert Network and the Planet Politics Institute. Her recent work includes examining the geopolitical and security implications of solar geoengineering for the Global South in 2022, and she managed a project on “Climate Diplomacy” with Adelphi in Berlin from 2015 to 2020.

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