Swine flu pandemic: a year later
Last Friday, June 11th, marked one year from the declaration of the 2009 influenza pandemic. Criticism of the World Health...
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Scepticism seems to be the hardest word
I’ve listened to – but never taken a side in the climate change debate for as long as it has...
Climate change: stressing mental health – and uncertainty
Predicted impacts of climate change on health range from heat stroke to famine. A framework published in December now sheds...
Swine flu backlash
Back in October I began to suspect that pandemic response measures would come to be criticised if a severe winter...
Another epidemiological transition?
A literature review by Montira Pongsiri of the US Environmental Protection Agency and colleagues suggests we are moving towards the...
EHDN: Environment and Health Through a Poverty Lens
The PDF of a presentation I gave last June at the Environment Health and Development Network (EHDN) Inaugural Symposium was...
Science and policy: keeping it real
The fallout from the recent debate in the UK about reclassification of illegal drugs has a lot to do with...