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Organizations and Initiatives
Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School aims at expanding environmental education at medical schools and to further investigate and promote awareness of the human health consequences of global environmental change. Main projects include the Center's course, online publication, The Bulletin, policy-maker education programs, media outreach, secondary education, general public programs and special projects.
CIFOR Forests and Human Health Initiative. Researchers at the Center for Int'l Forestry Research (CIFOR) are investigating the role of forest ecosystems in human health. This includes exploring the relationships between environmental change, biodiversity degradation and human diseases, as well as working with human communities to improve their health conditions.
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COHAB Initiative, Co-operation On Health And Biodiversity, is an international programme established to respond to the gaps in awareness and existing policies on issues linking biodiversity with human health and well-being. The Initiative aims to establish an international, inter-disciplinary collaborative framework to support existing activities on international development, biodiversity conservation and population health, and to support the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
The Consortium for Conservation Medicine is a unique collaborative institution that strives to understand the link between anthropogenic environmental change, the health of all species, and the conservation of biodiversity.
The Convention of Biological Diversity is an international treaty to sustain the rich diversity of life on Earth.
Ecosystem approaches to human health program initiative at Canada's International Development Research Centre supports research on the relationship between all components of an ecosystem to define and assess priority problems that affect the health of people and the sustainability of their ecosystem.
EDEN - Emerging Diseases in a changing European eNvironmentis an Integrated Project of the European Commission that aims to identify and catalogue those European ecosystems and environmental conditions which can influence the spatial and temporal distribution and dynamics of human pathogenic agents. The project develops and co-coordinates a set of generic methods, tools and skills such as predictive models, early warning and monitoring tools which can be used by decision makers for risk assessment, decision support for intervention and public health policies.
Global Environmental Change and Human Health (GEC&HH). This project is being developed in partnership with Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The project's main research goals are to identify and quantify health risks posed by global environmental change now and in the future; describe spatial and temporal differences in health risks to better understand vulnerabilities and priorities for interventions; develop adaptation strategies for reducing health risks, assess their cost-effectiveness, and communicate results.
HEAL - Health and Environment Alliance, formerly EPHA Environment Network (EEN), is an international non-governmental organisation advocating greater protection of the environment as a means to improving the health and well being of European citizens.
International Association for Ecology and Health, EcoHealth, strives for sustainable health of people, wildlife and ecosystems by promoting discovery, understanding and transdisciplinarity.
Centre for Global Health Research at Kenya Medical Research Institute
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (ANU): Environment, climate and health studies the impacts of urban air pollution, environmental (especially UV radiation) influences on immune disorders, interlinked environmental, climatic and social influences on infectious disease emergence and spread, and health risks due to global climate change.
Sādhana Forest project is re-establishing the native dry evergreen tropical forest in South India in a sustainable manner.