Health

Meet our 2024/25 Earth Fellows cohort!

Back in November, we formally welcomed our latest cohort of 14 Earth Fellows – a...

December 5, 2024

Energy Enterprise & Innovation Health Innovation Justice Student Experience Students

University entrepreneurs tackle global challenges in startup accelerator

Startups focused on carbon capture, breastmilk donation and machine learning took centre stage at this...

October 3, 2024

Health Research

£5.9M Wellcome Award funds social scientists tackling single-use plastics in healthcare

After the Single Use, a collaborative project led by Professor Alice Street of the University...

June 6, 2024

Energy Health Justice Research

“Children are like canaries in a coal mine” Dr Swann’s investigation of health and energy

An academic paediatrician at the University of Edinburgh is unpicking the links between energy use,...

May 30, 2024

Health Research Students

Clean plate club: Strength2Food research group takes on primary school plate (food) waste

In a multi-country collaboration, the Strength2Food research group conducted a nutritional and plate waste study...

May 22, 2024

Cars Health Innovation Land & Seas Research

How car culture endangers our health, our environment, our society and what Scotland can do about it

“We have built a whole system around cars; car culture is prioritising cars above everything...

May 6, 2024

Earth Day Health Plastics

Life in plastic, not so fantastic: Edinburgh researcher takes aim at plastics in healthcare

In a little over 100 years since its invention, plastic has transformed our world, simultaneously...

April 22, 2024

Health Research

The role of genomics in safeguarding global food security

Long-term changes in temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and extreme weather events are increasingly posing a...

April 4, 2024

Health Students

Integrating Climate and Health: Bridging Disciplinary Divides for a Sustainable Future

COP28’s inaugural Health Day was reflective of a growing recognition for the intersections of health...

March 4, 2024

Health Justice Research

Jamaican climate justice project promotes ancestral food heritage for resilience

The Caribbean is facing a trio of interlinked crises. The climate crisis is accelerating biodiversity...

February 8, 2024

Health Partnership Research Students

Insights into the BLOOM study: investigating benefits of natural farming on human health

Recognizing that climate change poses an imminent and severe threat to human health, this year’s...

November 30, 2023

Energy Health Justice Partnership Research Students

COP28 Joint Statement by University of Edinburgh Delegates

COP28 – a global conference that tackles the climate crisis – launches today in Dubai,...

November 30, 2023

Health Justice Research Students

Climate and Health profile: Blue and Green Spaces and Sustainable Outdoor Environments

Based at the Edinburgh College of Art, OPENspace is a research centre committed to making...

November 21, 2023

Enterprise & Innovation Health

Combating Plastic Pollution Using Synthetic Biology: An Interview with Dr Alex Speakman, E.V.A Biosystems

On the 8th of June, Edinburgh Innovations held their annual Inspire, Launch, Grow awards to...

June 29, 2023

Health Research Students

Exploring the Polemics of Fire: ‘Dilli ki Sardi’ Film Screening and Panel

On May 26, the Edinburgh Earth Initiative hosted a film screening and panel discussion to...

June 21, 2023

Health Land & Seas Research Students

The Plastic Pandemic: Rethinking Medical Device Innovation, Use and Disposal for a Circular Economy

A guest blog from Advanced Earth Fellow Marie-Louise Wöhrle, organiser of the ‘The Plastic Pandemic:...

June 13, 2023

Health Partnership Research

Medical Practice & Environmental Sustainability: The Medical Waste Project

The theme for this year’s World Environment Day on June 5 focuses on finding practical...

May 26, 2023

Energy Health Justice Research

The Heat Researchers across The University of Edinburgh Tackling the Impacts of a Warming World

Heat is one of the key intersecting drivers in the issues of climate and health...

May 25, 2023

Energy Enterprise & Innovation Health Land & Seas Student Experience Students

Announcing the Winners of the Sustainable Business Idea Competition

Abigael Pertet, Emilio Soberon Bravo, Eloise Bevan and Maarten Van Den Ancker were recently announced...

May 25, 2023

Health Student Experience

Taking the Initiative on Climate and Health: Health in a Warming World

On April 27, Edinburgh Earth Initiative organised the ‘Health in a Warming World’ event. Hosted...

May 4, 2023

Health Justice Land & Seas

Ocean Voices, Ocean Leaders, and the UN High Seas Treaty

The Ocean Voices and Ocean Leaders programmes at The University of Edinburgh are taking the...

April 6, 2023

Enterprise & Innovation Health Students

Sanitree: Tackling Period Poverty, One Milestone at a Time

In keeping with the theme of climate and health, the Edinburgh Earth Initiative – in...

March 20, 2023

Health Justice Research

Welcoming the Commonwealth Clean Air Fellows

The Edinburgh Earth Initiative recently welcomed Pratap Chandra Acharya, Swati Kumari, and Suparna Karmakar, all from...

March 16, 2023

Health Land & Seas Research

From the Amazon to the Scottish Highlands: Local and Global peatlands research

Global peatlands are vital stores of carbon, but they are under threat. Changing patterns of...

November 14, 2022

Health Partnership

Learning for a Sustainable Development: Lessons from Una Europa One Health Summer School

One Health works towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and explores how the health of...

November 13, 2022

Health Land & Seas Partnership

Driving Environmental Sustainability in Medical Practice through Innovative Research: The DiaDev Project

Whilst medical and life sciences research and innovation have direct social, economic and cultural benefits,...

November 13, 2022

Energy Health Land & Seas

Engineering a Microbial Response to Ecological Crises

New developments in engineering biology have put two groups of Edinburgh academics at the cutting...

November 8, 2022

Global Agriculture and Food Security Health Partnership Research

Modelling future food security

Dr Peter Alexander, Senior Lecturer in Global Food Security at the University of Edinburgh and...

September 4, 2022

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