• Building Emotional Resilience, Solving Climate Change and Preventing Neocolonialism! Dr Amy Booth Provides the Answers!

  • May 27 2024
  • Length: 46 mins
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Building Emotional Resilience, Solving Climate Change and Preventing Neocolonialism! Dr Amy Booth Provides the Answers!

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  • Dr Amy Booth is a medical practitioner from South Africa. While working during the COVID-19 pandemic, she became aware of the environmental impact of health systems, prompting her to embark on research in this area. She is currently based at the University of Oxford where she is doing doctoral research, funded by a Rhodes Scholarship, on the carbon footprint of the pharmaceutical supply chain.


    She concurrently co-runs a Sustainable Health Care course at Oxford. She has previously consulted with the World Health Organisation on the role of environmental sources in contributing to anti-microbial resistance, with the United Nations on developing a standardised framework for measuring sustainability, is a member of an EU-wide Erasmus+ project on sustainable prescribing and sits on the Global Lethal Humidity Council. She has several publications on the intersection of climate and health and has presented on this topic on multiple national and international platforms, including featuring on the BBC Focus on Africa podcast. She is a member of the first cohort of the UK Young Academy and an Emerging Research Leader in Climate and Health.


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