Climate Change is one of the most pressing public health concerns today, given the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events resulting from global warming. The linkages between such events and human health are both direct and indirect and are occurring on a grand scale globally.

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A Policy Brief: Climate Change and Epidemiology was published as a joint endeavor between INEP and the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) in Epidemiology, 30(1), January 2019. Lead authors, Wael Al-Delaimy and Michal Krzyzanowski. Its predecessor, the INEP Policy Brief on Climate Change and Epidemiology was endorsed by 14 INEP member organizations.

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Kathleen Ruff, INEP Expert Adviser, attended the inter-sessional meeting of the UNFCCC from May 8 to 18, 2017 in Bonn, Germany. In the Opinion piece, Climate change—UN fails to address industry influence, published by the BMJ on July 21 2017, Ms. Ruff describes how lobby organisations, representing the interests of fossil fuel and other industries, are working to defeat or weaken the goals of the UNFCCC. Not only are they participating in the meetings of the UNFCCC, they are being invited to play a stronger role in influencing the meetings. In the article, Ms. Ruff reports how the UNFCCC has rejected and refused to allow discussion of a proposal by countries from the global South for the UNFCCC to adopt a policy on conflict-of-interest.