IPD 2023: The climate crisis is a health crisis 

This presentation from Professor Virginia Murray, Head of Global Disaster Risk Reduction at UK Health Security Agency, demonstrates how climate change intersects with a range of other health threats with significant potential to generate and compound complex health security which includes some of the following challenges: Heat-related mortality increasing in every inhabited continent, increases in waterborne and vector-borne diseases, as evidenced by increased childhood diarrhoeal disease, are observed in some regions during extreme weather events.