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This episode discusses how climate change is impacting global health, particularly in relation to infectious diseases and health inequalities.

In this episode of the RCP Medicine Podcast, Dr Aula Abbara, consultant in infectious diseases and internal medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and an infectious diseases and malaria advisor to MSF Amsterdam, joins Dr Bryony Alderman, palliative medicine consultant and RCP Sustainability Education Fellow. Together, they explore how climate change is reshaping global health, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, health inequalities, forced displacement, and the increasi...

People in this episode

Host: Dr Bryony Alderman

Guest: Dr Aula Abbara

Topics covered

• climate change
• global health
• infectious diseases
• health inequalities
• forced displacement

Keywords

• climate change
• global disease
• infectious diseases
• health inequalities
• humanitarian crises

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, MSF Amsterdam

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