Academic https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0051-5595

​2024

• Sustainability is critical for future proofing the NHS. R Issa, C Forbes, C Baker, M Morgan, K Womersley… - BMJ, 2024

2023

• Loss and damage responses to climate change. BMJ. 2023;383: 2182. Issa R, Thomas A, Firaq N, Wyns A.

• Planet.Health: An Ecosystem Approach to Imagine and Coordinate for Planetary Health Futures. Challenges. 2023;14: 39. Shannon G, Faddoul A, Lai A, Lai T, Lauer J, Rajagopalan S.... Issa R (senior author).

• Human migration on a heating planet: A scoping review. PLOS Climate. 2023;2: e0000214. Issa R, van Daalen KR, Faddoul A, Collias L, James R, Chaudhry UAR, et al.

• Envisioning environmental equity: climate change, health, and racial justice. Lancet. 2023. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00919-4

• Addressing Planetary Health through the Blockchain—Hype or Hope? A Scoping Review. Challenges 15 (1), 3. R Issa, C Wood, S Rajagopalan, R Chestnov, H Chesters, G Shannon

2022

• Regenerative economics for planetary health: A scoping review. International Health Trends and Perspectives. Dec 2022

• A Plan For Developing a Guide to Climate and Health Justice Education: Process and Content. The Journal of Climate Change and Health. Nov 2022

• On the politics and ethics of strike action by health professionals. The Lancet

• Climate change, health, and discrimination: action towards racial justice. The Lancet

• Extreme events and gender-based violence: a mixed-methods systematic review. The Lancet 

• Chronic NCD care in crises: A qualitative study of global experts' perspectives on models of care for hypertension and diabetes in humanitarian settings. Journal of Migration and Health. March 2022

• Meeting the health challenges of displaced populations from Ukraine, the Lancet. March 2022 

• A decade of the hostile environment and its impact on health. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Feb 2022

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2021

• Finding hope in COP26. The BMJ. November 2021.

• “The Handbook of Refugee Health” (co-editor). Text book; Editor. Routledge. November 2021 

• Mapping the movement for climate change and health in England: a descriptive review and theory of change analysis. Perspectives in Public Health. First author. October 2021

• Elder abuse in the UK: out of the shadows and on to the agenda. BMJ 

• "A Scoping Review to Assess Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes, Challenges and Recommendations in the Context of Climate Migration". Frontiers in Global Womens Health. Joint first author. October 2021​

•  What is needed for universal basic income? BJGP https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp21X716381

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Pre- '21

• “The UCL Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: The health of a world on the move" – The Lancet 2018

• Humanitarian Disaster for Rohingya Refugees: Impending Natural Hazards and Worsening Public Health Crises. The Lancet Global Health 2018

• “Climate Change, Biodiversity and Human Health”. June 2015. In book: Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health. A State of Knowledge Review. Publisher: WHO, Geneva

• Immunosuppression as a risk factor for the development of Visceral Leishmaniasis: a changing pattern at The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London. Fletcher K, Issa R. PLoS 2015.

• Climate change and adverse health events: community perceptions from the Tanahu district of Nepal. SR Mishra, (...) R Issa. Environmental Research Letters. 2015 

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Non-Academic 

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• NHS Workers Are Striking to Save Lives. Novara Media. 2022

• Monkeypox is Giving Us Another Lesson in Medical Stigma. Novara Media. 2022

• COVID-19 Lessons For Migrant-Resilient Primary Care Systems On A Warming Planet. Health Affairs Blog. 2021.

• “Our Oceans, Our Health” the Independent x Greenpeace series. 2021 

  • Episode 1:​I’m set to board Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise ship and expose the threats to our oceans

  • Episode 2: I’m at the world’s largest seagrass meadow – and it’s under threat

  • Episode 3: Industrial fishing is destroying marine ecosystems, and the communities that depend on them

  • Episode 4: Even in the far reaches of the Indian Ocean we can’t escape plastic waste 

  • Episode 5: Sea level rise threatens low lying islands like the Maldives – it isn’t enough to simply adapt

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• “It felt beautiful and precious - reflections of the student movement 10 years on”. (Contributor). Novara media 

• Now is the time for action – not just kind words – to help a devastated Beirut. The Independent 2020 

• Don’t just clap for carers tonight, chant for PPE. The Independent 2020

• The UN’s global climate conference has been delayed by coronavirus – and doctors are angry about it. The Independent 2020 

• The absence of health in the leaders climate debate is concerning. BMJ Blogs. 2019

• For doctors like me, joining Extinction Rebellion is a moral duty. The Independent 2019

• I'm a GP registrar – here's what's going to happen to the NHS now. The Independent 2019

• I wish Boris Johnson could sit in my GP’s chair and tell my sick and suffering patients we cannot give them what they need. The Independent 2019

• Consented Magazine: society through the NHS lens 

• TTIP will further align the UK and US health care systems. BMA Communities.

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Print about, but not by, me 

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• COP26 diary: making health central to tackling climate change. BMJ, October 2021. Richard Smith. 

• “Extinction Rebellion: meet the ‘ordinary’ women fighting climate change”. The Times 

• Can you integrate a migrant population? Lessons from refugee camps in lebanon – interview with Dr Rita Issa. Global GP project blog

• Why hundreds of GPs are backing extinction rebellion. Pulse magazine