Projects

Funded by the Leverhulme Trust under the "Critical Decade for Climate Change" programme at the Tyndall Centre to research solastalgia, a homesickness while at home, among Indigenous communities experiencing environmental loss.

Findings are informing WHO and UNEP guidance on health within Loss and Damage policy.

I was lead author of the World Health Organization's COP29 report on climate change and health, making the case for health as a central argument for climate action.

The report was drawn on as evidence in the International Court of Justice's proceedings on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change.

planet:health is a creative lab, unconference and network exploring what planetary health can become when rooted in indigenous knowledge and supported by emerging technologies. The project brings together artists, technologists, community leaders, and scientists to prototype new ways of seeing and acting in a time of ecological transition.

One of 26 selected commissioners, working to develop a vision for a society that prioritises outcomes related to health and wellbeing, and to build a health service that will serve us well for the next 75 years.

My primary focus is on health system sustainability and equity, and I lead the sustainability work.

I am on the board and teaching team for the Global Community Organizing and Advocacy for Climate and Health (Global COACH) Scholars programme at Harvard University.

I was co-founder of, and managed partnerships for, Unexia, a next-generation platform for global health finance. Its vision is a public goods economy for health, in which people autonomously coordinate to build the commons, and health impact is fairly rewarded.

I was external coordinator for the 'October rebellion'. We delivered over 25 talks to health professionals and members of the public on the climate crisis as a health emergency. 300+ health professionals gathered and marched from Shell HQ to Trafalgar Square, where pairs of shoes were laid out to highlight the daily deaths caused by air pollution across the UK.

Despite the rain, the turnout was strong and the action was covered across print and TV, including the BBC, Daily Mail, iNews, Huffington Post, ITV and Belfast Telegraph. The campaign made almost 1 million Twitter impressions and 24,000 reaches on Facebook in one week. In four months we trained over 50 doctors in speaking to the media. The total budget was £800.

I provided the health voice to the campaign for a just, green recovery from the covid-19 pandemic ('Build Back Better') and contributed to the All Party Parliamentary Group on the Green New Deal.

Xenohealth is a way of thinking about health beyond the boundaries of the individual human body, extending care to the strangers, species and systems we are bound up with. It asks what health and healing look like when they begin from kinship with the more-than-human world rather than separation from it.

I presented xenohealth at MOTH, and continue to develop it on my Substack.

Homefulness is the counterpart to homelessness: a felt sense of belonging, rootedness and care in place, even amid displacement and ecological loss. It reframes health around what it takes to feel at home, in a body, a community and a landscape.

I write more about homefulness on my Substack.