SHADE Newsletter 28th November 2024

Welcome to the twenty seventh edition of the SHADE newsletter! 

SHADE is a research hub with a mission to explore issues at the intersection of digital technologies/AI, health and the environment. It is guided by a fundamental question: How should the balance between AI/digital enabled health and planetary health be struck in different areas of the world, and what should be the guiding principles?

The SHADE newsletter comes out every two weeks, bringing you a selection of the latest news, upcoming events, academic publications and podcasts in the SHADE space.

In this newsletter, we highlight the costs of delaying action on climate change. We take a sweep through the latest on climate health analytics, bird flu, data centres, war zones, heat exposure and hurricanes, check in on tools and guides for climate mitigation and adaptation, call out the biggest contributors to climate change, take a look at AI and biosecurity and much more.  We hope you enjoy it!

Please tell us what you like, what you don’t like and what you think is missing at shade@kcl.ac.uk  

Highlight on the Costs of Inaction

News

What we’re listening to/ looking at

What we’re reading

Events

Opportunities

And finally, following reports in the October 17th edition of this newsletter on the Marburg virus outbreak in Rwanda, and how climate change can contribute to the frequency of such outbreaks, a sobering first hand account of the Rwandan experience.

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