Bio: Sari Kovats is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Sari has a PhD in environmental epidemiology and her research interests are primarily on methods to assess the health impacts of climate change and to generate evidence for adaptation planning in public health. She has worked on a range of (observational) studies on climate/weather to quantify their impacts on health and developed frameworks for the assessment of future climate change impacts on human health. Sari was co-lead for the chapter on Health, Communities and the Built Environment of the evidence report for the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment. Sari was Coordinating Lead Author for the multi-disciplinary regional chapter on Europe in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (2014). She has also co-authored several key scientific assessments on climate change and health at national and regional levels. She has provided expert advice on climate change, climate variability, global environmental change and health to WHO, WMO, the World Bank, UNICEF, and the UK Government (Defra, DHSC, UKHSA) and local government (Greater London Authority).

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