Dr. Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum This is Me

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1. 1. technews.iit.edu

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   Published on: 4/15/2008   Last Visited: 4/15/2008

   "A lot of cardiovascular risk could be avoided by targeting the urban heat effect," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, a climate change expert at the World Health Organization. Although some European countries have put heat warning systems into place to alert people when they might be at increased risk, more needs to be done, Campbell-Lendrum said.

2. 2. www.healthcarereform.com

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   Published on: 3/16/2008   Last Visited: 6/13/2008

   "This outbreak is most important as a warning signal," said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, a climate change expert at the World Health Organization."Climate change affects the breeding of every mosquito on earth."
   
   More mosquitoes will mean more disease.With warmer temperatures in the future, Europe and North America might be hit by outbreaks of diseases usually confined to southern continents.
   
   "With more movement of people and a changing climate, there will be shifting patterns of disease," Campbell-Lendrum said.

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   Published on: 11/9/2007   Last Visited: 2/16/2008

   Big developing countries like China and India can play a huge role in improving health by expanding their use of cleaner energy sources, said Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, an expert on global environmental change and health at the World Health Organization.
   
   "The policy options that you choose to try to cut (carbon dioxide) emissions also have very important health effects," he said from the agency's headquarters in Geneva. "If you choose the right ones, then you can certainly have a win-win at cutting CO2 emissions and directly benefiting health."
   
   Urban air pollution, for example, kills about 800,000 people a year globally, according to WHO. More than half of those deaths occur in China, the world's second-largest greenhouse gas emitter after the United States, the agency said.
   
   Promoting walking or bicycling instead of driving could further reduce major health problems like diabetes and heart disease that are striking many rapidly developing countries, Campbell-Lendrum said.
   
   A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. network of 2,000 scientists, was being hammered out for a fourth day Thursday by conference delegates from more than 120 countries. A final version was expected by Friday.
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   Countries can start working to reduce the impact of climate change on health by revving up resources to tackle existing diseases that are expected to worsen, Campbell-Lendrum said.
   
   "We know that the climate is changing. That's no longer in dispute. We also know that many of our largest current health burdens are highly sensitive to climatic conditions," he said.