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23 June 2025 at The Conduit

The Conference for a Resilient Future

Record-breaking heatwaves, rising global temperatures, and climate-driven disease outbreaks are putting human health under increasing pressure. The question is no longer if we act – but how fast.

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23 JUNE 2025 AT THE CONDUIT

Record-breaking heatwaves, rising global temperatures, and climate-driven disease outbreaks are putting human health under increasing pressure. The question is no longer if we act – but how fast.

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Build a Healthier World this London Climate Action Week

Kicking off London Climate Action Week 2025, this flagship climate and health conference convenes global leaders from science, public health, business and policy. Together, we’ll explore innovative, real-world solutions – on topics such as extreme heat, air pollution, infectious disease, mental health and nutrition – to build climate-resilient communities in a rapidly changing world.   

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"The effect of climate change and health - especially mental health - needs to be highlighted by all involved in health policy"

Stella Kyriakides - Former Commissioner for Health and Food Safety of the EU

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Calling Health Changemakers

Together we'll connect brilliant minds across disciplines and sectors, bringing together networks across healthcare, tech, policymaking and philanthropy.

Innovators
Innovators

Tech leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives driving sustainable healthcare. 

Policy Makers
Policy Makers

Tech pioneers, entrepreneurs, and
C-suite executives driving sustainable healthcare solutions.

Healthcare Experts
Healthcare Experts

Doctors, researchers, and public health professionals advancing adaptive care. 

Investors and Philanthropists
Investors and Philanthropists

Philanthropists and funders backing transformative solutions. 

Industry Leaders
Industry Leaders

Corporate changemakers balancing profit with purpose.

 

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Founding Partner

Wellcome supports science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone. We support discovery research into life, health and wellbeing, and we’re taking on three worldwide health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

Our mission for our climate and health programme is to generate the health evidence for policy action that protects health from climate change. By working with researchers and other organisations, we’re supporting the climate and health field to embed health research into climate policy.

Conference Agenda: Breaking New Ground 

Together, we'll explore practical solutions to address the health impacts of climate change.

MORNING

08:00 - 09:30

Registration and Breakfast

09:30

Welcome Remarks

09:35

Opening Keynote

09:45

Building Climate-Resilient Health Systems

As climate change accelerates, so do its profound impacts on health, from overwhelmed hospitals to shifting disease patterns and supply chain disruptions.   

This session will consider how we can design health infrastructure that is not only reactive but also resilient. We will cover:   

  • Improving transparency and trust in healthcare   
  • Emergency response, the role of telemedicine in bridging access gaps, and early warning systems  
  • How renewables can ensure continuity of care and decarbonise health systems  
  • Using sustainable hospital design to limit environmental impact   
  • Better public-private collaboration, and innovations in climate and health financing
LIAM SMEETH
Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Liam Smeeth

Liam Smeeth is the Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and professor of clinical epidemiology. He is a global leader in the use of computerized health data for research. He was previously a Trustee of the British Heart Foundation and a non-executive director of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. He is a member of the strategic oversight committee for UK Biobank and an elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He co-chairs the BMJ Commission on the Future of the NHS. In response to the Covid pandemic he co-led the creation of the OpenSafely resource. 

SAUL JOHNSON
Partner - Health, Genesis Analytics

Saul Johnson

Dr Saul Johnson has worked in healthcare in Africa for over 30 years.  He is the Partner in charge of the Health Practice at Genesis Analytics. Saul is a qualified doctor, with further degrees in public health and epidemiology. His areas of expertise include behaviour change communication, epidemiology, research, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), health system improvement, organisational development and change management. Since much of his focus has been on infectious diseases like HIV and TB, Saul was deeply involved in responding to the Covid pandemic, and is reviewing interventions to mitigate the impact of climate change on health systems. Saul started his own consulting company in 2002, Health & Development Africa, which he grew into a 60 person organisation. He sold this company in 2010 to Mott MacDonald, where he worked for another 4 years. He joined Genesis in 2016 to start up a Health Practice there. Saul also has a degree in coaching, and is passionate about passing on his experience to others. 

10:15

Fighting Infectious Diseases

In an era of global connectivity and environmental disruption, infectious diseases are evolving at an alarming pace. But so are the solutions.

This discussion will move beyond the crisis narrative to explore breakthrough technologies, policy shifts, and community-driven solutions. We will cover:

  • How climate change accelerates the spread of infectious diseases
  • The latest innovations in disease surveillance and rapid response
  • How to address the market for antibiotics to tackle AMR and encourage more drug development
  • International collaboration to stop the next crisis before it begins
  • The potential impact of the global pandemic preparedness treaty
ANTHONY MCDONNELL
Policy Fellow, Centre for Global Development

Anthony McDonnell

Anthony is a policy fellow in CGD’s global health policy team. He leads CGD’s work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), including modelling the macro-economic burden of AMR and was previously the technical lead of CGD’s working group, A New Grand Bargain to Improve the Antimicrobial Market for Human Health. He has also led projects analysing the COVID-19 vaccine portfolio, examining policy interventions to protect the supply chains for pharmaceuticals from COVID-19-induced shocks, and contributed to the international Decision Support Initiative’s work in Ethiopia. 

Before joining CGD, he was Head of Economic Research for the UK’s Independent Review into AMR which was set up by the UK government and the Wellcome Trust; led a Wellcome Trust project examining how it could fund more economic research; a research associate at ODI working on the political economy of why governments role out health services in LMICs, (particularly those aimed at reaching the left behind); and a senior health economist at the University of Oxford, modelling the cost of malaria interventions. 

Anthony has a master’s in public and economic policy from the London School of Economics, and his undergraduate degree is from Trinity College Dublin. 

Anthony is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, an independent, non-partisan think tank, where he leads the organisation’s work on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He was formerly head of economic research for the UK’s Independent Review into AMR, set up by the UK government. 

11:15

Networking Break

11:30

Solutions for a Warming World

Extreme heat is one of the deadliest climate threats, costing around half a million lives a year.

With rising temperatures threatening life, straining infrastructure, and deepening social inequalities, this session will cover:

  • The latest scientific findings on heat exposure and its effects
  • How cities are responding with cooling strategies and infrastructure adaptations
  • Innovations in early-warning systems
  • The role of water management
  • How business, healthcare, and policy can collaborate to build resilience
PETER BABUDU
Executive Director, Impact on Urban Health

Peter Babudu

Peter leads all areas of work at Impact on Urban Health. 

Peter has been the Executive Director for Impact on Urban Health since 2023. 

Peter brings together our programmes’ funding and partnerships, as well as the work of our data, evidence and innovation teams in support of our urban health work. Peter brings a range of experience in senior leadership roles, in organisations including the Youth Endowment Fund and The Social Innovation Partnership. He also previously served as a Councillor in Southwark Council and as Chair of Blagrave Trust. 

12:15

Protecting Mental Health in a Climate Crisis

The mental health impacts of climate change are vast but often overlooked. Alongside the physical risks – wildfires, hurricanes, rising sea levels, and extreme heat – communities on the frontlines face deep emotional and psychological strain, and younger generations grapple with eco-anxiety and feelings of helplessness about the future. This session will cover:

  • The scale and nature of climate-related mental health impacts
  • How healthcare support structures and policy interventions can help
  • Community-based innovations
  • Developing trauma-informed care
  • Nature-based therapies
  • The disproportionate effects of mental health on the global south and small island states 

13:00

Lunch

AFTERNOON

14:00

Tackling the Health Crisis of Air Pollution

Rising temperatures, wildfires, and industrial emissions are having a devastating impact on air quality. As this pollution drives a rise in respiratory diseases, cardiovascular conditions, and premature deaths, this session investigates how the healthcare sector can respond. This session will cover:

  • How vulnerable populations – children, the elderly, low-income communities – bear the heaviest burden
  • How city-level clean-air policies can drive health benefits 
  • The role of the health sector in protecting air quality
  • Public awareness and advocating for clean air policies
  • Preventative care and behavioural change

14:45

Ensuring Sustainable Food Security

As shifting weather patterns disrupt agriculture and threaten nutrition, and the ways we farm our food contribute to the problem, new approaches are emerging for more climate resilient food systems. We will cover:

  • The role of regenerative agriculture
  • Shortening food supply chains
  • Innovations in sustainable farming and alternative proteins
  • Combatting food loss and waste
ALEJANDRO GUARIN
Food Systems Transformation Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance

Alejandro Guarin (2)

Alejandro Guarin is the food systems transformation lead at the World Benchmarking Alliance, where he works to ensure that companies contribute to building a fairer and more sustainable food system. Alejandro’s research, advocacy, and policy engagement includes social and environmental issues related to smallholder agriculture, markets, value chains, and consumption. He has experience working in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. Previously he was food systems lead at IIED in London, a researcher with the German Development Institute in Bonn, and a consultant for FAO. He has a PhD in geography from Berkeley and studied biology at the National University of Colombia. 

15:15

Networking Break

15:45

Managing the Health Impacts of Water Stress

Extreme weather events such as drought and flooding increase in frequency, putting the availability of clean water at risk. This supply is fundamental to human life with severe impacts on health, energy, agriculture, and industry. This session will delve into solutions to water stress and its impact on healthcare. We will cover:

  • The impacts of water stress on global health
  • Water management practices, such as efficient irrigation and water conservation
  • Infrastructure development including dams, reservoirs, and water treatment plants, to improve storage and distribution
  • Policy and regulation to promote water conservation and protect resources
  • Community engagement in water management planning and decision-making

16:30

Closing Keynote

16:50

Final Remarks

17:00 - 18:30

Cocktails and Canapés

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Global Witness is an investigative, campaigning organisation. They expose how the industries fuelling the climate crisis profit from destruction, and stand with the people fighting back to defend their communities and their rights.

Using cutting-edge investigative methods, they shine a light on the financial and political systems that enable corporate abuses of power that harm people and planet. 

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Julius Baer is a leading Swiss wealth management group specialising in private banking and investment services. Julius Baer has a long tradition of supporting a carefully selected range of issues and organisations with a view to preserving the best of today and ensuring a better tomorrow - from fostering leaders of the future to helping reduce wealth inequality and tackling environmental challenges. 

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Monday – Thursday: 7am – 11pm

Friday: 7am – 12am

Saturday: 10am – 11pm

Sunday: Closed

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