The climate crisis is a health crisis
We mobilise the global health community to accelerate climate action
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We are doctors, nurses, clinicians, and therapists. We are health advocates, researchers, public health and policy experts.
We have come together because, wherever we are in the world, we are seeing how the climate crisis is impacting our patients, our communities, our public health and healthcare systems. Respiratory diseases are escalating; communicable diseases are spreading; humanitarian disaster are becoming more frequent.
The climate crisis is a health crisis and our communities and healthcare systems are starting to buckle.
But there is an answer: Climate solutions can be health solutions. That’s why we’re working together to hold decision makers accountable. To protect human health, we have to restore the planet.
We have a unique opportunity to improve health for all and to tackle global inequality, if we act fast.
Latest work
Current Vacancy: Head of Development
This is a role for an experienced international NGO fundraiser who combines strong existing relationships in climate and/or global health philanthropy with the organisational instincts and operational discipline to build a development function largely from scratch.
Listen to our members share why they have joined the GCHA movement and how they are driving change.
Our network
Organisations
We are a network of 200+ health and development organisations
Million health workers
Number of health workers represented by our member & partner organisations
Countries
Our network spans every continent and 125+ countries
News and Events
Confronting Big-Oil with comedy: The backstory of “The Well-Oiled Plan”
Confronting Big-Oil with comedy – The backstory of “The Well-Oiled Plan”.
Second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: Why it is a pivotal moment
Governments, health leaders, and multilateral organisations will be gathering in Colombia for the Second WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health. This is a critical moment for global coordination. Policymakers must act now to strengthen health systems and eliminate fossil fuels to save lives, improve health, and reduce healthcare costs.
Context: At COP30, we must act to stop fossil fuels destroying our health
When delegates leave Belém, success will not be measured by the number of pages in the final declaration or the pledges made, but by the courage to act on what we already know: that fossil fuels are destroying health from cradle to grave. Anything less would be a betrayal of both science and humanity
Climate and Health Facts
The Climate and Us
Real stories of climate and health from around the world
The Climate and Us is a series of short branded films produced for the the Global Climate and Health Alliance by the BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions. Divided into three Chapters, the series takes you on a cinematic journey across the world to explore the many ways in which a changing climate is impacting people’s health and wellbeing.
