Episode 105: Heat, Health, and Humanitarian Crises: How Climate Shapes Global Disease

RCP Medicine Podcast

RCP Medicine Podcast
Episode 105: Heat, Health, and Humanitarian Crises: How Climate Shapes Global Disease
May 06, 2026

In this episode of the RCP Medicine Podcast, Dr Aula Abbara, consultant in infectious diseases and internal medicine at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and an infectious diseases and malaria advisor to MSF Amsterdam, joins Dr Bryony Alderman, palliative medicine consultant and RCP Sustainability Education Fellow. Together, they explore how climate change is reshaping global health, with a particular focus on infectious diseases, health inequalities, forced displacement, and the increasingly complex connections between environment, conflict, and disease transmission.

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