Dr Sari Kovats BA MSc PhD

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About Sari Kovats

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Background

Sari Kovats is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social and Environmental Research in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy. She has been actively researching the effects of weather and climate on human health for more than 15 years and has published widely on this topic; including 60 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 20 book chapters. Her particular areas of interest include health impact assessment of climate change and epidemiological studies of the effects of climate, weather and weather events in urban and rural populations.

Sari is currently Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Environmental Change and Health, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in partnership with Public Health England (PHE). It is an interdisciplinary research collaboration involving the European Centre for Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter, the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, and the Met Office. The HPRU will identify the emerging health effects of large scale changes in our environment and evaluate public health responses for addressing climate change.

Sari has been employed by LSHTM since 1994 when she joined the Dept of Epidemiology and Population Health to work as a research assistant on one of the first comprehensive books on climate change and health: McMichael AJ, Haines A, Slooff R, and Kovats S, eds. Climate Change and Human Health: an assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organization, the World Meteorological Organization, and the United Nations Environment Programme. Geneva, WHO, 1996 [WHO/EHG/96.7].  In 1997, Sari was promoted to Research Fellow and in 2003 to Lecturer, and in 2010 to Senior Lecturer. Sari has a Masters Degree in Social Policy from the SouthBank University in London and completed a part-time PhD in epidemiology in 2010 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Sari was the co-Coordinating Lead Author for Chapter 23 on Europe in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, published in 2014.

Affiliation

• Department of Social and Environmental Health Research

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Teaching

Sari teaches postgraduates in the field of environment, health and sustainable development. Sari organises the Module "Environment, Health and Sustainable Development" for the in-house MSc Public Health at LSHTM. She tutors students on the MSc Public Health course and supervises two PhD students. Sari has given lectures on climate and health to various academic institutions.

Research

Current Research Projects include

• NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Change and Health [2014-2019]
• IMPRESSIONS - the impacts of high end climate scenarios in Europe, funded by the European Commission [2013-2017]

 

 

 

 

 

• Selected publications

• Health Protection and Heatwaves: The need for Systematic Reviews.

  Kovats, S. ; Bickler, G. ;

  Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2012; 8:ED000044

• Global health and environmental change: linking research and policy

  Kovats, R.S.; Butler, C.D.

  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2012; 4(1):44-50

• Long-term effects of flooding on mortality in England and Wales, 1994-2005: controlled interrupted time-series analysis.

  Milojevic, A. ; Armstrong, B. ; Kovats, S. ; Butler, B. ; Hayes, E. ; Leonardi, G. ; Murray, V. ; Wilkinson, P. ;

  Environ Health, 2011; 10(1):11

• The effect of high temperatures on cause-specific mortality in England and Wales.

  Gasparrini, A.; Armstrong, B.; Kovats, S.; Wilkinson, P.;

  Occup Environ Med, 2011; 69(1):56-61

• Climate Change, Crop Yields, and Undernutrition: Development of a Model to Quantify the Impact of Climate Scenarios on Child Undernutrition.

  Lloyd, S.J.; Kovats, R.S.; Chalabi, Z.;

  Environ Health Perspect, 2011; 119(12):1817-23

• Heat Stress and Public Health: A Critical Review.

  Kovats, R.S.; Hajat, S.;

  Annu Rev Public Health, 2008; 29:41-55

• Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities

  Kovats, S.; Akhtar, R.

  Environment and Urbanization, 2008; 20(1):165-175

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