Interview with Professor Colin Butler

Reposted with permission from MSc Global Health Blog of the University of Copenhagen

By Jack Fisher

During the IARU Sustainability Science Congress 2014, I was able to steal a few minutes of the talented and tactful Professor Colin Butler. After initially being contacted via twitter, and attending his afternoon plenary session, Professor Butler paints an interesting and versatile portrait of his Global Health career to date, along with discussing his interests in climate health science and his new collaboration Health-Earth (H-Earth)

https://soundcloud.com/mscgh-blog/interview-with-professor-colin-butler

Read more from Professor Colin Butler's on his blog named 'Global Health Musings'

Climate Health Science - Reframe or Relinquish

‘The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.’ - Professor Colin Butler referring to the popular Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani’s quote in a 2005 New York Times article named 'The Breaking Point’. 

As scientists within Global Health we often focus on health related climate change challenges by identifying the problems facing populations, but often with little concrete solutions to offer. Unfortunately during the first afternoon of the IARU Sustainable Solutions 2014 conference within the health session titled ‘Elucidating sustainability-health interactions’, played to the same tune of negatively framed solutions.

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