The UK Health Security Agency’s (UKHSA) has issued its ten-year science strategy, setting out how UKHSA’s science can save more lives and use its scientific capabilities – including genomics, vaccine evaluation, surveillance, data science, diagnostics and toxicology – to prepare for future health security hazards.

In order to address challenges, a new Centre for Climate and Health Security, including delivering a five-year assessment report on the Health Effects of Climate Change, has been developed.

Announced a few months ago, the Centre acknowledges that the changing climate is a growing health security concern. UK deaths from heat alone will triple by 2050, with the hot summers simply becoming “normal” summers.

More widely, across the world climate change poses one of the greatest health security threats, potentially impacting the air, the quality and availability of our food and water, the risk of a pandemic and wider impacts on mental health and wellbeing.

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