The 28th U.N. Climate Climate Change Conference (COP) currently meeting in Dubai until Dec. 12, is being hailed as the “Health COP”––promising to bring the climate and health agenda into the mainstream. Yet we are seeing almost no direct focus on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which is a critical gap because climate change creates barriers to fulfilling those rights.
Author: Jessie Pinchoff
Jessie Pinchoff is an associate at the Population Council and also serves as co-lead of the Council’s Population, Environmental Risks, and the Climate Crisis (PERCC) initiative . In this role, she provides strategic input to climate change–related work across Council offices and guides the Council’s work in examining critical intersections between climate and health. Pinchoff has a PhD in global disease epidemiology and control from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. You can find more of her work here.