Health impacts of planetary change, swelling cities: New assignment for UN think tank in Malaysia

(Terry Collins Assoc) Under a new mandate, UN University's Malaysia-based International Institute for Global Health will advance integrative thinking about the health of people and planetary systems. It will advance insight into the health risks of global change -- symptomized by climate change, urbanization, biodiversity loss -- and the co-benefits for health of environmental action and smart urban development.A new study in Uganda, for example, shows under-18s most vulnerable to cholera, typho...