Michael Davies-Venn

Graduate Student Scholar, Faculty of Health

Graduate Student Scholar

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Michael Davies-Venn is a policy analyst and communication professional. He holds MPP, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany, MA, University of Sheffield, UK. He was awarded BSc (Hons).

With assumptions on changes to global climate impacts on human health, Davies-Venn focus research on infectious and arboviruses disease etiology and epidemiology and global environmental governance. His interests include understanding links between disease phenomena emerging from environmental transformations induced by climate change – such as extreme drought and floods – and risks to population health. His study on global environmental politics introduces sociopolitical determinants of health on global environmental governing on Planetary Health including, health inequities, disease burden and population patterns and environmental and social causal factors in developing regions.

Using diverse methodologies, including systems thinking, research results contribute to identifying recommendations for transnational adaption policies for disease prevention, improving health system infrastructure, reducing global public health inequities and risks through vector control and prevention, and energy transition.

He is the recipient of numerous awards from North American and European institutions, was recently Junior Fellow in Ethics of the Anthropocene, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, and member of the Earth System Governance network. Previously he was adjunct communication professor, consultant with the United Nations and communication director with a Canadian provincial political party.

Having lived and worked in several countries between continents, he considers himself a cosmopolitan presently living Berlin, Germany.

Research Keywords

climate change health impacts; global public health; climatic hazards; developing regions; pathogenic diseases and transmission

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