James Hospedales

EarthMedic and EarthNurse Foundation – lover of nature, an accomplished public heath physician, a person of faith, a father, grandfather, and woodworker, Dr Hospedales founded EarthMedic and EarthNurse to mobilise health professionals and others to address the climate and health crisis. He chairs the Defeat-NCD partnership executive committee, addressing NCDs in low-resource countries. He was inaugural Executive Director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), and coordinator chronic disease prevention and control in PAHO/WHO. A graduate of UWI and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health, Dr H has published more than 100 papers and reports.