Sari Kovats is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Environments and Society at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Kovats is the co-lead for the Belmont-funded CHAMNHA (Climate, Heat and Maternal and Neonatal Health in Africa) research consortium. Sari has a PhD in environmental epidemiology and her research focusses on methods to assess the health impacts of climate change and develop evidence for adaptation options. Sari was co-lead for the chapter on Health and the Built Environment of the evidence report for the UK’s Third Climate Change Risk Assessment (2021) and Coordinating Lead Author for the multi-disciplinary chapter on Europe in the Fifth Assessment Report for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).