Medicine and the Earth’s Future: Our choice Matthew Taylor
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Did you know that the health sector is responsible for up to five per cent of global net CO2 emissions? Matthew Taylor, Director of York Health Economics Consortium, explains how global decision makers must deal with the challenge of trading off the benefits of healthcare against the harms.
Join Matthew for an overview of current methods for measuring the environmental harm caused by medicines and for a discussion around the public’s willingness to trade off their own health in order to save the planet.
About the speaker
Dr Matthew Taylor is the Director of York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC). He has a PhD in quality of life measurement and an MSc in Health Economics from the University of York. He was Scientific Lead for NICE’s Economic and Methodological Unit, an Expert Adviser for the NICE Centre for Guidelines and is a former member of NICE’s Public Health Advisory Committee. Matthew is on the editorial board for Global Health Economics and Sustainability (GHES), and was formerly on the editorial board of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH). He is a Trustee for OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity.
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