In a conversation with Luciana Julião, environment editor at The Conversation Brasil, during COP30 in Belém, Fiocruz researcher and environmental health specialist Sandra Hacon explained why the integration of climate, environment and health has guided her research for two decades. Hacon has a background in biology and ecology and is a member of the Amazon Scientific Panel (Painel Científico da Amazônia), the Climate Network of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (Rede Clima), and the National School of Public Health (ENSP). Since 2005, she has been conducting studies on the impacts of climate change on health and the social determinants that amplify these effects, analysing how deforestation, ecological changes and inequalities structure the circulation of viruses, vectors and other biological agents in different territories. Check out an excerpt from the conversation:
