NatCen granted £1.3m for Vietnam climate and health study

NatCen International, the global arm of NatCen, has received the grant for original research on the health impacts of climate change on precarious outdoor workers in urban megacities in Vietnam.

The project will investigate vulnerabilities and multiple health exposures of outdoors workers in urban areas in Vietnam, using multi-stakeholder collaboration, addressing fundamental knowledge gaps about the vulnerabilities of outdoor urban workers and helping Vietnamese policy makers to devise interventions.

The Wellcome Trust is supporting transdisciplinary teams to deliver short-term, high-impact projects, combining evidence generation with communications and/or public engagement, with funding prioritised for research that serves the expressed needs of at-risk populations and communities with high exposure and vulnerabilities to the health impacts of climate change.

Dr Anh Vu, research director at NatCen International and principal investigator for the project, said: “We are eager to begin building a new evidence base around the health impacts of climate change on precarious outdoor workers in Vietnam.

“I am delighted to collaborate with the University of Bristol and our partners based in Vietnam, Social Life Research Institute and Institute for Development and Community Health ‘LIGHT’ to conduct this new and critical research project.”