Annual Review 2012: Challenge 5 - Connecting environment, nutrition and health

Global health is under serious threat from the interlinked issues of access to nutrition, food security and climate change. We foster a multidisciplinary approach to address these problems.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities, and in this year's ‘Annual Review’, we highlight the work of a long-term study into the health effects of urban migration in India. In addition, we cover research into modelling the long-term consequences of environmental change on species populations, hear from Sir David Attenborough about the challenges of an ever-growing human population, describe field trials of a new approach to controlling the flies that transmit leishmaniasis, and look at an ambitious art project in one of the most disadvantaged areas of Mumbai.

Further resources

Here are links to information relating to each of this year's 'Annual Review' stories in challenge 5:

Urbanisation and health (page 37)

Modelling population change (page 38)

Man of the (natural) world (page 39)

Sex pheromones in the city (page 39)

Art and health in the slums (page 39)

Image: Illustration of an Indian city. Credit: Bret Syfert