Professor Dame Parveen Kumar GBE
Parveen is an ambassador to the UKHACC and an Emerita Professor of Medicine and education at Barts and the London School of Medicine Queen Mary University of London. She has a long-standing interest in Global health and its education in medical schools. She helped set up the Global Health programme at the Royal Society of Medicine with B Sethia, when she was president there. She edited a book written by 127 medical students from around the world on the Essentials of Global Health and writes the chapter on Planetary health in Kumar and Clark’s Clinical medicine which she started. She has held many other national roles.
Fiona Godlee
Fiona is an ambassador to the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, Trustee to The Eden Project and the former Editor in chief of the British Medical Journal. She has written and lectured on a broad range of issues, including health and the environment, the ethics of academic publishing, evidence based medicine, access to clinical trial data, research integrity, open access publishing, patient partnership, conflict of interest, and overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
Robin Stott
Robin is a founder member and now ambassador of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. Robin is a retired consultant physician, site dean and medical director of Lewisham university hospital. He has a lifetime interest in developing more socially and economically equal societies, which when co-created by people and legislators, and developed within environmental limits, are optimal precursors for good health. In this context he has been chair of MEDACT, chair of the international committee of physicians for prevention on nuclear war, chair of Greenwich CND, active in movements to liberate the erstwhile colonies, and an enthusiastic supporter of XR.
David Pencheon
David Pencheon is a UK trained doctor and was the founder Director of the Sustainable Development Unit [SDU]* for NHS England and Public Health England, established in 2007 – which has now grown intro the Greener NHS. He is now an Honorary Professor and an Associate at the Medical and Health School at the University of Exeter, UK, and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Commissioner on the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission. He has held appointments at University College London (UCL), and is a visiting Professor at the Centre for Environment and Sustainability (CES) at the University of Surrey, and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University in Melbourne. and at Notre Dame University in Sydney.
Richard Smith
Richard Smith has been concerned about and writing on the climate and environmental crisis since the early 90s. It’s deeply sobering to think that had the world taken the issue seriously then our current predicament could have been avoided. He was editor of the BMJ and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group, and for six years in the 80s a television doctor. After leaving the BMJ he worked in global health and spent six years as chair of the board of icddr,b (formerly International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh). From 2019 to 2025 he was chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. Now he is chair of Patients Know Best (a company that gathers all patients’ medical and social care data and puts them under the control of the patients to empower and activate patients), cochair of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death 2.0, and a manic blogger.