{"id":3943,"date":"2025-02-06T09:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/lydia-becker-institute\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2025-02-06T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T10:19:32","slug":"eco-immunology-journal-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/lydia-becker-institute\/2025\/02\/06\/eco-immunology-journal-article\/","title":{"rendered":"How (Eco)immunology can augment global EcoHealth programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; fullwidth=&#8221;on&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_module=&#8221;322&#8243;][et_pb_fullwidth_menu global_parent=&#8221;322&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; menu_id=&#8221;7&#8243; submenu_direction=&#8221;downwards&#8221; fullwidth_menu=&#8221;off&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; module_class=&#8221;main-navigation&#8221; \/][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;on&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#1d1d1d&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243; specialty_columns=&#8221;2&#8243;][et_pb_row_inner locked=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_column_inner type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; saved_specialty_column_type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; title=&#8221;on&#8221; meta=&#8221;on&#8221; author=&#8221;on&#8221; date=&#8221;on&#8221; categories=&#8221;on&#8221; comments=&#8221;on&#8221; featured_image=&#8221;on&#8221; featured_placement=&#8221;above&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_background=&#8221;off&#8221; locked=&#8221;on&#8221; parent_locked=&#8221;off&#8221; \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.6&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; parent_locked=&#8221;off&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The Becker&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.manchester.ac.uk\/lydia-becker-institute\/research\/eco-immunology-and-context-specific-immunology\/\">Eco-immunology branch<\/a>, in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablefutures.manchester.ac.uk\/\">Sustainable Futures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meri.manchester.ac.uk\/\">MERI<\/a> and The University of Edinburgh, has produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/discovimmunology\/article\/3\/1\/kyae015\/7822526\">journal article<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/discovimmunology\/article\/3\/1\/kyae015\/7822526\">Discovery Immunology<\/a> on the urgent need for an &#8216;EcoHealth&#8217; approach to help understand the challenges posed by climate change, pollution, and changes in land use on health, how it contributes to health inequalities and the role the emerging field of eco-immunology can play in accelerating EcoHealth programmes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eco-immunology explores how cumulative environmental conditions, which we face throughout our lives and our exposome, influence immune function and offers a powerful framework for studying immune health in the complex, multivariable world we live in.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendations in the article arose from the One Health Eco-immunology workshop held in June of 2023, which included sessions on eco-immunology, pollution and containments of health, and inequality and featured a keynote speech from Professor Andrea Graham of Princeton University.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can read the journal article in Discovery Immunology <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/discovimmunology\/article\/3\/1\/kyae015\/7822526\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article was written by Professor Sheena Cruickshank, Professor Kathryn Else, Professor Holly Shiels, Professor Susanne Shultz from The University of Manchester, and Dr Iris Mair from The University of Edinburgh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_post_nav _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.106&#8243; 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