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Navigating the Climate-Energy-Health Nexus: Perspective from the Global South

Dr. Renzo Guinto
Campaigner, Healthy Energy Initiative
Health Care Without Harm-Asia
Manila, Philippines

In 2009, the University College London and The Lancet called climate change “the biggest global health threat in the 21^st century.” In a country such as the Philippines, the health effects of climate change are not anymore a distant prospect, but already an existing reality.

While communities, including the health sector, are finding ways to build resilience in preparation for more anticipated extreme weather events and other climate-related impacts, implementation of mitigation strategies is lagging behind and an ambitious climate treaty remains elusive, bringing us closer to irreversible climate change. For instance, more coal-fired power plants are being built in Asia, despite the region’s high potential for renewable energy which could offer “health co-benefits” such as reduction in air pollution. Nonetheless, the health community can lead the way by example, and various health systems in Asia and around the world are adopting green practices in order to reduce their carbon footprint.

Indeed, the issues of climate, energy, and health are deeply intertwined and provide a new arena for global health research, education, and action – and this Philippine-Norwegian conversation hopes to serve as a launching pad for collaborations around climate justice, sustainable energy, and health equity.

Dr. Renzo Guinto is a physician based in the Philippines interested in global health, health systems, and social and environmental determinants of health.

Alongside other consultancies with WHO and Training for Health Equity Network, he currently works as Campaigner for Healthy Energy Initiative of Health Care Without Harm-Asia, focusing on the climate, energy, and health nexus. He is also the Director and Co-Founder of #Reimagine Global Health, a think-and-do tank for the world’s health based in Manila.

Previously, he was consultant on migration health for the International Organization for Migration and Philippine Department of Health. Renzo is a member of University of the Philippines Manila (UPM)’s Universal Health Care Study Group, WHO steering committee on social determinants of health and transformative health workforce education, and The Lancet-University of Oslo Youth Commission on Global Governance for Health.

During his medical student days, he served various positions in the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), including President of Asian Medical Student Association-Philippines, Liaison Officer to the WHO, Regional Coordinator for the Asia-Pacific, and Founding Coordinator of the IFMSA Global Health Equity Initiative. He is also one of the conveners of ASEAN Youth Dialogues, which aims to raise critical awareness about ASEAN economic integration among Southeast Asian youth.

A medical graduate of UPM under its accelerated seven-year Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine (INTARMED) program, Renzo also received training in global health and environmental sustainability from the East-West Center in Hawaii and Washington DC, Copenhagen School of Global Health, and University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa.

He was bestowed numerous accolades including “New Voices in Global Health” by the British medical journal The Lancet in Berlin, Germany in 2012, “Emerging Voices for Global Health” by the Institute of Tropical Medicine based in Antwerp, Belgium in 2014, and one of 25 “Emerging Leaders” by the World Heart Federation in Lima, Peru in 2015.