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In a week where we have learned the news that the world leaders will descend on Northern Ireland for the G8 summit next June, Jonny Elliott, pictured here with QUB VC Sir Peter Gregson, is a student of the Public Health MSc class of 2012. He has been selected to represent UK Medical School Charity Medsin at the 
UNFCCC Climate Change negotiations in Qatar, in late November-early December. Medsin UK is a network of UK students interested in working to tackling local and global health inequalities. Its Activities, such as Healthy Planet, aim to educate students about the causes of - and solutions - to such health inequalities and to help them to act upon this knowledge. Whilst he is there, Jonny will deliver a number of presentations on the impacts of climate change on health and engage in diplomacy and advocacy work with the thousands of diplomats, negotiators and NGOs.
In 2012 he spent the summer interning at the National Cancer Institute in Washington D.C., working in the Centre for Global Health with the Washington Ireland Program. Jonny also volunteers with Tearfund and the International Justice Mission, and co-founded an anti-human trafficking collective. In light of his success, Jonny commented that “I am particularly interested global health, international relations and social justice - so I applied to represent Medsin at COP18 because I see climate change and health as being at the intersection of all three. It’s also a brilliant opportunity to represent Northern Ireland and QUB on the world stage and provides an unparalleled level of exposure to key influencers in society and I’m determined to make the most every second of it.”
Follow Jonny’s progress on the internet via healthyplanetuk.org, Facebook or twitter @HealthyPlanetUK.