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Water, Climate and Health

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  • Free
  • Discussion
  • British Sign Language interpreted
  • Speech-to-text
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Claudia Hammond, Photo: Ezster Bonyi. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

What you’ll do

Join Claudia Hammond and a panel of guests from different areas of expertise to discuss the latest evidence on the relationship between water, climate change and health, inspired by our upcoming 'Thirst' exhibition. We'll be exploring themes of water access, overconsumption and waste management.

Claudia will present the programme and interview the speakers. Then, the audience will have the chance to ask questions. You can participate or just listen.

The event will be recorded and edited into a programme to be broadcast on the BBC World Service as part of ‘The Evidence’ series. After broadcast, this will be available on the BBC website.

Dates

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Location

We’ll be in the Reading Room on level 2. You can walk up the spiral staircase to the Reading Room door, or take the lift up and then head left from the Library Desk.

Place not guaranteed

Booking a ticket for a free, in-person event does not guarantee you a place. You should aim to arrive 15 minutes before the event is scheduled to start to claim your place. If you do not arrive on time, your place may be given to someone on the waiting list.

Waiting list

If this event is fully booked, you may still be able to attend. We will operate a waiting list, which opens 30 minutes before this event starts. Arrive early, and we’ll give you a numbered ticket. If there are any unfilled places just before the start time, we will invite you to enter in order of ticket number.

British Sign Language interpreted

This event will have British Sign Language interpretation.

Speech-to-text

This event will be live-transcribed. The captions will be displayed on a screen in-venue.

For more information, please visit our Accessibility page. If you have any queries about accessibility, please email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call

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The BBC World Service is the world’s largest international broadcaster. It broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world.

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Claudia Hammond

Presenter

Claudia Hammond is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and psychology lecturer. She is the presenter of ‘All in the Mind’ and ‘Mind Changers’ on BBC Radio 4, and ‘The Evidence’ and ‘Health Check’ on the BBC World Service.

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Anthony Acciavatti

Speaker

Anthony Acciavatti works at the intersection of landscape and the history of science and technology. He is the author of the award-winning 'Ganges Water Machine: Designing New India’s Ancient River', which is based on walking and boating across the river basin for nearly a decade. In 2023, the Victoria and Albert Museum acquired the instruments and drawings he made of the basin for the permanent collection. Acciavatti is the inaugural Diana Balmori Assistant Professor at Yale University and leads Ganges Lab at Collaborative Earth.

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Yael Velleman

Speaker

Yael Velleman is a public health and development policy specialist with a passion for a clean and healthy environment free of infectious disease. She has worked with Unlimit Health since 2018.

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Neil Turner

Speaker

Neil Turner is Professor of Nephrology emeritus at the University of Edinburgh.