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Hot Brain 4: climate change and neurological disorders: mechanisms
May 12
The Hot Brain 4 conference will focus on mechanisms of impacts of climate change on humans and on brain health in disease, and how we can use an understanding of mechanisms to promote adaptation.
The conference is jointly organised by UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The Lancet Neurology. It follows on from successful meetings in 2023-2025.
The aims of the Hot Brain meetings are :
- to raise awareness about the risks of climate change for the brain in health and disease
- to consider the consequences of the impacts of climate change for neurological diseases and healthcare
- to nurture global collaborative research, and to promote action against climate change and foster adaptation strategies.
Hot Brain 4 will focus on mechanisms of impacts of climate change on humans and on brain health in disease, and how we can use an understanding of mechanisms to promote adaptation.
Register via Eventbrite to attend either in person or online
In-person venue: Kennedy Lecture Theatre, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom
Conference Programme
View the draft programme here:
Poster exhibition and competition
We invite interested researchers and practitioners, who are intending to attend in person, to submit a poster that reflects work you are doing around climate change and sustainability in relation to health care or health research. Please indicate your intention to submit a poster when you register on Eventbrite, or contact the organiser (see further information below). You will need to submit an abstract for your poster or a draft poster to the organiser as a pdf document by 7 April 2026. A panel will view the posters and select 8. You will be notified by 15 April and the final version of the poster should be submitted by 27 April 2026 and will be displayed at the event on 12 May 2026. The best two posters will be awarded a certificate denoting the planting of twenty trees in the UCL Grove.
Links
- Climate change and brain health : Hot Brain 3 conference report in The Lancet Neurology, 2025
- ION news item on Hot Brain 3, 2025
- ION news item on Hot Brain 2, 2024
- Faculty sustainability blog post on Hot Brain conference
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