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  1. Institute for Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Emma L. Lawrance, Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Omnia El Omrani, Emma Lawrance, David Nabarro, Nienke Meinsma & Peter Howitt

  2. Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Emma L. Lawrance, Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Omnia El Omrani, Emma Lawrance, Friederike Otto & Neil Jennings

  3. Mental Health Innovations, London, UK

    Emma L. Lawrance

  4. Wellcome, London, UK

    Alessandro Massazza, Irini Pantelidou, Niall Boyce, Madeleine Thomson, Chloe Watson & Rachel Hore

  5. Ethnicity and Health Unit, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mala Rao

  6. School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Mala Rao

  7. Imperial Projects, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Darius Sakalauskas

  8. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dublin, Ireland

    Margot Curl

  9. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Oxford, UK

    Meghan Bailey

  10. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, New York, NY, USA

    Pablo Suarez

  11. Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

    Renate Meyer

  12. IFRC Reference Centre for Psychosocial Support, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Shona Whitton

  13. Planetary and Global Health Program, St Luke’s Medical Center College of Medicine-William H. Quasha Memorial (SLMCCM-WHQM), Quezon City, The Philippines

    Renzo R. Guinto & John Jamir Benzon Aruta

  14. De La Salle University, Manila, The Philippines

    John Jamir Benzon Aruta

  15. The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    Sandeep Maharaj

  16. Planetary Health Alliance, Boston, MA, USA

    Sandeep Maharaj

  17. The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

    Natalie Greaves

  18. Claretian University of Nigeria, Nekede, Nigeria

    Kenneth Yongabi Anchang

  19. Climate Mental Health Network, Washington, DC, USA

    Lian Zeitz & Sarah Newman

  20. Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA

    Britt Wray

  21. SustyVibes, Lagos, Nigeria

    Jennifer Uchendu, Hope Lekwa & Ayomide Olude

  22. Force of Nature, London, UK

    Sacha Wright

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Connecting Climate Minds Core Team

  • Imperial College London

    • Emma Lawrance
    • , Jessica Newberry Le Vay
    • , Omnia El Omrani
    • , David Nabarro
    • , Friederike Otto
    • , Neil Jennings
    • , Mala Rao
    • , Nienke Meinsma
    • , Peter Howitt
    •  & Darius Sakalauskas

  • Red Cross Red Crescent

    • Margot Curl
    • , Meghan Bailey
    • , Pablo Suarez
    • , Renate Meyer
    •  & Shona Whitton

  • Regional Community Development Team

    • Renzo R. Guinto
    • , John Jamir Benzon Aruta
    • , Sandeep Maharaj
    • , Natalie Greaves
    •  & Kenneth Yongabi Anchang

  • Lived Experience Working Group

    • Lian Zeitz
    • , Britt Wray
    • , Sarah Newman
    • , Jennifer Uchendu
    • , Hope Lekwa
    • , Ayomide Olude
    •  & Sacha Wright

  • Wellcome

    • Alessandro Massazza
    • , Irini Pantelidou
    • , Niall Boyce
    • , Madeleine Thomson
    • , Chloe Watson
    •  & Rachel Hore

Corresponding authors

Correspondence to Alessandro Massazza or Irini Pantelidou.

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A.M. and I.P. were employed by Wellcome, the funder of Connecting Climate Minds, at the time of writing. O.E.O., J.N.L.V., E.L. and all other Connecting Climate Minds authors, were the recipients of funding from Wellcome for the Connecting Climate Minds project.

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Lawrance, E.L., Massazza, A., Pantelidou, I. et al. Connecting Climate Minds: a shared vision for the climate change and mental health field. Nat. Mental Health 2, 121–125 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00196-9

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