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Anand Bhopal is a researcher in researcher in Global Health and Climate-Resilient Health Systems at the and an affiliate researcher at the , University of Bergen. He is a medical doctor and holds a Masters degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health from University College London and a PhD (2019-2024) from BCEPS.

His PhD project explored the intersection of priority setting, climate change and healthcare decarbonisation with a focus on inequality within and between countries. The project combined theoretical approaches exploring the integration of carbon emissions into healthcare priority setting and qualitative research interviews with health policy makers in countries which have committed to developing a zero carbon healthcare system under the . He is a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare (forthcoming, 2026) and works on the secretariat of the . 

Previous positions include working in the Medical Director’s Office of Public Health England (2017-2018) as a participant in the UK ,  and consultant at the WHO Migration and Health unit. He was based at Harvard University as a participant on the  from September 2022 to May 2023.

Selected publications from PhD period (for updated list see

• Bhopal A, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. . International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2025; 14 (1), 1-12. 
• Sue-Chue-Lam C, Bhopal A, Parker J, Xie EC. . BMJ Global Health. 2024 Dec 16;8(Suppl 3).
• Bhopal A. . The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2023; 14, 100267
• Bhopal A. . Nature Medicine, 2023, 1-7-
• Bhopal A, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2022; 115 (9), 337-340
• Sharma S, Bressler RD, Bhopal A, Norheim OF. . 2022; PloS one 17 (8), e0271550
• Bhopal A. & Norheim OF. BMJ, 2021, Oct.
• Bhopal A. . Ethics, Policy & Environment. 2021, Jun
• Bhopal A, Medhim H, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. World Medical & Health Policy. 2021, May.

Setting Health Priorities in a Warming Climate (Climate Action Accelerator, Harvard University) 

Harvard University  seed funding grant to explore pathways to low-carbon, high-quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. The project will use priority setting tools to model the carbon footprint of healthcare services and interventions along different health investment trajectories.

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