UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
| Formation | 2016 |
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| Purpose | Climate change mitigation to improve public health |
| Headquarters | BMJ Publishing Group, Tavistock Square |
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Region served | UK |
| Fields | Healthcare |
| Membership | Over 650,000 people (2020) |
Chair of the Alliance | Richard Smith |
Director | Elaine Mulcahy |
| Website | ukhealthalliance |
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC), also referred to as the Alliance, is an organisation in the United Kingdom of several major health institutions that give it a collective membership of over 650,000 people including doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, with the aim to better public health by combatting climate change. It was founded in 2016 and its founding members include the British Medical Journal (BMJ), the British Medical Association (BMA), The Lancet, the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).
Its activities have included producing reports pertinent to air pollution, coal phase-out and carbon footprints. "A Breath of Fresh Air" (2016), proposes a series of actions to clean up the air and tackle climate change, and "All-Consuming: Building a Healthier Food System for People & Planet" (2020), makes a series of recommendations, including calling for campaigns to inform the public on diet and putting labels on food to show what impact that food has on the environment.
Since October 2019, former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal, Richard Smith is its chair.