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Paris Agreement could help world avoid 57 hot days each year, study finds

Emmanuel Raju and Nick Baumgart from the Department of Public Health contribute to an important…

Planetary Health

Planetary Boundaries show rising risks and urgency to protect Earth’s life-support systems

The 2025 Planetary Health Check Report was launched earlier this week. Emmanuel Raju, Associate…

New paper: COVID-19: How do you self-isolate in a refugee camp?

Emmanuel Raju is the co-author of a new paper titled "COVID-19: How do you self-isolate in a refuge…

WEBINAR RECORDING

Full Recording: Creative and Reflexive Methodologies for Critical Disaster Research webinar

On June 24 2025, the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research hosted a webinar on Creative and…

Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave

COPE Director Emmanuel Raju, along with many of his peers, is a review author in a new report from…

Interview with Rico Kongsager

COPE interviews Rico Kongsager, Associate Professor at University College Copenhagen and member of…

Women and girls continue to bear disproportionate impacts of heatwaves in South Sudan that have become a constant threat

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health…

Interview with Nick Baumgart

COPE interviews Nick Baumgart, PhD fellow at the Global Health Section and member of the Copenhagen…

Climate change increased the likelihood of wildfire disaster in highly exposed Los Angeles area

Associate Professor Emmanuel Raju and PhD Fellow Nick Baumgart from COPE and the Global Health…

Urban encroachment – untangling drivers and dynamics of land-use transitions in ecologically sensitive areas

Manja Hoppe Andreasen, Associate Professor at KU discusses her project on urban encroachment in…

PhD and Post-Doc vacancies at the Global Health Section

The Global Health Section at the Department of Public Health is offering two a PhD and a Postdoc…

Interview with Olivier Rubin

COPE interviews Olivier Rubin, Professor of Disaster Research and member of the Copenhagen Center…