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Understanding loss due to climate change through the concept of solastalgia
Supervisor: Mark Tebboth (DEV)
Rita Issa is a Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholar at UEA as part of the Critical Decade programme. Her research focuses on understanding loss due to climate change through the concept of solastalgia.
Rita's experience is in the intersections of health, climate change, justice, and building community agency and capacity. She is a practicing NHS GP working at an innovative community practice in East London, and a humanitarian medic, having worked with MSF, WHO, Primary Care International, and as a medic aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise.
Rita comes to UEA from the UCL Institute for Global Health and Lancet Migration where she led the work stream on the intersections of climate change, migration and health. Alongside other academic outputs, she's co-editor of the 'Handbook of Refugee Health' (Taylor Francis), the upcoming text 'Health, Resistance and Activism' (OUP), and co-investigator for the Wellcome funded public engagement project 'Envisioning Environmental Equity'. Her humanitarian, medical and academic work has appeared in a number of media outlets, including as a columnist for the Independent, and on BBC news, Sky, Al Jazeera, and Novara Media.
Rita has co-founded a number of advocacy organisations and her contributions to the fields of climate change and health were recognised in the Lord Mayor's Sustainable City Awards as "London's Public Sector Individual Changemaker of the Year 2022".
Website: www.drritaissa.com