Global health heavyweights team up for climate, disease funding

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LONDON - Three of the biggest global health funders have joined forces for the first time in a $300 million partnership aimed at tackling the linked impacts of climate change, malnutrition, and infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance.

For example, COVID-19 showed that obesity can be a risk factor for the severity of some infectious diseases, while extreme weather events linked to climate change can cause food insecurity, leaving undernourished children even more vulnerable to killer diseases such as measles and cholera. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has a controlling interest in the drugmaker Novo Nordisk , whose blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy has brought in billions for the foundation since its launch in 2021.

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