Mita Huq is a Research Associate working on projects across the Centre, focusing on promoting sustainable healthcare through strategic communications and supporting research on climate change and health systems.

Her work focuses on ensuring climate action advances equity and justice, particularly for communities most affected by climate change. Mita has experience working with global public-engagement initiatives that platform justice-based solutions to climate change, and specialises in realist methodologies, having conducted realist reviews and evaluations for international projects the address child health equity and refugee mental-health service integration.

Prior to joining CoSM, Mita led research and public engagement projects for the University College London and the University of Victoria. At UCL, she was a steering group committee member and working group lead for a realist review for the Lancet Commission on racism and child health. She also oversaw the implementation of a climate and health justice project, Envisioning Environmental Equity. For the University of Victoria, she and her team implemented a realist evaluation on mental health service integration for refugee communities in Canada.

She hopes to take her passion for structural change deeper into the climate and health world, where she aims to make methodological contributions to understanding how equity and justice can improve health-focused adaptation and mitigation strategies.