Ana De Menezes
Academics & Education
Also working within:
Policy Experts
Also working within:
Policy Experts
Based: London
Ana holds an MSc Environmental Science from the University of East Anglia and an MSc Development Studies from the University of Antwerp. Prior to joining the LSE, she worked as a research assistant at UN-Habitat and as a trainee Programme Assistant at UNESCO.
Ana’s research focuses on health-related impacts of climate change. She is especially interested in the impact of mosquito-borne diseases on labour productivity. She received the 2018 LSE-IDB Postgraduate Essay Prize for her paper on climatic and non-climatic determinants of vector-borne diseases under climate change scenarios in Brazil.
“Mitigation policy is imperative to avoid the exacerbation of negative health impacts of a changing climate, particularly of infectious diseases transmitted by mosquitoes such as Malaria, Zika and Dengue Fever. It has also the potential of reducing health inequities among disadvantaged groups of the population and providing health co-benefits, as the reduction of respiratory diseases associated with air pollution.”