Anand Bhopal is a Research Fellow at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), within the Department for Global Health and Primary Care and an affiliate researcher at the Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET) at the University of Bergen. He is a medical doctor and holds a Masters degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Health from University College London and a PhD (2019-2024) from BCEPS.

His PhD project explored the intersection of priority setting, climate change and healthcare decarbonisation with a focus on low- and middle-income country perspectives. The project combined theoretical approaches exploring the integration of carbon emissions into healthcare priority setting and qualitative research interviews with health policy makers in countries which have committed to developing a zero carbon healthcare system under the WHO COP26 Health Programme. 

Previous positions include working in the Medical Director’s Office of Public Health England (2017-2018) as a participant in the UK National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellowship Scheme and junior researcher at the Unit for Migration Health at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health. He was based at Harvard University as a participant on the Takemi Program in International Health from September 2022 to May 2023.

He is currently working on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare and as a consultant for the World Health Organisation Migration and Health Unit. 

 

Academic article

• Sharma, Siddhanth; Bhopal, Anand ; Chang, Angela Y (2025). Setting priorities for climate and health adaptation. (external link)
• Sharma, Siddhanth; Bressler, R. Daniel; Bhopal, Anand et al. (2022). The global temperature-related mortality impact of earlier decarbonization for the Australian health sector and economy: A modelling study. (external link)
• Bhopal, Anand (2021). The Norwegian Oil Fund in a Warming World: What are the Interests of Future Generations?. (external link)
• Bhopal, Anand Singh; Mehdin, Haileselassie; Bærøe, Kristine et al. (2021). Climate change and health in Ethiopia: To what extent have the health dimensions of climate change been integrated into the Climate-Resilient Green Economy?. (external link)
• Bhopal, Anand Singh; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (2021). Priority setting and net zero healthcare: how much health can a tonne of carbon buy?. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Brendbekken, Audun; Bhopal, Anand (2024). Putting Kaftrio into perspective: a test case for fair and open priority setting. (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Bhopal, Anand (2024). "Should BCEPS work on climate change and health?". (external link)

Academic literature review

• Kumar, Bernadette. N; Bhopal, Anand ; Blanchet, Karl et al. (2024). Priority setting and migration health policies for European countries. (external link)

Short communication

• Bærøe, Kristine; Bhopal, Anand Singh; Gundersen, Torbjørn (2024). Towards an environmentally sensitive healthcare ethics: ten tasks and one model . (external link)
• AASHEIM, ERLEND T.; Bhopal, Anand ; O’Brien, Karen et al. (2023). Climate change and health: a 2-week course for medical students to inspire change. (external link)
• Abudayya, Abdallah; Abu Ghali, Khaled; Hargreaves, Sally et al. (2023). An urgent call to save and protect lives of vulnerable populations in the Gaza Strip. (external link)

Abstract

• Bhopal, Anand Singh; Norheim, Ole Frithjof (2021). How much health can a ton of carbon buy?. (external link)

Editorial

• Bhopal, Anand Singh; Shrivastava, Sofie Haugan (2021). Klimakrisen: Helsevesenet må ta ansvar. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected publications during PhD period:

• Bhopal A, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. Ambition With Uncertainty: Exploring Policy-Makers’ Perspectives on Pathways to Net Zero Healthcare. International Journal of Health Policy and Management [Forthcoming]
• Sue-Chue-Lam C, Bhopal A, Parker J, Xie EC. Net Zero is not enough: ratcheting ambition for sustainable health systems through Reduce and Support. BMJ Global Health. 2024 Dec 16;8(Suppl 3).
• Bhopal A. ‘Are you a researcher or an activist?’: Navigating tensions in climate change and health research. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 2023; 14, 100267
• Bhopal A. Fair pathways to net-zero healthcare. Nature Medicine, 2023, 1-7-
• Bhopal A, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. How do we decarbonise fairly? Emissions, inequities and the implications for net zero healthcare Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 2022; 115 (9), 337-340
• Sharma S, Bressler RD, Bhopal A, Norheim OF. The global temperature-related mortality impact of earlier decarbonization for the Australian health sector and economy: A modelling study. 2022; PloS one 17 (8), e0271550
• Bhopal A. & Norheim OF. Priority setting and net zero healthcare: how much health can a tonne of carbon buy? BMJ, 2021, Oct.
• Bhopal A. The Norwegian Oil Fund in a warming world: what are the interests of future generations?. Ethics, Policy & Environment. 2021, Jun
• Bhopal A, Medhim H, Bærøe K, Norheim OF. Climate change and health in Ethiopia: To what extent have the health dimensions of climate change been integrated into the Climate‐Resilient Green Economy. World Medical & Health Policy. 2021, May.

Setting Health Priorities in a Warming Climate (Climate Action Accelerator, Harvard University) 

Harvard University Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability seed funding grant to explore pathways to low-carbon, high-quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. The project will use priority setting tools to model the carbon footprint of healthcare services and interventions along different health investment trajectories.

Read more about the project: Climate Action Accelerator – Center for Health Decision Science (harvard.edu)