Anand Bhopal is a researcher in researcher in Global Health and Climate-Resilient Health Systems at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and an affiliate researcher at the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting (BCEPS), 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 inequality within and between countries. 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. He is a Commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare (forthcoming, 2026) and works on the secretariat of the Lancet Regional Health Europe Commission on Climate Change, Migration, Displacement and Health. 

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 consultant at the WHO Migration and Health unit. He was based at Harvard University as a participant on the Takemi Program in International Health from September 2022 to May 2023.

Selected publications from PhD period (for updated list see ‪Anand Bhopal‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬):

• 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. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2025; 14 (1), 1-12. 
• 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)