Stella Hartinger: exploring the intersection of climate change and human health

As a climate change researcher, director of the Lancet Countdown of Latin America on Health and Climate Change, and co-director of the Center for Latin-American Research on Climate Change and Health (CLIMA), Stella Hartinger is not just a biologist researcher. "I wanted to be a biologist. I went on a field trip to Manu, a national reserve in the Amazon, Peru. I loved the experience of being in the field … But I really liked the people. That was the first push towards that.", she says. Hartinger's love for science and research started with the school field trip and was set into stone when Dolly, the sheep, was cloned in 1996: "I love the field, but I also liked the controversial and ethical things that started to go around being able to clone another living being." She also has a clear goal concerning her career: "My life is not really inside a lab, that's not me.