James Irlam is a Senior Lecturer in the Primary Health Care Directorate at the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences. He is an associate of the of Environmental Health Division in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine and a course convener on the MPH Environmental Health track. He is a graduate of the MPhil (Epidemiology) and the MSc (Climate Change and Development) programmes at UCT. James is a teacher, researcher and advocate for mitigating climate change and improving public health by means of healthy energy and lifestyle choices.