Amy Leach

📢 NEW: Governments continue to funnel billions into fossil fuel-prolonging projects - while clean air gets just 1% of #GlobalDev finance.

Explore the findings of our report, The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2025, out today 👉 bit.ly/4gXEAjm

Home - Breathe Cities Breathe Cities is an ambitious initiative supporting cities around the world to cut their air pollution and climate emissions.

I’m also thrilled to be back focusing on cities as labs of innovation and action as part of the #BreatheCities initiative!

breathecities.org

The role brings together my longstanding focus on the intersection between climate and health, the last few years working with organisations shaping the future of philanthropy, and a passion for how smart, thoughtful comms can humanise issues rooted in systems change.

I’m excited to have joined @cleanairfund.bsky.social as Head of Strategic Communications.

We’re a global philanthropic organisation working with governments, funders, businesses and campaigners to ensure everyone, everywhere breathes clean air.

A big thanks to the team for the warm welcome.

BBers are some of the best in the biz. Thanks for being magic to work with 💫.

More soon on what’s next 👀.

A few weeks back I wrapped an incredible couple of years with BB Partners.

It’s taken me everywhere from Nairobi to Ottawa, working across the future of global health, how climate change is impacting diseases like Malaria and NTDs, the global rollback in gender rights, & AI ethics.

How audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era This chapter explores audience attitudes towards news personalisation and public interest in different types of AI-driven news personalisation.

Here are some key findings about how audiences think about news personalisation in the AI era from my chapter in the @reutersinstitute.bsky.social Digital News Report 2025. 🧵 #DNR25

This new app wants to help prose-loving journalists make the leap into vertical video Sophiana wants to turn your semicolon-laden story into something your nephew won't swipe past.

+ enjoyed reading this write up from @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/this...

This is really cool from @sophiasgaler.bsky.social - a new app that helps you quickly translate longform work into snappy video content.

I just tried it out and it was simple and intuitive to use.

The title of a new ODI Global publication - Gender equality and the climate crisis: where do international commitments stand?

2025 is key to aligning global commitments on gender equality and climate action.

New research sets the first baseline for how the G7, G20 & UNFCCC address the gender-climate nexus, to collectively track progress & pushback in the face of rising backlash & climate delay tactics: buff.ly/pyRJCe1 🔖

Over the last year I’ve had the privilege of contributing to @theguardian.com’s Secure Messaging feature alongside my incredible colleagues. Launched today, Secure Messaging is a new way for whistleblowers to communicate anonymously with journalists within the Guardian news app.

Image by Anwar Sadat Swaka. A female doctor attends to a young patient lying on a hospital bed, assisted by two male doctors, in a small brightly painted pink clinic room in Kibera, Kenya. Smiles and teamwork reflect the promise of gender equality in healthcare, highlighting the aspirations of Kenya’s two-thirds gender rule, which aims to combat gender-based discrimination and promote balanced representation across society.

Just out in The Lancet: “Gender and #globalhealth: going, going but not gone”: bit.ly/42pk301

Led by our Co-CEOs Prof Sarah Hawkes & Prof Kent Buse, this powerful piece highlights the urgent need for the recent Lancet Commission and its recommendations for collective action.

#GenderJustice

Achieving gender justice for global health equity: the Lancet Commission on gender and global health Achieving gender justice in global health—which we define as encompassing the realisation of universal rights in relation to health equity and gender equality, while also addressing the drivers of gen...

🌍✨ The pursuit of #GenderJustice in global health is not simply an aspiration—it’s a necessity for 📈 health outcomes & addressing inequities.

Explore the intricate relationship between gender & health, obstacles to progress & key recommendations in a new Lancet Commission ➡️ hubs.li/Q03g3_-n0

Seized, settled, let: how Airbnb and Booking.com help Israelis make money from stolen Palestinian land As Israel deploys tanks in the West Bank for the first time in 20 years, we reveal how two of the world’s biggest travel companies are helping settlers commercialise stolen land

Since last summer I’ve been working with brilliant colleagues at the Guardian on an investigation into how two of the world’s biggest tourism companies, Airbnb and Booking.com, are helping Israeli settlers profit from stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank.
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Great starter pack on health (with a mostly UK focus)

Thanks so much for setting this up! I'd love to be added - I advise philanthropies, charities and businesses on comms, with a strong focus on storytelling around gender and anti-rights

We must fund grassroot feminist groups to withstand Trump setback | Context After Trump’s victory, grassroot groups will redouble their efforts to protect women’s rights but they need resources and funds

After Trump’s victory, grassroot groups in countries across the world are redoubling their efforts to protect women’s rights.

To do so they need more resources and funds.

Read the full piece from the Equality Fund's Jess Tomlin⬇️
www.context.news/money-power-...

V much a work in progress, but I've put together a starter pack of feature writers and long form journalists working in the UK

go.bsky.app/2t74cQ8

Trump, health, science, and the next 4 years Donald Trump's decisive re-election as US President on Nov 5 puts many aspects of health and science in a deeply concerning position. Although there is broader alarm about his openly authoritarian int...

“It will be no easy task, requiring a clear-eyed sense of pragmatism, a steadfast belief in the value of scientific principles, and a good deal of courage.”

The Lancet’s latest Editorial: Trump, health, science, and the next 4 years ⤵️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A visual depiction of the FemFestival line up, a version of which can be accessed on the link in the message.

Looking forward to #FemFestival today! This year's theme is Taking Back Our Power, with some great speakers exploring intersectionality and reclaiming our voices. In these early days of Bluesky I've only found one speaker to tag: Hi @amyleach.bsky.social
Join us! ww2.emma-live.com/femfestival2...

Thanks so much for making this Caroline! I advise philanthropists on strat comms 😊

There didn't seem to be a Starter Pack about philanthropy, so I made one! Let me know who else should be on it :-)

This is people doing philanthropy, studying it, writing about it, advising on it, creating/ collating data to aid it.

go.bsky.app/L8rNxLG