Dagboek van een kinderarts zonder grenzen takes you to hospitals all over the world. Personal experiences and stories from paediatrician Daan Van Brusselen make you reflect on the deep connection between the health of the earth and that of its youngest inhabitants.

In Congo, abnormalities are appearing in children born near the mines where metals are extracted for our car batteries. In Ecuador, vampire bats are spreading rabies due to deforestation.

But here too, air pollution is damaging children's lungs and the link between certain pesticides and cancer is becoming clearer. Children are the canaries in the coal mine, the antennae of our planet. But can they also spur us into action? And how?

Paediatrician and infectious disease specialist Daan Van Brusselen (ZAS and UAntwerp) specialised in tropical diseases and wrote a PhD thesis on the environment and health. He worked for many years in the Global South, where he saw with his own eyes how environmental pollution leaves a deep mark from the very first breath. He is currently a doctor and researcher in Belgium. Meanwhile, he remains actively involved in projects in the South.

This book presentation is organised by publisher Borgerhoff & Lamberigts.