What impact is climate change having on global health? How can we create healthy and sustainable cities? And how can we learn from each other’s approaches to health – across the globe?
‘Healthy lives for all’ is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals, yet climate change and the pollution of air and water are threatening global health. This track will bring together experts from different parts of the world, who, alongside politicians, NGOs, and representatives from business and industry, will attempt to find new ways to combine global health and sustainable development.
Time: Thursday May 11 at 12.45-14.30
Auditorium: Samfundsmedicinsk
Climate change is probably the most important challenge of our time influencing health by changing agriculture production, changing habitats of wild animals and destroying critical infrastructure like water supply for instance by flooding. This track will explore the impact of climate change on global health and present solutions on how we may curb the effects on global health in order to create healthy and sustainable cities.
Chair:
Torben Sigsgaard, Professor, Aarhus University
Speakers:
Jens-Christian Svenning, Professor, Aarhus University
Global Health in context of the global environmental crisis
Mark Manary, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Sustainable development and nutritional health in the light of climate change
Peter Thorne, Professor, University of Iowa
Health impacts of climate change and possible solutions
Flash talks by:
Virginia Casigliani, MD, University of Pisa
Perception of services and barrier to retention in care for girls and young women in Beira, Mozambique
Frederik Seelig, PhD, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The Global Vector Hub - building capacity to prevent vector-borne disease outbreaks
Time: Friday May 12 at 10.30-12.15
Auditorium: Samfundsmedicinsk
‘Healthy lives for all’ is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals, yet climate change and the pollution of air and water are threatening global health. This track will bring together experts from different parts of the world, who, alongside politicians, NGOs, and representatives from business and industry, will attempt to find new ways to advance global health in a sustainable way.
Chair:
Sandy Tubeuf, Professor, Université catholique de Louvain
Speakers:
Olusoji Adeyi, President, Resilient Health Systems (virtual)
Transitioning global health: from neo-dependency to self-reliance and balanced partnerships
Pascal Grosse, PD, Charité Berlin
Decolonization of Global Health
Anders Nordström, Ambassador for Global Health, UN Policy Department
The political economy and reality of tackling Global Health inequities
Flash talks by:
Christian Schou, Head of Projects, Aarhus Water
Aarhus Vand – Development Towards Sustainability
Lars Bruun Larsen, Health Advisor, Danish Red Cross
NCD care in humanitarian settings financing
Tara Ballav Adhikari, Doctor, Aarhus University
Community-based management of non-communicable disease in Nepal