Climate Change & Health: Resilience & Readiness
Date
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location
Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education
Cost
Free
Description
SAVE THE DATE for Climate Change & Health: Resilience & Readiness March 10 (Tues), 12:00-1:30 pm in Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education, U-M Health System and Michigan Medicine. (Register for event and lunch)
Our climate is our planet’s life support system. Climate change influences human health and disease in numerous ways, including impacts from increased extreme weather events, wildfire, decreased air quality, and illnesses transmitted by food, water, and disease carriers such as mosquitoes and ticks. As described in the Lancet Countdown report, some existing health threats will intensify and new health threats will emerge. Not everyone is equally at risk, and children are especially at risk. Preventive and adaptive actions are needed.
The keynote speaker is an emergency medicine physician who co-authored the U.S. portion of the Lancet Countdown report and Health and Care Delivery in the New England Journal of Medicine. A panel of experts will present solutions from a variety of other universities who are reducing their carbon footprint in response to the urgent public health need.
The keynote speaker is an emergency medicine physician who co-authored the U.S. portion of the Lancet Countdown report and Health and Care Delivery in the New England Journal of Medicine. A panel of experts will present solutions from a variety of other universities who are reducing their carbon footprint in response to the urgent public health need.
Welcome Joseph C. Kolars, MD, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, UM Medical School
Keynote Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action
Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and emergency medicine physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
A solutions discussion and forum will follow keynote address.
Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS, Clinical Instructor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School and emergency medicine physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
A solutions discussion and forum will follow keynote address.
Steering committee members
- Sue Anne Bell, PhD, FNP-BC, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
- Michael Craig, PhD, Assistant Professor, SEAS
- Trish Koman, PhD, MPP, Environmental Health Sciences Dept. and Multidisciplinary Design Program in the College of Engineering
- Jonathan Levine, PhD, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning, TCAUP
- Toby Lewis, MD, MPH, Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and Pediatric Pulmonary
- Marie O’Neill, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology and EHS, SPH
