Climate change adversely affects human health worldwide through multiple direct and indirect pathways. Responding to these effects requires connected strategies for mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions) and adaptation (adjusting to what cannot be avoided).

In this webinar, the InterAmerican Network of Academies of Sciences (IANAS) will present and discuss its new report “Taking action against climate change will benefit health and advance health equity in the Americas”.

This report focuses on the ways in which climate change is affecting human health throughout the Americas. How to tackle some of these effects will be the topic for discussion of a panel of experts from the region, including scientists and policy-makers.

This webinar is part of a series of four webinars in which InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and its regional networks in Africa (NASAC), Asia (AASSA) and the Americas (IANAS), the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) will launch their reports on tackling the effects of Climate Change on Health. The reports are the outcome of a three-year collaborative global project.

The webinar was designed to inform researchers, policy-makers and the interested public in the respective regions about effects on climate change on health and to discuss options for tackling these challenges.

Information on the other webinars can be found here: https://www.interacademies.org/news/reports-climate-change-and-health-af....

Moderator:

Jeremy N. McNeil is Distinguished University Professor and the Helen I Battle Professor of Chemical Ecology in Biology at Western

Panelists:

Kristie L. Ebi, Ph.D., MPH, Professor, Center for Health and the Global Environment (CHanGE), University of Washington

Martin Forde, Professor, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, St. George’s University, Grenada, W.I.

Andrew Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Chair Rockefeller Lancet Commission on Planetary Health 2014-15, currently co-chair Lancet Pathfinder Commission, co-author 'Planetary Health'

Sherilee Harper, Canada Research Chair in Climate Change and Health, School of Public Health, University of Alberta

Inez Shiwak, Nunatsiavut Inuit, Community-based Researcher

Charlie Flowers, Nunatsiavut Inuit, Community-based Researcher