Presented By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center
Forum on "Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience"
Keynote speaker Renee Salas, MD (Harvard Medical School) "Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action"
Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php
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.
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
Schedule
11:00-11:45 am | Registration outside of Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education, Michigan Medicine
11:00-11:45 am | Lunch in Towsley Center Dining Room for registered guests
12:00-1:30 pm | Program in Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center (also will be live streamed)
1:30-2:00 pm | Reception in Towsley Center Dining Room
Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php
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.
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
Schedule
11:00-11:45 am | Registration outside of Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center for Continuing Medical Education, Michigan Medicine
11:00-11:45 am | Lunch in Towsley Center Dining Room for registered guests
12:00-1:30 pm | Program in Dow Auditorium, Towsley Center (also will be live streamed)
1:30-2:00 pm | Reception in Towsley Center Dining Room
Please register by going to http://mleead.umich.edu/Event_Climate_Change_and_Health_2020.php
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