“Climate Change and Health: Readiness and Resilience”

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 diseases 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 with a changing climate. Not everyone is equally at risk, and children are especially vulnerable. Preventive and adaptive actions are needed.

0:00 Welcome: Trish Koman, PhD

3:00 Introduction: Marie O’Neill, PhD

5:00 Opening Remarks: Joseph Kolars, MD

10:00 Keynote Speaker: Renee N. Salas, MD, MPH, MS
Dr. Salas is an emergency medicine physician who co-authored the U.S. portion of the Lancet Countdown report and “The Climate Crisis — 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. Dr. Salas will present the keynote address “Climate Action: Children’s Health Drives Need for Urgent Action”.

49:25 Solutions Discussion: Guy O. Williams, President and CEO, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Mike Garfield, Director, Ecology Center; Stephen Dolen, Executive Director, Logistics, Transportation and Parking, U-M

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