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Experts agree that warming temperatures threaten to worsen conditions that affect public health: pest-driven illness, respiratory conditions, lack of safe drinking water, food shortages and heat-related deaths. Regions around the world already are seeing the health impacts of climate change and are certain to see more, even under the most optimistic greenhouse gas reduction scenarios. Yet, there are health-oriented policies and actions which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, respond to climate impacts, implement adaptation strategies and provide important health co-benefits. On this panel, speakers will review climate change health risks and discuss the opportunities to respond in ways that promote community resilience, health and local and global equity.

Chair

Bernard Mujasi
District, Uganda

Moderator

Dr. Howard Frumkin
Director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Speakers

[Speaker]Dr. Kristie L. Ebi
Consultant at ESS, LLC

[Speaker]Dr. Kirk Smith
Director of Global Health and Environment Program and Professor of Global Environmental Health at the University of California, Berkeley

[Speaker]Dr. Gina Solomon
Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council

[Speaker]Dr. Kristie L. Ebi
Consultant at ESS, LLC

[Speaker]Dr. Paul Wilkinson
Consultant at ESS, LLC

[Speaker]Reader of Environmental Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine-Centre for Global Change and Health, University of London