Description
This session kicked-off the Climate Change and Health Forum, the second phase of the Child Health Task Force’s (CHTF) successful 2022-23 webinar series on climate change and children’s health.
UNICEF’s new report, ‘A Threat to Progress: Confronting the Effects of Climate Change on Child Health and Well-being’, compiles selected existing evidence from a range of academic sources on the impacts of climate change on child health and wellbeing and presents policy recommendations for action by policymakers. This forum session supported both dissemination of the topline findings and recommendations for how to protect children from climate-related adverse health impacts, as well as enabling a dialogue amongst collaborators and participants on how the climate and health community can work together to empower strong and urgent action. This report was produced with the technical support of Karolinska Instituet.
This session was jointly hosted by the Children’s Environmental Health (CEH) Collaborative and CHTF, in collaboration with Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Global Communities, Save the Children, the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA), Karolinska Instituet (KI), and UNICEF.
Presenters and Contributors
- Abheet Solomon, Senior Adviser, UNICEF
- Dr. Tobias Alfven, Professor, Karolinska Instituet
- Giulia Gasparri, Technical Officer, PMNCH
- Dr. Hayalnesh Tarekegn (Bissie), Advisor, Climate Change and Health, Department of Global Health, Save the Children
- Dr. Jeni Miller, Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance
- Cara Endyke-Doran, Sr. Director, Health, WASH, and Nutrition, Global Communities
