We are super excited to host our subreddit's first Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on July 16th from 3-7pm Eastern Time (EDT). Join us to ask your burning questions about how heat impacts health, what strategies you can use to stay cool, how you can support your community during extreme heat events, and much more. We'll have 3 experts (maybe 4) to share the latest research and nerd out with you on all things extreme heat.
The BeBrit project will culminate with a one-day Extreme Heat Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Event.
The aim of the event is to share knowledge, practical innovations and experiences, developments in research and think together about future planning and preparedness for extreme heat.
The objective of the 18th edition is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussions on our current state of knowledge of Mediterranean risks in a climate change context. Different aspects related to monitoring, assessment, diagnosis, prediction, and definition of weather extremes, wildfires, hydro-geological effects, impacts on natural resources, agriculture, health and society, as well as adaptation capacity and preservation strategies for natural and cultural heritage at risk, will be addressed with a multi-sectorial approach. This will be achieved by bringing together scientific experts in the fields of meteorology, hydrology, wildfires, geomorphology, sociology, engineering, cultural heritage conservation, and governmental or private risk management actors.
Planned deadlines
Abstract submission deadline: 3 May 2024
Notification of abstract acceptance: 31 May 2024
Letter of schedule (programme publication): 28 June 2024
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
Jul 11, 2024
New Mexico faces an unprecedented public health crisis as extreme heat is projected to break temperature records again this summer. Healthy Climate New Mexico is excited to host this virtual Summit to ensure that health professionals understand the health impacts of extreme heat and are prepared to take action to address this threat in their communities. The Summit will increase knowledge about the worsening health impacts of heat, including data, trends, and risks. Participants will learn how to reduce the harms associated with extreme heat to help reduce the risks of heat to their community, home, or workplace, especially for our most vulnerable populations. CEs available: CHW, CHES, and SW.
Interpretación simultánea en español disponible
The Extreme Heat Workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to assess and advance the state of knowledge on the mechanisms of concurrent, compounding, and record-breaking heat extremes; to identify community needs; and to develop an interdisciplinary framework for evaluating their risks on sectors including public health, energy, and agriculture, with a cross-cutting focus on climate justice.
Register to attend and/or present. Early career researchers may apply for travel support.
Early career researcher travel funds application: May 1, 2024
Abstract submission: May 15, 2024
Registration: June 15, 2024
University of Brighton, Brighton and Sussex Medical School & Center for Sustainable Healthcare
Jun 25, 2024
SHARE is a free online conference co-hosted by the University of Brighton School of Sport and Health Sciences, Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.
There will be keynote talks, oral presentations and posters around this year's theme of:
Fast-tracking resilient and environmentally sustainable health systems
Students, academics, researchers, clinical and estates colleagues from any discipline interested in sustainable healthcare are welcome to attend.
The FHF Global Summit will convene diverse stakeholders from the climate and health communities to build our collective knowledge, strengthen new and existing partnerships, and identify opportunities to move together from awareness and political will to action and impact. Learn more at www.fhfsummit.org.
WHO has recently released a new series of policy briefs to support strategic reflection among urban health decision-makers. Each brief focuses on a cross-cutting theme: generating and working with evidence; governance and financing; innovation; and partnerships and participation. Collectively, these represent the essential “means of implementation” that set the stage for a strategic approach to urban health.
This webinar will present the new series. Discussants from a range of domains will reflect on the value of strategic approaches to urban health and prospects for amplifying and scaling best practices. The event will also feature a call for case studies that illustrate strategic action for urban health at city or national level.
The training will focus on flood risk assessments and specific challenges for assessing flood risk in refugee and IDP camps; gauging long-term heat stress in refugee camps and the challenges with decision making surrounding heat risk; and monitoring drought effects on agricultural landscapes in refugee settings using Earth observations (EO) to explore the correlations between anomalies in crop productivity and weather-based factors.
