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The NUS-Cambridge Joint Symposium, initiated in 2012, serves as a platform for scientific exchange and ​collaboration between the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at NUS and the School of Clinical Medicine at ​Cambridge. This 11th edition celebrates the strong partnership, bringing together leading researchers and ​clinicians to share advancements, foster collaborations and explore innovative solutions to today’s ​challenges.

We are thrilled to announce that the very first Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum will be held in Singapore from January 7-10, 2025! This event will be a cornerstone for advancing our regional capacity and collaborative efforts toward addressing the challenges extreme heat poses to our region. While the Forum is a by invitation-only gathering of thought leaders and change-makers, we are calling for case studies that showcase cultural and traditional practices in Southeast Asia on heat management. Do use this chance to highlight community knowledge and bottom-up approaches, contributing to a unique perspective and discussion for SEA.

Join us for a funding webinar to present our latest climate and mental health funding opportunity, Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health. This award will fund projects to advance our understanding of how heat impacts anxiety, depression and psychosis in the most affected groups globally through biological, psychological and/or social mechanisms.

As heatwaves grow more frequent and severe due to climate change, their effects on human health are becoming increasingly alarming. This event invites you to engage in a vital discussion on how extreme heat is impacting our bodies, communities, and healthcare systems. Through this discussion, we will explore the science behind heatwaves and their growing intensity, the risks posed to public health—particularly for vulnerable groups—and the broader implications for society as global temperatures continue to rise.

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.          

The UN Secretary General recently released a call to action on extreme heat, declaring that “the world must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures.” To rise to the challenge, major gaps must be addressed in public health, medicine, technology, climatology, and risk analysis. We will hear from local and global policymakers about the tools most urgently needed to manage risk and prevent deaths from extreme heat. Then, we will hear from innovators collaborating to accelerate solutions. The event will be moderated by Jeff Goodell, author of New York Times best seller The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. Project HEATWAVE is an interdisciplinary, international effort housed at NYU Langone School of Medicine to rapidly build a framework and set of tools for projecting, analyzing, and managing responses to extreme heat for populations. Led by distinguished public health expert Anna Bershteyn, Project HEATWAVE includes multiple institutional partners and senior experts from a range of disciplines.

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.

Who is the event for?

• Federal, regional and city government and officials responsible for climate change, adaptation, resilience, environment, urban planning etc;
• Anyone who is working in a sector that is affected by extreme heat or could be in the future e.g. public health, health and social care, transport, water, emergency services (fire, ambulance, search and rescue), buildings and architecture, planning, infrastructure, agriculture, trade unions, tourism)
• Anyone researching extreme heat e.g. academics, consultants

Please note: This is an in-person event in Brussels and places are strictly limited. Please register your interest in attending. Then we will let you know if a place is available or if you are on the waiting list.

Discover how unions combat climate heat stress in Cambodia through collective action. Join our webinar for key insights and findings.