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.