2015 Global Health Conference on Climate Change
About the Conference When: May 2, 2015, 10:00 AM to 4:30PM Where: Palmer Amphitheatre (Room 522), McIntyre Building (5th floor) McGill University 3655 Promenade Sir William Osler *Entrance via 6th floor on Avenue des Pins |
Free to attend (lunch included)
***Mandatory Registration Online***
***Mandatory Registration Online***
The problem of climate change is far-reaching, it does not end at environmental destruction. According to data from WHO, estimated annual deaths due to climate change from malnutrition, diarrhoea, malaria, and flooding since 1970 have reached numbers greater than 150,000. With the increase of natural disasters, rising sea levels, and air pollution, health consequences from respiratory diseases, the spread of vector-borne illnesses, malnutrition, and societal insecurity are on a parallel rise. Thus, both physical and mental health are consequences of climate change that continue to present complexed challenges, especially in populations from areas of the world with the least access to the world's resources and have contributed least to its cause.
This conference aims to explore ongoing issues of climate change globally and at home, and more specifically, how human health is a direct effector of changing global environments. Topics of the talk focuses on health consequences that comes along with the increase of natural disasters, rising sea levels, and air pollution, while encouraging a transdisciplinary, intersectoral conversation about health that consider humans and other species.
Furthermore, this conference acts as a call to political action for students of health or those passionate about global health. After listening to speakers from diverse backgrounds who each tackle global health and climate change from different perspectives, the day concludes with a Political Action Workshop facilitated by International Federation of Medical Students' Association presenting a specific plan of attack, effectively characterizing the 2015 Global health Conference on Climate Change as going beyond education and awareness, to change and action.
Please register for the conference via the registration page.
For more information, please use the contact page or email at [email protected]
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This conference aims to explore ongoing issues of climate change globally and at home, and more specifically, how human health is a direct effector of changing global environments. Topics of the talk focuses on health consequences that comes along with the increase of natural disasters, rising sea levels, and air pollution, while encouraging a transdisciplinary, intersectoral conversation about health that consider humans and other species.
Furthermore, this conference acts as a call to political action for students of health or those passionate about global health. After listening to speakers from diverse backgrounds who each tackle global health and climate change from different perspectives, the day concludes with a Political Action Workshop facilitated by International Federation of Medical Students' Association presenting a specific plan of attack, effectively characterizing the 2015 Global health Conference on Climate Change as going beyond education and awareness, to change and action.
Please register for the conference via the registration page.
For more information, please use the contact page or email at [email protected]
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Les conséquences liées au changement Climatique ne se mesurent pas uniquement à la destruction de l’environnement, mais au contraire se manifeste à notre époque sous de multiples autres formes. Selon l’OMS, depuis 1970 plus de 150,000 décès seraient dû au changement climatique, et plus précisément pour cause de malnutrition, d'inondations, et de maladies (diarrhée, paludisme,..). De plus, si le changement climatique est à l’origine d’une augmentation des catastrophes naturelles (la montée des eaux) ou encore de la pollution de l’air, on constate que ses conséquences seront à l’origine de problèmes sanitaires, de maladies respiratoires, de la propagation de maladies à transmission vectorielle, et même, de malnutrition et d’insécurité sociale.
ainsi, autant de problématiques majeures et défis auxquels sera confrontée la génération actuelle et future.
Cette conférence vise à explorer les enjeux actuels du changement climatique à l'échelle mondial mais surtout de nous faire prendre conscience de l'influence direct qu’ont ces changements majeures sur la santé.
En outre, cette conférence agit comme un appel à l'action politique pour les étudiants de la santé mais aussi les passionnés de la santé mondiale. Après avoir écouté les orateurs issus de divers horizons mais qui présentent tous un intérêt pour la santé mondiale et le changement climatique, la journée se terminera par un atelier d'Action politique animée par la Fédération internationale des étudiants de médecine qui proposera un plan d’action relation avec la conférence : la santé mondiale 2015 et le changement climatique.
Merci de vous enregistrer afin de participer à la conférence.
Pour davantage d'informations, contactez-nous via la page "contactez-nous" ou par email à [email protected]