Climate & Health Meeting

In an effort to provide a crucial platform for the diverse stakeholders in the public health and climate communities to come together around solutions, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, the American Public Health Association (APHA), The Climate Reality Project, Harvard Global Health Institute, the University of Washington Center for Health and the Global Environment, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, and Dr. Howard Frumkin, former director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, hosted a Climate & Health Meeting on February 16, 2017 at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Supported by the Turner Foundation and other organizations, the one-day event filled the gap left by the recently-canceled Climate & Health Summit originally to be hosted and sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others.

Given the expedited timeframe of the event, the meeting did not seek to replace the full three-day conference originally planned by the CDC. However, the event preserved the focus of the CDC conference and was a substantive working session for participants, providing a crucial platform for members of public health professions, the climate community, and officials tasked with responding to local health problems, to come together around solutions.

AGENDA

8:00aM-9:00aM

Registration

9:00aM-9:30aM

Welcome REMARKS

Former Vice President Al Gore, Founder and Chairman, The Climate Reality Project
Georges Benjamin, American Public Health Association
Ashish Jha, Harvard Global Health Institute

9:30aM-10:00aM

Keynote Presentation

Vice President Al Gore, Founder and Chairman, The Climate Reality Project

10:00aM-10:15aM

Break

10:15aM-11:30aM

Panel: Connecting Climate Change and Public Health: State of the Science

Moderator
Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin
Heat
Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council and Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Extreme Weather Events and Disasters
Mark Keim, DisasterDoc
The Food Supply
Sam Myers, Harvard University
Infectious Diseases
Glenn Morris, University of Florida
Air Quality and Allergens
Patrick Kinney, Boston University
Mental Health
Lise Van Susteren, Advisory Board member, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:30aM-12:05PM

Special keynote: Co-benefits: The good news story of climate change and health

Introduction by: Patrick Breysse, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Professor Sir Andy Haines, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

12:05pM – 12:15pM

Special Keynote: Laura Turner Seydel

Board Member, the Turner Foundation; Board Chair, Mothers and Others for Clean Air

12:15pM – 12:25pM

Special Keynote: Stephanie Stuckey

Chief Resilience Officer, City of Atlanta

12:30pM-2:00pM

Lunch

12:50pM-1:35pM

Lunchtime Panel: Protecting Public Health From Climate-Related Threats: Lessons from Across the Globe

Moderator: Kristie Ebi, University of Washington
Rainer Sauerborn, Heidelberg Institute of Public Health
Diarmid Campell-Lendrum, World Health Organization
Jan Semenza, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

2:15pM-3:30pM

Panel: Protecting Public Health from Climate-Related Threats: From Science to Practice in the United States

Moderator: Howard Frumkin, University of Washington
Climate Change Adaptation: From Models to Action
George Luber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Vulnerable Populations
Catherine Flowers, Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise
Action at the State and Local Level: The Role of Public Health Agencies
Clifford Mitchell, Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
The Role of the Health Care Sector
Gary Cohen, Health Care Without Harm
BY VIDEO: Tracking and Measuring Progress
Nick Watts, Lancet Countdown and UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

3:30pM-3:45pM

Break

3:45pM-4:45pM

Panel: Communicating the Climate-Health Connection

Moderator: Matt James, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Ed Maibach, George Mason University
Susan Pacheco, University of Texas Health Science Center
Jerry Taylor, Niskanen Center

4:45pM-5:00pM

Closing remarks by Vice President Gore

Climate and Health Meeting Speakers

Bio

Al Gore

Bio

Georges Benjamin

Bio

Pat Breysse

Bio

Diarmid Campell-Lendrum

Bio

Gary Cohen

Bio

Kristie L. Ebi

Bio

Catherine Flowers

Bio

Howard Frumkin

Bio

Professor Sir Andy Haines

Bio

Matt James

Bio

Ashish Jha

Bio

Mark Keim

Bio

Patrick Kinney

Bio

Kim Knowlton

Bio

George Luber

Bio

Ed Maibach

Bio

Clifford Mitchell

Bio

Glenn Morris

Bio

Sam Myers

Bio

Susan Pacheco

Bio

Jonathan Patz

Bio

Rainer Sauerborn

Bio

Jan Semenza

Bio

Stephanie Stuckey

Bio

Jerry Taylor

Bio

Laura Turner Seydel

Bio

Lise Van Susteren

Bio

Nick Watts

climate & health Meeting in the media

Al Gore swoops in to save CDC’s climate and health conference

Shorter conference will “preserve the focus” of the one canceled by the CDC. Read the full story here.

Al Gore hosts climate and health conference in Atlanta

The conference, which was organized after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention canceled its own conference on climate change and health, brought together scientists, public health officials and health care providers.

Controversial climate change conference resurrected

A climate-change conference canceled just before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump was resurrected on Thursday as former Vice President Al Gore said it was vital to "fill a void" on climate change.

Scientists highlight deadly health risks of climate change

The Climate & Health Meeting was organized to replace the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's climate change conference, which was postponed in January, ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration.

When it comes to our health, we have no time to waste

Our organisations joined with former vice president Al Gore and other groups stepping up to host a similar summit.

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PARTNERS

PARTNERSHIP CIRCLE

Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments • American Institute of Architects • American Lung Association • American Public Health Association • American Society of Landscape Architects • Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America • C4 Cities • Center for Climate Change and Health, PHI • Children's Environmental Health Network • Citizens' Climate Lobby • City and County of Denver, Dept. of Environmental Health • ClimateNexus • Columbia University School of Public Health • EcoAmerica • Emory Dept. of Environmental Health • Emory Dept. of Environmental Sciences • George Washington University Sustainability Collective • Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies • Glaser Progress Foundation • Global Climate and Health Alliance • Green Schools National Network • Greenpeace USA • Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, Climate Psychiatry Committee • Harvard Global Health Institute • Institute of Transport Engineers • International Living Future Institute • International Transformational Resilience Coalition • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health and Engineering • Kresge Foundation • Mom's Clean Air Force • NAACP • National Assoc. of City & County Health Officials • National Indian Health Board • National Resilience Institute • Natural Resources Defense Council • Physicians for Social Responsibility • Planet Labs • Public Health Institute • Stanford University, Center for Innovation in Global Health • The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health • The CLEO Institute • Trust for America's Health • Trust for Public Land • Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine • Turner Foundation • U.S. Climate and Health Alliance • U.S. Green Building Council • University of Colorado Consortium on Climate Change and Health • University of Washington School of Public Health • University of Wisconsin-Madison