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How does climate change impact people's health, and how do we as humans need a healthy planet to be healthy ourselves?
Sabine Gabrysch provides a clear overview of a planetary health perspective on the climate emergency. She starts with the definition of planetary health: the health of humans and planet earth. It builds on One Health, eco-health, conservation medicine and on public and global health …
Steven Van Den Broucke points out that the impact of climate change on infectious diseases is a complex and multifactorial matter. Predictions on infectious diseases are not linear and need a complex and holistic approach to be able to take into account all interconnectedness between causes and consequences …
For Beverly Longid, the COP26 was at the same time disenchanting as encouraging. On the one hand, the world leaders at the COP26 failed to reach their commitments of the Paris Agreement 2015 to sufficiently reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and financially support …
Moderator Jean Clovis Kalobu neatly guides us through the interesting cases, experiences and findings of the international panel on the consequences of the climate emergency on food security and health. Juste Momboto from Memisa shares the research findings on the case study of the village of Bodanga in the Bokonzi district of DRC …
Moderator Marlies Casier is the chair of the Be-cause health working group for Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and as such the right person to manage this session during which an international panel looks at the impact of the climate emergency on SRHR …
In this session, Elies Van Belle guides us through the provided insights stemming from different case studies in Belgium (Claire Demoury), the Netherlands (Jeffrie Quarsie), Kenya and Burkina Faso (Fiona Scorgie) and the pathways that affect health in these contexts …
Together with a panel of master in public health students at the ITM and ULB-UC Louvain, Karel Gyselinck lays down the key messages of the first day of the conference. What did the students learn, what touched them, what was missing and how will they translate the lessons learned in their (future) daily life? Some observations from the panel …
During the first day of the conference, Elies Van Belle was challenged by these observations: 1. Medical doctors can do so much more. 2. Alone we go fast, together we go further. However this doesn’t come naturally. 3. The climate and health crisis needs a multifactorial and intersectional approach. We have to look at the whole system, the linkages and collaborate …