Other Climate Health Talks: Heatwaves and Health
16-10-2024 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Webinar on heatwaves 16 October 2024
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Welcome to the second lunchtime webinar in our series Climate Health Talks. This time we will be discussing the health impact of heatwaves and what Sweden is doing to improve our preparedness.
Programme:
- Presentation by Andrea E. Schmidt, from the department of Climate & Health at the Austrian National Public Health Institute, on the health impacts of heatwaves, with a focus on concepts of population vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies.
- Presentation by Jorge H. Amorim, from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), focusing on new tools developed to improve heatwave preparedness in the Swedish context.
- Questions and discussion
The talk will be moderated by Christofer Åström, researcher at the Department of Public Health and Clinical medicine, Umeå University.
Registration:
Click here to register and get the link to the webinar
About Climate Health Talks:
Climate Health Talks is a webinar series organised by the Centre for Health Crises and the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. If you have any questions, please email: healthcrises@ki.se