Lectures and seminars Climate Health Talks: The Creeping Crisis of Climate and Health - Does a preparedness framing help or hinder action?
Climate Health Talks are back!
In this instalment we explore the concept of 'creeping crises as a lens on preparedness and action in climate and health. Our three speakers will approach the topic from the vantage point of international relations, climate policy, and crisis governance. In the discussion that follows we will examine how institutions tackle a slow-moving threat and if the concept of creeping crises is helpful in addressing the issues facing climate and health.
The event is held in English
Programme
- Presentations by:
- Mark Rhinard from Stockholm University and The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), on the concept of creeping crises, which he was part of conceptualising, and its relationship to climate and health. Is it an adequate and useful framing, or does it have limits?
- Victor Galaz Rodriguez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, whose work on management of disruptive, non-linear environmental change, planetary boundaries, thresholds and globally connected risks, adds to Mark's work on the concept of creeping crises. Victor will also bring in a health aspect to the concept, through his work with the Lancet Commission on Human Health and Climate Change and on climate driven spread of diseases.
- Maja Fjaestad from Karolinska Institutet on whether the machinery we build for acute crises help or actively mislead us when the threat is a slow, creeping one like climate and health — and what would governing a creeping crisis well actually demand. She will speak based on her experience from leading the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs in Sweden through the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as her other work on crisis leadership.
- Questions and discussion. Moderated by Petter Ljungman from the Centre for Health Crises at Karolinska Institutet
Date and time
Tuesday 1 December 2026, 13:00-14:30
Place
the Nils Ringertz room, Biomedicum building, KI Campus Solna, Solnavägen 9, 171 65 Solna or Online via Zoom Webinar
Register
Click here to sign up! If you register to join online a link to the webinar will be sent to the email address you provide.
Contact
If you have any questions, please email healthcrises@ki.se
Climate Health Talks is a seminar series organised by the Centre for Health Crises and the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet. It brings researchers together with non-academic stakeholders — authorities, agencies, and practitioners — to strengthen dialogue and build a Swedish network at the intersection of climate and health.