Lectures and seminars The Heat is On! Building Resilience to Extreme Heat
Join us for an exciting seminar examining best practices, research gaps and ways forward to shape and evaluate heat adaptation plans in the context of global warming through interactions between universities, health care providers, public authorities and policy makers. The seminar will include short presentations, a panel discussion and a post-seminar mingle.
The Centre for Health Crises at KI, in collaboration with the Institute of Environmental Medicine at KI, the Center for Climate and Health, Boston University, in the US and the Department of Epidemiology Lazio Regional Health Service, in Italy, are happy to invite you to a seminar in our ongoing KI Contributes series titled:
The Heat is On! Building Resilience to Extreme Heat
When: 26 January, 2023 14:00-16:00. The seminar will be followed by a mingle with refreshments
Where: Samuelssonsalen, KI Campus Solna, Tomtebodavägen 6, 171 65 Solna
Speakers and panellists:
Dr Francesca de Donato, climatologist and epidemiologist at the Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region, Italy
Professor Gregory Wellenius, environmental epidemiologist and director of the Center of Climate and Health at Boston University, USA
Dr Massimo Stafoggia, biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Region, Italy and adjunct senior lecturer at IMM, KI, Sweden
Dr Petter Ljungman, associate professor IMM and expert coordinator at the Centre for Health Crises, KI, Sweden
Karin Lundgren-Kownacki, climate adaptation analyst in the secretariat for the Swedish Expert Council on Climate Adaptation, hosted by SMHI - - the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Ida Knutsson, analyst, environmental health at the Swedish Public Health Agency
Dr Christofer Åström, research fellow at the department of Public health and clinical medicine at Umeå University, Sweden