Climate Change and Global Health

Vision Integrating climate change science and global health
Mission To provide reliable information and solutions to policy- and decision-makers preventing harmful impacts due to climate change, and to illustrate health benefits from mitigation strategies

Activities

Dec 11th - 16th Dr Joacim Rocklöv participates in the second IPCC lead author meeting in San Fransisco, US.

Dec 13th Dr Barbara Schumann lectured about climate change and health to nursing and medical students at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Dec 4th - 10th Dr Joacim Rocklöv attended the Annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine Hygien in Philadelpia, US.

Dec 4th - 9th Prof Birgitta Evengård attended COP 17, Durban, South Africa and gave a presentation on Vulnerable populations in the Arctic on a side event Dec 6th.

Nov 28th - Dec 5th Dr Maria Nilsson was in Durban, South Africa, attending COP 17.

A visit from the Swedish Minister of Environment

The minister, Mrs Lena Ek, visited the research group on climate change and health for information about current research and work on policy. Joacim Rocklöv gave an overview of the ongoing research focused on low and middle income countries and the central research collaborations. Barbara Schumann described the research in the Arctic region followed by the reserach student Maria Furberg presenting the study "Facing the limit of resilience - perceptions of climate change among reindeer herding Sami in Sweden". Maria Nilsson´s information focused on the groups policy work on local, national and international level; expert functions in the IPCC, the Arctic Human Health Expert Group and participation in COP 17, the global climate meeting in Durban, South Africa.

Photo: Minister Lena Ek and visiting researcher David Hondula, a U.S. National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

Annual INDEPTH meeting 2011 in Maputo, Mozambique

Within the INDEPTH network there are several working groups and one of them focus on climate and weather impacts in the Health and Demographic Surveillance Sites. Joacim Rocklöv and Rainer Sauerborn are part of the facilitators of the climate change working group, which aim to build capacity and competence to research, mitigation and adaptation in low and middle income countries. Read more in the file.

Photo: O Sankoh INDEPTH & A Lamin UNESCO

Professor Tony McMichael appointed an Honorary Doctorate at Umeå University

The Australian Epidemiologist Tony McMichael, a pioneer in the research on climate change and health, has been appointed an Honorary Doctorate at the Medical Faculty, Umeå University. He collaborates with researchers at the division of Epidemiology and Global health, one of the universities strong research environments. In June he lectured on a seminar on climate change and health arranged by Umeå Centre for Global Health Research.

Seminar on "Climate Change and Human Health"

On 10th June we hosted a seminar in Umeå where climate change and human health were in focus. During the seminar prominent international contributors like Professors Tony McMichael, Kristie Ebi, Alistair Woodward, Dr Alan Parkinson and others presented, analyzed and discussed direct and indirect effects on human health arising from the changing climate but also on ways of adapting to these effects. The event was reported by Swedish television.

Climate change impacts on working people

Download articles on how climate change is affecting workers around the world, published in connection to COP 16.

Climate change and Global Health: Linking Science with Policy

Download a special issue of scientific articles on how climate change is affecting people´s health, published in connection to COP 15.