"Climate & health cross-sector partnerships: expanding the toolkit to address the climate emergency"

This panel discusses examples of cross-sector partnerships to expand the toolkit of interventions that will mitigate the impact of climate on diseases and health. In particular, there will be examples drawn from soil health, repellents, mental health and flooding management.

With the following speakers and presentations:

Effects of climate change on soil health and impact on the global spread of NTDs: the role of soil science and collaborations with land management
Prof Kishor Wasan (Co-Founder & Co-Director Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at UBC, University of British Columbia) and John Paul Wasan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Climate change and its effect on vector-borne diseases: an example of partnership to provide a malaria preventive solution
Delalih Manteau (Global Health Institute, Merck)

Climate distress, climate-sensitive risk factors, and mental health among Tanzanian youth
Leah Prencipe (Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC Rotterdam and Postdoctoral Researcher in Public Health, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University)

Perennial flooding and its negative impacts on health facilities and the community dwellers: perspectives from Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Dr Churchill Tabowei (Neglected Tropical Diseases NTDs Programs Coordinator of Bayelsa State Nigeria)

Recorded online on Nov 22nd 2023, as part of the ISNTD Climate and Health conference
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