Climate and Health Workshop

All interested Newcastle University colleagues (researchers, academics, technical and PS) are invited to register for our Climate and Health Workshop to be held in-person only at 1:30-4:30pm (registration and refreshments from 1pm) on Wednesday 21 September at St James Park.

The workshop will bring colleagues together from across the whole University to focus on the research intersection between Climate and Health. Our definition of this follows the Wellcome Trust’s Climate and Health priority theme and also the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health used by the UKRI Planetary Health Workshop report. Participants at the Climate and Heath workshop will hear from Prof. Sir Andy Haines Chair of UKRI Planetary Health group, co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership working group on climate change and health and the Royal Society/ Academy of Medical Sciences group on health and climate change mitigation, and Dr Rachael Taylor, Senior Research Manager at the Climate and Health Team at the Wellcome Trust. During the workshop, participants will help shape the Climate and Health research agenda at Newcastle University and the event will culminate with the awarding of up to four £5,000 Climate and Health Research Scoping Prizes (more details will be sent out with the event joining instructions).

According to the World Health Organisation, climate change is the single greatest threat to humanity. For human health the effects of climate change itself and the effects of attempts to mitigate and adapt to climate change will be complex and wide ranging. There are significant gaps in knowledge in understanding these effects, understanding how to protect human health in the course of adapting to climate change and how climate mitigation actions might benefit health. Every field of study relating to health, every disease group, health service, diagnostic, treatment or intervention will be impacted in some way by climate and environmental change  and all health services and research has to itself become sustainable. We therefore hope to see a really wide range of colleagues at the workshop and encourage you to attend even if you haven’t previously considered your health-focussed area of research (of any discipline) within the context of climate change.

Please register at https://forms.office.com/r/ftGMsFvKue before Friday 9 September. If you would like to be involved but cannot attend on this date, then you are welcome to send a briefed delegate and there is space on the form to indicate this.