The impacts of climate change on public health: Opportunities to mitigate risk

Student Panel

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC3) and the Faculty of Health.

Date: February 10th, 2021

Time: 11:00am-12:00pm (EDT)

Location: WebEx

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Host:

Manvi Bhalla, MSc Candidate, School of Public Health and Health Systems; Graduate President, Climate Students; President & Co-Founder, Shake Up The Establishment; Director & Co-Founder, missINFORMED 

Moderator:

Elanor Waslander, Knowledge Mobilization Manager, forWater Network & WaterSTP Research Group

Speakers:

Emma Blackburn, MASc Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Kelvin Vianini, MASc Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Nadwa Elbadri, MASc Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Omar Sadab Chowdhury, MASc Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Anika Tasnim Hossain, MDP Candidate, Development Practice

Webinar details:

Climate change exacerbates public health risks in various ways, and thus holistic risk management approaches are needed.

This webinar will explore how climate change can increase:

• risk of human exposure to microplastics;
• nutrient loading to surface water from wastewater effluents;
• risk of consuming unsafe drinking water in rural, remote, and marginalized communities; and,
• the risk of microbial health exposures facing agricultural migrant farm workers.

Panelists will propose risk management approaches for mitigation of these public health impacts through the development of frameworks and best management practices, exploring transmission pathways of disease, and implementation of green technologies.

This event is part of our Ideas to shape the future: Student Leaders in Climate Action and Research webinar series. Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date on upcoming student webinars and other IC3 events and programming.