The REGILIENCE team is pleased to announce the sixth Open Training Session focusing on heat and health.
As extreme weather events such as heatwaves pose a growing threat to human health, this session will explore strategies to integrate heat resilience into health adaptation and planning.
Agenda (indicative):
- Welcome and Introduction | Nadège Seguel and Lesly Mercedes Barriga Delgado (REGILIENCE) – 5 min
- Empirical evidence of the influence of heatwaves on non-communicable diseases | Prasanta Kumar Roy (HWWI Hamburg) – 15 min
Living in a hot house? The impact of climate change on heat, health and outdoor productivity in Europe I Fred Hattermann (TransformAr)
- Water pathogens and extreme weather events: A model to assess microbiological
risks in the coastal bathing waters of Barcelona under different heat scenarios | PhD. Carmen Torres Costa (EURECAT) – 20 min - Reducing the Health Effects of Heat – Examples from Regions and Cities in Germany | Theresa Kaiser (Adelphi) – 20 min
The ARSINOE project: Addressing extreme heatwaves in Athens I PhD. Dimitris Kofinas (ARSINOE) – 15 min
Preventing health effects from heat in the WHO European Region I Marisol Yglesias-Gonzalez (WHO) – 15 min
- Q&A Session | Discussion with the presenters – 5 min
- Wrap-up and closing – 5 min
