Forwarded from the Child Health Task Force. Could the CHIFA community perhaps contribute to this effort by hosting 24/7/365 communications to link and complement the webinar series?
Session 3 Date: Monday, February 13
Time: 9 - 10am EST [GMT-5]
Please register using the link below in order to access the meeting connection information and add all meetings in the series to your personal calendar.
Register here https://jsi.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIudeipqT4qGdA4w-XVizUq2lX4eMYuMwT7
In 2022, the Child Health Task Force decided to explore in detail the burden of climate change on children. Since then, the Task Force and UNICEF have collaborated to bring together various climate and health experts to discuss high priority health issues affecting pregnant people, infants and children globally. Join us for the third webinar on adapting child health systems to become more resilient in the face of today’s climate crisis.
The series is aligned with the Healthy Environments for Healthy Children framework, which identifies which environmental and climate hazards affect children globally and their rights to a healthy environment.
Session Topics:
• Heatwaves - November, 2022
• Children's Climate Risk Index - December, 2022
• Heat Stress and Congenital Heart Disease - February, 2023
• Vector-Borne Diseases: Dengue and Zika - March, 2023
• Vector-Borne Diseases: Malaria - May, 2023
• Financing Health and Climate Adaptation - June, 2023
• Excessive Rains and Related Childhood Disease Burdens - August, 2023
• Measuring Climate Adaptation: How to Know It's Going Well - September, 2023
Session Three: The Impact of Heat Stress on Newborn Health Outcomes
A Focus on Congenital Heart Defects
Monday, February 13, 9 - 10am EST (GMT-5)
February 7-14 marks the annual Congenital Heart Disease Awareness Week, which calls for greater awareness of and action on lifelong complications for infants and children born with heart problems. Extreme heat, a growing hazard that approximately 1 billion children globally are already highly exposed to, has been documented as contributing to congenital heart disease (CHD), which is already the most common birth defect. With the effects of heat stress not appropriately prevented and treated, in part due to low levels of awareness, we may witness an increased number of children born with CHD and increased mortality from it in the first year of life, particularly in low and middle income countries.
Join discussion on how heat stress is a worrying contributing factor and what can be done to protect pregnant women and infants against it.
Featuring
Dr. Shao Lin
MD, MPH, PhD
Professor and Graduate Director
School of Public Health, University at Albany
State University of New York
Dr. Shabnam Peyvandi
Pediatric Cardiologist
Co-Director
Healthy Hearts and Minds Program
University of California San Francisco
Swathi Manchikanti
MSPH
Climate Adaptation for Health Lead
Healthy Environments for Healthy Children
UNICEF
Dr. Caradee Wright
PhD
Chief Specialist Scientist
Environment and Health Research Unit
South African Medical Research Council
Moderated by:
Bistra Zheleva
Vice President of Global Strategy and Advocacy
Children’s HeartLink
Cara Endyke Doran
Global Communities
Re-imagining the Package of Care for Children Subgroup
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Dr Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator
Healthcare Information For All
Global Healthcare Information Network
Working in Official Relations with the World Health Organization
20,000 members, 400 supporting organisations, 180 countries, 6 forums, 4 languages
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