Digital health and climate public webinar, Wed 23 April 14h00 UTC

17 April, 2025

Dear colleagues and friends,

While the climate crisis accelerates with 2024 being the hottest year on record, the role of digital health is expanding in countries around the world. Digital health and climate intersect in many and varied ways. This webinar will provide an overview of development in this fast-moving area.

The digital health & climate working group have prepared an overview of digital health and climate which is available here

<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ghsm/assets/digital-health-and-climate-overview-de...

Outline of the webinar:

- Introduction to digital health & the climate crisis

- Typology of digital health & climate (Adaptation, Learning & Mitigation)

- DHIS2 for climate & health

- Examples of activities, progress & challenges

- Next steps towards digital health as a tool to survive the climate crisis

Date: Wednesday 23 April 2025

Time: 14h00 UTC (10am EDT; 3pm BST; 4pm CEST; 5pm EAT; 7.30pm IST)

Duration: 1 hour

System: Zoom. Please register here

<https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4EQ-rHthRVWwuelTXl1cFA>

We hope you can come.

Best wishes,

Peter Benjamin

with Matt Hulse and Gabby Samuel the co-chairs of the Digital health & climate working group

LINKS IN FULL:

- Digital health and climate overview document

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ghsm/assets/digital-health-and-climate-overview-de...

- Zoom registration

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/4EQ-rHthRVWwuelTXl1cFA#/registr...

HIFA profile: Peter Benjamin is SA director of HealthEnabled, South Africa. Professional interests: Digital health, mHealth, Empowerment through health information. Email address: peter AT healthenabled.org