Recording of ISSOP webinar: young people and climate change

10 May, 2021

Dear CHIFA members

You will be aware of the current International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) webinar series on climate change and child health and you can sign up for the next one on 27th May via the ISSOP website www.issop.org<http://www.issop.org> - more details will be sent out on CHIFA soon.

The recording of the last webinar on 22nd April is now available on youtube at the following link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DD2R5piKnU , where you can find the talks given by four remarkable young women about the climate crisis together with the discussion following the talks. This is highly recommended and we are fortunate to have such talented young people in the world, and hope to work together with them in future.

Tony Waterston

CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk