ISSOP is excited to announce our 2023 Annual Conference to be held jointly with the Kenya Paediatric Association in Mombasa, Kenya between 25th and 28th April 2023. This is ISSOP’s first ever meeting in Africa. The SAVE THE DAY image and provisional, draft programme can be downloaded at https://www.issop.org/cmdownloads/save-the-day-issop-annual-meeting-2023...
Responding to the Impact of the Climate Crisis on Children
In this 4-day meeting, you will learn:
1. How are the changes in climate affecting the health of children in Africa and the world?
2. What interventions can we offer to address climate and health in the clinical setting?
3. What should we be students, trainees, and colleagues about climate and child health?
4. What do policymakers need to know about how climate affects child health?
5. What concrete actions can we take to mitigate our personal and professional carbon footprints.
6. How can we best advocate for a comprehensive response to the Climate Crisis?
This meeting is designed for health professional students and clinicians, including nursing and medical students, trainees, physicians, nurses, allied health practitioners, and others concerned about child health.
PLEASE NOTE THE ENTIRE CONFERENCE WILL BE AVAILABLE VIRTUALLY,
THOUGH ALL ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
YOUR PRESENCE WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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 (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). www.chifa.org He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group. www.hifa.org/people/steering-group www.hifa.org/support/members/tony Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk
