Climate Change and Health: challenges of mitigation and adaptation

Healthcare needs to be rethought on many levels, from mode of delivery to management and infrastructure, reconsidering how the health agenda fits into green economics and politics, and how the dissemination of the public-health message can bring about a shift away from high-consumption lifestyles. CCF will focus on policy, debate, and action so that you can make a difference.

The global and local impacts of climate change on health raises many questions.  What are the global and local impacts of climate change on health? What does ‘decarbonising healthcare’ mean on an individual, institutional, national, and international level? What can we learn from other sectors and past public-health campaigns? What are the implications in particular for the NHS? What can clinicians and medical students do? What should be the future direction of research? 

We will be discussing all of these issues and more.  Healthcare needs to adapt to be fit for the future, let's make this happen.