Adaptation Futures 2018 Conference

On 20th June 2018, Clim-HEALTH Africa joined at the Adaptation Futures 2018 Conference by the Public Health Association of South Africa’s (PHASA) Special Interest Group on Climate, Energy and Health in leading a dialogue on “Integrating Health and Climate Adaptation Measures in Africa.”

Through a novel World Café style format, including interdisciplinary presentations and interactive Q-Storming exercises, this session aimed to understand the intersection of climate, energy, and environmental health in Africa and discuss what is needed to facilitate multi and trans disciplinary research to provide evidence for informed policy development and decision-making.  Presenters and participants alike engaged in sharing experience and expertise to tackle some of the most pressing questions of current discourse of climate and health impacts.

Some of the topics discussed in the Q-storming session included:

• Generating increased awareness to the broader adaptation community regarding work of Clim-HEALTH Africa partners and PHASA and strengthen these networks.
• Identifying key barriers to cross-disciplinary climate, environment and health research, and discuss how these unique cross-sector member initiatives can respond.
• Highlighting the broader implications of climate variability and change to health-related systems, identifying how National Met Services can play a big role in coordination with health systems.
• Providing examples of climate-induced health risks, highlighting the interdisciplinary focus required to address them and how to engage climate scientists with the health sector.
• Defining barriers to scale up of use and/or effectiveness of observed data, monitoring networks, and early warning systems in integrating within health systems.

Find the complete report here.

The Adaptations Future 2020 event will take place from 29 September to  1 October 2020 in Delhi, India.