Our climate and health emergency - Future role for global public health

Abstract

Abstract Prof Laetitia Rispel is Immediate past President of the WFPHA, and Professor of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand: Johannesburg. She has a strong research background and publication record on public health governance, health workforce education, ethics, policy and practice. Following talks on the relationship between climate change and food and water insecurity presenting a public health emergency, and case examples of recent disasters, Professor Rispel will outline the WFPHA vision for the public health sector's role in the coming decades. The expanding need for well resourced, and well-trained public health sector at national and regional levels will be outlined. As the world careers ever closer to existential threats from unabated climate change, a key theme covered will be the imperative for multilateral climate negotiations to include public health experts Following this presentation, the panel will invite questions and discussion from the floor to share experience and develop solutions-based model for expanded role of public health, and how we transition to that new world.