Recent trends of climate disasters: Lessons we can learn

Abstract

Abstract Dr Chadia Wannous has more than twenty-five years of experience in program management, coordination, and research with particular focus on emergency preparedness and response and risk reduction of health threats. She is currently Coordinator and Senior Advisor at the Towards a Safer World Network for Pandemic Preparedness (TASW). For the past decade, Dr. Wannous served in the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) in Switzerland as Senior Policy Advisor coordinating the implementation and advocacy for the health components of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Science and Technology Partnership, to optimize UN work on global initiatives related to preparedness and response. This data rich presentation provides a global scan of health impact of climate change and recent health mitigation and adaptation measures. Dr Wannous will speak to specific examples, what led to these climate initiated disasters, what went wrong or served to exacerbate the catastrophes in terms of preparedness and responses. She will share the lessons learned providing real examples of both public health successes and ‘failures'.