Mitigating Climate Change and Local Opportunities for Health Improvement
Colchester Medics for Safer Roads have organised the above seminar which will take place on the 25 February from 7:30 till 9:30pm at the Postgraduate Centre at Colchester Hospital. If you would like to attend please email elaine.chapman@nhs.net
Dr Paul Bryne extends his invitation to CTPC members and says;
‘We would like to invite you to this special event exploring the relevance of climate change and the opportunities and obligations this offers to public health.
We are delighted to announce two excellent speakers:
Dr Hugh Montgomery is Professor of Intensive Care and director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance, both University College London. Hugh has been pivotal in the publication of the recent international joint UCL – Lancet commissions on Climate Change (http://www.thelancet.com/commissions/climate-change) which he has been co-chairing. These emphasise that tackling climate change could be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century. By way of an appetiser, you can watch a speech by Prof Montgomery at a health conference in Durban in 2015 via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbS8pe-DVSk
Dr Mike Gogarty Director for Public Health at Essex County Council.
Mike will address the impact of Public Health on issues around Climate Change in our locality of Essex.
We have organised this seminar in response to the strong scientific consensus on the danger posed by man-made climate change http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ and our interest in exploring opportunities to mitigate an unprecedented threat, while improving public health. Realising that progressing the issue locally will need to be collaborative, we will be inviting health care clinicians, Public Health staff , staff from Essex County Council and local politicians.
Programme:
7.00 – 7.30 Light buffet with refreshments
7.30 – 7.40 Short Introduction by chair Dr Elmer van der Hoek, GP Tutor
7.40 – 8.30 Prof Hugh Montgomery: Climate Change and Health
8.30 – 9.00 Dr Mike Gogarty: Local impact of Public Health on issues relating to Climate Change
(Followed by Debate, questions and comments from the floor)
9.30 Conclusion by the chair and promotion for the follow-up symposium
We intend to follow this event with a symposium on a Saturday towards the end of April, further exploring how we can prepare for a low carbon future and improvements in Public Health with focus on local opportunities such as promoting alternative travel arrangements to the car, especially by use of the bicycle.
We very much hope you will be able to join us and contribute to this important debate.’