Events and Resources
This page includes information and links for events and resources of interest to the climate health community. If you have questions or would like to share information to be added to this page, please contact Denise Thomson (she/her), dthomson (at) ualberta (dot) ca.
Climate-Health Content at the Global Evidence Summit, Prague, September 2024
The Climate-Health Working Group meeting will be on Thursday 12 September 2024, 07:30 – 08:45. All are welcome!
Tuesday, Sept 10
11:00 – 12:30 Workshop Session A1 (Facilitator: Mona Nasser)
Conducting research priority setting in multisectoral contexts: A case study on sustainability and health services – Co-faciliators: Sumanth Kumbargere, Prashanti Eachempati, Vivian Welch, Alonso Carrasco-Labra, Seilin Uhm, Pamela Cajilig, Moni Coudhury, Denise Thomson
12:30-14:00 Poster Session
Developing a search strategy for a scoping review of adaptation to climate change – Presenter: Denise Thomson
Co-authors: Liz Dennett, Meghan Sebastianski, Anna Noga, Lisa Hartling
Search sources for climate-health evidence syntheses: an overview – Presenter: Maria-Inti Metzendorf
Co-author: Heidrun Janka
Friday, Sept 13
11:00-12:00 Concurrent Session G15 (Short Oral)
Climate change and global health outcome indicators: a scoping review – Presenter: Denise Thomson
Co-authors: Meghan Sebastianski, Megan Nuspl, Megan Green, Vijendra Ingole, Gillian Flower, Antony Brown, Myer Glickman, Richard Webster
Climate-Health Content at the Cochrane Colloquium, London, September 2023
The Climate-Health Working Group meeting was held on Monday, September 4, 13:00-13:45.
Workshops
- Impacts of climate change on health and health systems: Producing evidence syntheses to support decision-making. Contributors: Denise Thomson, Netzahualpilli Delgado-Figueroa, Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Miranda Cumpston, Patricia Heyn, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Vanessa Piechotta, Nicole Skoetz, Lisa Susan Wieland, Esmeralda Alcatraz-Sanchez
- Transdisciplinary Approaches for Setting Research Priorities on Climate Change and Health: Engaging Decision Makers, Researchers, and Communities. Contributors: Soumyadeep Bhaumik, Pamela Cajilig, Prashanti Eachempati, Sumanth Kumbargere Nagraj, Mona Nasser, Vanessa Piechotta, Tarang Sharma, Denise Thomson, Seilin Uhm, Lisa Susan Wieland
Oral presentation
- Understanding the health impacts of climate change: search filter development for exposure pathways. Contributors: Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Ina Monsef, Katherine Jones, Susan Wieland, Camila Escobar Liquitay, Heidrun Janka, Denise Thomson
Posters
- A living systematic map of human health impacts attributable to climate change. Minx J, Callaghan M, Lück S, Repke T, Schleussner C
- Environmental scanning to assess climate change readiness across Canadian health systems, Thomson D, Webster R, Haddaway N, Hartling L
- Evaluation of the search methods in systematic reviews related to climate change and adverse effects on health published in 2022-2023. Ceron J, Baraldo MJ, Escobar Liquitay CM
- Evidence syntheses of the health risks of weather and climate-related exposures: A scoping review, Thomson D, Metzendorf M, Cumpston M, Wieland S, Monsef I, Jones K, Tong S, Ebi KL
- Mapping the Evidence Related to Health and Climate Change Mitigation, Golder S, Lampard P
- Methodological challenges regarding climate change and health in evidence-based medicine- Presentation of discussions from the german congress for EbM 2023, Ziegler A, Bühn S, Buchberger B