Register now! Cochrane Planetary Health and the Canadian Association for Global Health are pleased to announce our October 2024 webinar series on increasing climate resilience in global health systems.
Upcoming
Adaptation and mitigation: tackling the dual climate problem facing health systems
Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite; Professor Yvonne Zurynski; Dr K-lynn Smith, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Sydney, Australia
Wednesday October 30, 15:00 Pacific/18:00 Eastern/22:00 UTC
Thursday October 31, 09:00 Australian Eastern Daylight Time
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Healthcare systems face a dual challenge with climate change: they are significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions while also being on the front lines of treating those impacted by climate change. They have to both adapt and mitigate while facing significant headwinds as caring systems around the world are under huge pressures induced by increasing demand, new technologies, and workforce shortages. Join us as we delve into how learning health systems can provide a robust framework for developing and sustaining climate-resilient healthcare. This presentation will emphasise the importance of adaptive policies and flexible structures that enable the rapid integration of new clinical and research insights. We will also examine the value of deimplementing low-value care, ensuring that our healthcare systems not only effectively address climate challenges but also prioritise high-quality, evidence-based practices. Through our research, we aim to support the creation of low-carbon, climate-resilient healthcare systems that are affordable, cost-effective, and improve health outcomes for all while minimising their environmental impact.
Past (recording below)
Climate change, health, and implementation science: Exploring the connections
Dr. Jeremy Hess, University of Washington, USA
Wednesday October 16, 08:00 Pacific/11:00 Eastern/ 15:00 UTC/17:00 CET
As climate change’s impacts intensify, effective adaptation and mitigation solutions need to be rapidly implemented and sustained. People working in the health sector and their partners badly need better evidence about making health systems more climate-resilient and protecting population health.
Implementation science is the scientific study of methods and strategies that facilitate the uptake of evidence-based practice and research into regular use by practitioners and policymakers. In this presentation I will argue that adopting implementation science-based strategies and frameworks can accelerate climate change resilience in the global health sector. I’ll also discuss the challenges of applying implementation science in the climate-and-health space.