GPHW2023: Sustainable Dentistry

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 18:00 (CEST)

Event Description: This event will firstly examine sustainability, the impact of dentistry on planetary health and ask how we as dental professionals can embed sustainability into the modern delivery of dentistry. Secondly, we will examine the sustainability of health care systems, particularly in the most marginalized areas of the world, asking how we can create a sustainable system of care when infrastructure and workforce capacity is suboptimal? How can we overcome significant financial and social barriers to accessing oral health care worldwide?

The event invites all dental and healthcare students and professionals to start a journey producing concrete actions locally to make oral health sustainable. We hope to catalyze our young professionals to take the next steps towards enacting change.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): WFPHA Oral Health Working Group & Youth for Sustainable Oral Health

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ropPTYctSayjQXoeI57_Gg

Registration: https://forms.gle/8Y97ZsGXCuG5guUb7

GPHW2023: The Cost of Mental Health in a Changing Planet

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 17:00 – 18:30 (CEST)

Event Description: The event is organized in collaboration with the Planetary Health Alliance. There will be two keynote speakers: Prof. Fusar Poli and Prof. Odone. Prof. Fusar Poli, Psychiatrist, Professor of Preventive Psychiatry at King’s College London, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at University of Pavia, will focus on “the impact of climate change on global mental health”, while Prof. Odone, Full Professor of Hygiene and Preventive Medicine, President of the Digital Health Section at the European Public Health Association, will discuss the importance of a preventive approach to the issue.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: In-person and Virtual

Language(s): Italian

Organiser(s):

How to Attend In-person: Collegio Nuovo – Fondazione Sandra e Enea Mattei, Via Abbiategrasso 404 – Pavia (Italy)

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://forms.gle/BjkEw9Bj3SA4KLiY8 

GPHW2023: Health Policies and Public Health During the Pandemic Crisis in Latin America: The Use of Politics to Reject the Global Consensus Against COVID-19

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 15:30 (CEST)

Event Description: In Latin America, politics has historically been claimed as a fundamental dimension for the identification of the context, design, and implementation of public health policies. Politics should illuminate the technical debate by contributing to the understanding of the interests and agendas that mobilize actors to facilitate or obstruct public health policy. However, a contemporary trend gained momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic: some relevant political leaders in the region used political instruments and mechanisms to forge false narratives against scientific evidence, promoting hesitation regarding preventive methods, and the dissemination of misguided alternatives for disease prevention and treatment. The combination of vocal leaders and new ways of disseminating these alternative narratives has caused serious damage to efforts to combat the disease in the region. The panel will cover the experiences of Brazil, Mexico, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, exploring similarities and differences in political narratives and strategies towards pandemics. Panelists will be encouraged to analyze the contemporary roles of politics in relation to health policy and public health.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

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Organiser(s): Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva

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GPHW2023: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 15:00 – 16:00 (CEST)

Event Description: Public Health Association of Bangladesh (PHAB) will observe the Global Public Health Week (GPHW) which is a initiative of the World Federation of Public Health Association (WFPHA) that will take place on 3 -7 April 2023. On the eve of this week, a ‘Webinar’ will be organized with the theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis by PHAB in collaboration with National Heart Foundation (NHF), Center for Injury Prevention & Research of Bangladesh (CIPRB), Obstetrical & Gynecological Society of Bangladesh (OGSB), Bangladesh Nursing Association (BNA), Bangladesh Society of Midwives (BSMW). The participants will be from the mentioned organizations. The webinar will be facilitated by Prof. Shah Monir Hossain, President, PHAB. A keynote presentation will be made by Prof. Dr. Iqbal Kabir, Director, Climate Change, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh. A report will be generated after the webinar.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English and Bangla

Organiser(s): Public Health Association of Bangladesh (PHAB)

How to Attend In-person: N/A

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GPHW2023: Strengthening Climate Change Education for the Public Health Workforce

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 15:00 – 16:00 (CEST)

Event Description: The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) will be hosting an online seminar with climate-health partners to learn about the role of public health professionals in the climate crisis. This seminar will also include a summary of climate-health education resources across ASPHER partners, with future insights on how schools of public health can move forward from advocacy to action.

Event Type: Panel Discussion & Round Table

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): The Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: N/A

GPHW2023: Climate Change: A Public Health Crisis with a Health-centred Solution

Theme: Tackling the Climate Crisis

Date and Time: 04 April 2023 | 14:00 – 14:45 (CEST)

Event Description: Climate change threatens to undermine the last 50 years of gains in public health. We are experiencing intensifying heatwaves and extreme weather events, worsening flood and drought, the spread of infectious diseases, and exacerbated poverty and mental ill-health, all connected to the climate crisis. However, an aligned, global and equitable response to climate change will bring immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets, and more liveable cities. The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change exists to monitor this transition from threat to opportunity. We are a collaboration of over 300 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe, bringing together climate scientists, engineers, energy specialists, economists, political scientists, public health professionals and doctors. Each year our findings are published annually in medical journal The Lancet ahead of the UN climate change negotiations. Our data makes clear how climate change is affecting our health, the consequences of delayed action and the health benefits of a robust response. During GPHW 2023, join this webinar with Lancet Countdown experts to explore:

• The latest evidence on the links between climate change and public health, using data from the 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels.
• The role of Public Health associations in helping avoid the worst health impacts of climate change, and achieving a healthy, thriving future – including how global public health actors can use Lancet Countdown indicators and data.

Event Type: Seminar/Webinar

Event Format: Virtual

Language(s): English

Organiser(s): The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change

How to Attend In-person: N/A

How to Attend Virtually: Zoom

Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UIBvVtvKS02Ng5MVrjIdtg