Webinar Announcement
Temperature Is a Vital Sign: Climate Change and Population Health in Alaska
Thursday, 5 October 2023
11:00 a.m. Alaska Time/3:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Online or Cambridge, Massachusetts
For more information, go to:
https://www.belfercenter.org/event/temperature-vital-sign-climate-chang…
Organizers announce their upcoming webinar, titled Temperature Is a Vital Sign: Climate Change and Population Health in Alaska. This one-hour webinar will take place Thursday, 5 October 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Alaska Time/3:00 p.m. Eastern Time online or in the Rubenstein Building - David T. Ellwood Democracy Lab, Room 414AB at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
This seminar will highlight the efforts of physicians from Massachusetts General Hospital’s Division of Space, Ecological, Arctic, and Resource Limited Medicine to create a program of health monitoring with colleagues in the Northwest Arctic Borough of Alaska to quantify and qualify the impacts of climate change on human health through the lens of emergency medical care. The project, led by Arctic Initiative Faculty Affiliate Dr. N. Stuart Harris and nominated for the prestigious 2023 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award, seeks to inform scientific and policy priorities for protecting the health of Arctic populations in a warming world and to create a scalable model for assessing the health impacts of climate change that could be deployed to healthcare settings nationally and internationally.
Room capacity is limited and seating will be on a first come, first served basis. The seminar will also be streamed via Zoom. Virtual attendees should register online, and upon registering, will receive a confirmation email with a Zoom link.
For more information, go to:
https://www.belfercenter.org/event/temperature-vital-sign-climate-chang…
For questions, contact:
Elizabeth Hanlon
Email: ehanlon [at] hks.harvard.edu