Necessity to have a global approach
Tuesday 3 May 14.00
Room F
In English
Introduction
Act locally, think globally.
Environmental health forces us to break out of our silos and to work in multidisciplinary teams.
It forces us to see the interactions that exist between different sectors.
This session will present different initiatives showing the complexity of the issues at stake.
Chairman
Thomas Vogel
Geneva University Hospitals
Switzerland
Speakers
Julia Richter
Swiss Malaria Group
Switzerland
The Human Right to Health and Environmental Degradation: A Legal Analysis
Gabriella Sozanski
Switzerland
Health Promotion to empower youth to take control of their health – The COVID-19 experience
Elizabeth Willetts
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Canada
Health in the Global Environmental Agenda
Arianna Gamba
Health Care Without Harm Europe
Measuring and reducing plastics in the healthcare sector
Mario Rohrer
University Of Geneva
Switzerland
Peaks of Fine Particulate Matter May Modulate the Spreading and Virulence of COVID-19
Axel Braun
GNU Health
Germany
GNU Health – nationwide healthcare with Free Software
