Converging Threats, Cascading Health Risks: Climate Change, Food Security, and Migration
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 Published On Apr 19, 2021

This is the second session of a 3-part Climate Change and Health speaker series hosted by the UCSF School of Medicine’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity and the UCSF Center for Climate, Health, and Equity ( https://climatehealth.ucsf.edu/ )​

For information on the full Climate Change and Health series: https://pophealth.ucsf.edu/climate

Climate change is anticipated to unleash unprecedented threats to global food security and drive the largest wave of human migration in history. This session evaluates the intersection of climate change with the social determinants of health, emphasizing the compounding connections between a warming climate, food and water security, and migration.

--Program—

Welcome by Arianne Teherani, PhD (UCSF)
Introductory Remarks by Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA (UCSF)

Presentations:
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD, MS (UCSD)
Samuel S. Myers, MD, MPH (Planetary Health Alliance, Harvard University)

Panel Discussion Moderated by Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA (UCSF)
Lujain Alqodmani, BMSc, MBBS, MIHMEP (EAT)
Tere Almaguer (PODER)
Edwin J. Castellanos, PhD, MS (Universidad del Valle de Guatemala)
Samuel S. Myers, MD, MPH (Planetary Health Alliance, Harvard University)
Veerabhadran Ramanathan, PhD, MS (UCSD)

Closing Remarks by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS (UCSF)

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