Event

Climate Change and Health: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing World

May 21, 2025

14:00 - 15:30

Geneva Health Forum at World Health Assembly 2025

Presentation

Climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it is a public health emergency. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns are placing unprecedented stress on health systems and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Strengthening adaptation and resilience is now essential to safeguarding human well-being.
This symposium brings together global experts to advance international cooperation on climate health, moving beyond crisis response toward proactive resilience-building. Key themes include climate health ethics, planetary health, and the interconnected well-being of human populations and the planet itself. Through discussions balancing scientific rigor with real-world implementation, the event will explore advanced meteorology modeling, effective early warning systems, health co-benefits of climate action, and strategies from emerging AI-driven health surveillance to community-based adaptation—ensuring no population is left behind.
By fostering collaboration across organizations and regions, the symposium will provide a platform to integrate health into climate adaptation policies, offering tools to measure health outcomes in local contexts and achieve shared goals for a resilient future.

Speakers

Margaret Chan


Director-General Emeritus
World Health Organization
Founding Dean
Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
China

Andy Haines


Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
United Kingdom

Cunrui Huang


Vice Dean, Professor
Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
China

Jessica Kronstadt


Program Director of Planetary Health Alliance
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
USA

Vera Siesjö


Senior One Health Scientist
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Australia

Jian Zhang


Vice President
Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
China    

Jian Zhou


Assistant Director
Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University
China

Sandro Demaio


Director and Head of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health
World Health Organization Western Pacific Region
Republic of Korea

Jocalyn Clark


International Editor, Head of Scholarly Comment
The British Medical Journal (BMJ)
United Kingdom

John S. Ji


Associate Professor
Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
China

Katherine Littler


Co-lead Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit
World Health Organization
Switzerland

María Neira


Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Yoonhee Kim


Associate Professor, Department of Global Environmental Health
Graduate School of Medicine at University of Tokyo
Japan

Crédit photo : Flore Pratolini

Report

Organizer

Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health (VSPH) 

The Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University, established on April 2, 2020, is a strategic response to global health trends and national health demands. Emphasizing integration, internationalization, and excellence, the School leverages Tsinghua’s multidisciplinary strengths to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovative training models. It focuses on four core areas: public health security, holistic health, health big data, and health policy and management. With a primary focus on graduate education, the School aims to become a leading hub for talent cultivation, interdisciplinary innovation, policy support for “Healthy China,” and a model of global health governance.

To get more information : https://vsph.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/gywm/Overview.htm

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