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 of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Founding Dean of Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University

Andy Haines

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

Cunrui Huang

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

Jessica Kronstadt

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

Vera Siesjö

Senior One Health Scientist Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

Jian Zhang

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

Jian Zhou

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

Sandro Demaio

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

Jocalyn Clark

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

John S. Ji

Associate Professor
Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University

Katherine Littler

Co-lead Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit World Health Organization (WHO)

María Neira

Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO)

Yoonhee Kim

Associate Professor Department of Global Environmental Health, Graduate School of Medicine at University of Tokyo
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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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Climate Change and Health: Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing World