VENUE CHANGE - IPH Seminar: Climate change: whose health will be affected? (25 February 2010)

The Copenhagen Summit provided a focus for Climate Change at the end of 2009.  To build on this in 2010 the Institute of Public Health in Ireland invites you to participate in an all-Ireland event on the health effects of climate change.

There has been a high level of interest in this event and we have changed venue to accommodate more people. The venue is now Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2.

Thursday 25 February 2010
10.00am – 1.00pm

Aims

• Raise awareness of potential health impacts of climate change and action needed to reduce likelihood of adverse health outcomes
• Bring together stakeholders with a role in the climate change agenda.

Objectives

Participants will:

• Have increased knowledge of potential health impacts of climate change
• Be aware of how climate change impacts on different groups within the population
• Be able to identify key groups including professionals, politicians, policy makers and community groups who have roles to play in reducing likelihood of adverse health outcomes from climate change
• Be more aware of what action is needed to reduce likelihood of adverse health outcomes.

Programme

10.00               Registration

10.15               Chair
                         Owen Metcalfe - Associate Director, IPH

                         Opening Address
                         John Gormley - Minister, Dept of the Environment,
                        Heritage & Local Government

10.30               Prof Mike Gill - Co-Chair, Climate & Health Council
                         “Health Impacts of Climate Change”

11.10                Coffee Break

11.30               Chair
                         Dr Elizabeth Mitchell – Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health,
                         Social Services & Public Safety

                        Prof John Sweeney - Lecturer, NUI Maynooth
                        “Climate Change - Distributive Impacts”

11.50              Prof Frank Convery - Professor of Environmental Policy,
                        University College Dublin
                       “The Health Agenda within Sustainable Development”

12.10               Jim Kitchen – Head, Sustainable Development Commission
                         Northern Ireland
                         “Links Across the Island –What We Must Do Together”

12.30                Questions & Answers

13.00                Close & Lunch

Further information on IPH can be accessed from http://www.publichealth.ie

We hope you will be able to join us.  Please confirm attendance with Aisling O'Connor - Email: aisling.oconnor@publichealth.ie or Tel: +353 1 478 6300 by Friday, 5 February 2010.

Contact us

Belfast:
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
Forestview
Purdy's Lane
Belfast
BT8 7ZX
Northern Ireland
Telephone: +44 28 9064 8494
Fax: +44 28 9064 6604
Email: info@publichealth.ie
 
Dublin:
The Institute of Public Health in Ireland
5th Floor
Bishop's Square
Redmond's Hill
Dublin 2
Ireland
Telephone: +353 1 478 6300
Fax: + 353 1 478 6319
Email: info@publichealth.ie