Connecting Climate Change and Health: Research and Innovation - Agenda

Welcome

Bechara Choucair, MD, Executive Vice President & Chief Health Officer, Kaiser Permanente

The Climate-Health Nexus

Rachel L. Levine, MD, Admiral, U.S. Public Health Service; Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

National Insights and Perspectives

Ali Zaidi, Assistant to the President, National Climate Advisor

Driving Research and Innovation

Moderator: Shyam Bishen, PhD, MBA, Head of Health & Healthcare, World Economic Forum 

Panelists:

  • Victor Dzau, MD, President, National Academy of Medicine
  • Cheryl Moore, Chief Research Programmes Officer, Wellcome Trust
  • Naveen Rao, MD, Senior Vice President of the Health Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation

How Research Can be a Catalyst for Change

Moderator: Nsedu Witherspoon, MPH, Executive Director, Children’s Environmental Health Network 

Panelists:

  • Zulfiqar Bhutta, PhD, MBBS, FRCPCH, Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health & Policy; Senior Scientist, Research Institute; The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Michelle A. Williams, ScD, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Jake Barton, Founder, Local Projects; Emerson Collective Climate Fellow

Concluding Thoughts

Shyam Bishen, PhD, MBA, Head of Health & Healthcare, World Economic Forum

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