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Title: GEO and Health 8th Brazilian Congress on Collective Health 11th World Congress on Public Health


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GEO and Health8th Brazilian Congress on
Collective Health 11th World Congress on Public
Health
  • Dr. Brendan P. Kelly
  • GEO Secretariat

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Outline
  • GEO approach to the Societal Benefit Area of
    Health
  • (As Dr. Spinrad has mentioned, the role of Earth
    Observations in the area of Health has not been
    fully establishedtherefore the GEO approach is
    to co-ordinate demonstration projects which will
    increase awareness of importance of EO)
  • Describe current GEO Health activities and give
    examples of major on-going demonstration projects
  • Health and Climate Partership for Africa
  • US-Europe collaboration on Ecosystems,
    Biodiversity and Health
  • Air Quality and Health Community of Practise
    (Also one for Water)
  • Outline future plans - present opportunities for
    increased engagement and timelines for potential
    involvement (for countries already in GEO and new
    members)

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Demonstration projects in the GEO 2006 Work Plan
(Example 1)
  • HEALTH-06-03 integrating Earth observations,
    health and epidemiological as well as
    socio-economic data. use of advanced ensemble
    forecasting methods to predictability of major
    health hazards .
  • Two major projects

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Health and Climate Partnership for
AfricaUsing Meteorological Information to
Mitigate Health Epidemics
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Organizational and Operational Activities
  • Develop training materials for health and
    meteorological communities
  • Identify the needs of operational public health
    community in West Africa for weather and climate
    information
  • Establish a health requirements process

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Organizational and Operational Activities
  • Determine the adequacy of the current
    institutional mechanisms
  • To deliver health-climate information to
    decision-makers
  • To deliver information to the public and
  • To share information between the climate and
    health communities

Limites climatiques de la zone dépidémies de
paludisme
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Why link ecosystems, biodiversity and
health?(World Health Organisation M.E.A.)
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Demonstration projects in the GEO 2006 Work Plan
(Example 3) Air Quality Health Community of
Practice
The Public Public Officials
Gary Foley, US EPA
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Impacts of Poor Air Quality on Society US
Estimates
  • 60,000 deaths per annum (mean) Science 289,
    2000
  • 143 billion per annum (mean) American Lung
    Association, 2001

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The Atmospheric Observation Community
  • Ground-based AQ monitoring networks
  • Satellite measurements
  • Groups working on "fusion of data"
  • Researchers developing new observation
    methodologies

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The Operational Forecasting Community
  • Air Quality forecasters
  • Atmospheric AQ model developers

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The Air Quality Managers
  • Air Quality Index operations
  • Air Quality regulatory officials
  • Regulated industrial groups
  • Traffic planning management groups
  • Forest agricultural fire management officials
  • AQ management decision support tool developers

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The Public Health Officials
  • Public Health outcome officials
  • Epidemiologists
  • Hospital Emergency Room management groups
  • Asthma, birth defect and cardiovascular disease
    researchers

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The Hazard Alerting Community
  • Air Quality Index operations
  • Public Health outcome officials
  • Wireless internet service providers
  • The media

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Proposed new GEO Workplan Items
  • HE-07-P1 Strengthen observation and information
    systems for health
  • HE-07-P2 Environment and health monitoring and
    modelling
  • HE-07-P3 Integrated atmospheric pollution
    monitoring, modelling and forecasting

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Need for global and national systems
  • Need for effective and coordinated national and
    global surveillance systems that can
  • track, monitor the spread of diseases across
    communities and across geo-political borders
  • guide the planning and targeting of response,
    containment and control measures to areas most at
    risk
  • support risk assessment and preparedness
    activities.

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Example Avian influenza-Early detection,
response and containment
  • Assessing and tracking the risk and spread of the
    disease across communities and borders
  • Epidemiological mapping of cases in humans in
    relation to risk factors
  • Mapping risk factors (poultry densities, flight
    routes of migratory birds, swamps, wetlands,
    etc.) and relationships in time and place
  • Identifying countries at risk of importation of
    the virus
  • Pinpointing areas where surveillance should be
    intensified and identifying populations at great
    risk of exposure
  • Identifying health services, labs, schools,
    workplaces to support targeting of drugs,
    equipment, surge capacity

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GEO Workplan Timeline
  • 2007-2009 draft workplan is under official review
    by member governments
  • Final workplan to be ratified at GEO plenary
    meeting at end of November, 2006
  • Members choose which tasks they wish to lead, or
    contribute to
  • If you would like more information on the GEO
    health workplan and about how to get involved,
    contact me at
  • bkelly_at_geosec.org
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