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Title: Research to leverage public health interventions to address adaptation to climate change'


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Research to leverage public health interventions
to address adaptation to climate change.
  • Dr Saqib Shahab
  • Community Medicine Program, University of Alberta
  • Bamako, 17 November 2008

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Acknowledgements
  • Dr Abdul Ghaffar RA, EMRO, WHO
  • Professor Stephen Matlin, and the Global Forum
    for Health Research
  • Strengthening the base preparing health research
    for climate change
  • Strengthening the base innovation and
    convergence in climate change and public health

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Aim
  • How can research
  • inform and assist public health
  • at the operational and policy level
  • in the face of current and impending significant
    climate change

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IPCC 2007
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Objectives
  • Identify commonalities in climate change and
    public and environmental health research and
    intervention.
  • Discuss how integrating climate change, public
    health and environmental sustainability can have
    a synergistic impact.

6
Finding entry points for action and navigating
dichotomies
NORTH
SOUTH
7
The 10/90 gap and need for innovative strategies
  • The 10/90 gap in research and intervention in
    climate change.
  • The 10/90 gap in research and intervention in
    public health.
  • Innovative strategies for research in climate
    change and public health.

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An un equal burden- mortality from climate change
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Climate change will contribute only a small
portion initially to overall preventable deaths
Stern 2006, WHO
10
Shahab Global Forum Health Research 2008
11
Application of research and interventions
Shahab Global Forum Health Research 2008
12
Is research enough?
Shahab Global Forum Health Research 2008
13
Where to begin? Primary vs. secondary vs.
tertiary prevention
Shahab Global Forum Health Research 2008
14
Public health approach
  • Think global, act local
  • Be inter sectoral
  • Engage academia, government, civil society and
    communities
  • Minimize contradictory messaging, duplication and
    wastage of resources.

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Three key points
  • Climate change should be an integral part of
    public health planning.
  • Partnering with a wide variety of stakeholders,
    as appropriate, is essential.
  • Climate change research to minimize public health
    impacts needs to be multidisciplinary, applicable
    to local contexts, and sustainable.

Shahab Global Forum Update on Research for Health
2008
16
Incorporate climate change health impacts into
public health planning
  • Estimate current and future impacts of climate
    change when planning public health interventions
  • For each public health intervention- assess if
    there will be an impact of climate change- and
    adjust for that.
  • Climate change should be one of the variables
    when estimating the impact and outcomes of public
    health interventions.

Shahab Global Forum Update on Research for Health
2008
17
Partner with stakeholders
  • Partner with other stakeholders outside the
    health sector.
  • Continue to advocate for mitigation as the
    ultimate goal to address climate change.
  • Maximize the diffusion of innovations through
    civil society and the internet.
  • Incorporate climate change mitigation and
    adaptation in intra- and inter-sectoral planning.

Shahab Global Forum Update on Research for Health
2008
18
Support innovation, collaboration and knowledge
translation in research
  • Trans-disciplinary research funding.
  • Knowledge translation and collaboration
  • Surveillance systems that monitor the impact of
    climate change as an integral part of health
    status and assessment.
  • Research translated into locally relevant, cost
    effective and sustainable interventions.

Shahab Global Forum Update on Research for Health
2008
19
Urgent public health steps required NOW
  • Protection and assurance of water supplies and
    sanitation
  • Control for vector-borne diseases
  • Health education and promotion, especially
    related to thermal stress.
  • Inter sectoral approaches for improving
    environment, food security and alleviating poverty

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Additional public health co benefits of
incorporating climate change issues in health,
environment, industry, urban planning
  • Public transit systems-Improved air quality
  • Healthy local diets and physical activity
  • Increased social cohesion in the built
    environment
  • Sustainable and greener manufacturing and reuse /
    recycling

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Pragmatic approach
  • Invest in public health now AND climate change
    adaptation / mitigation for the future
  • Hope and advocate for the best, plan and prepare
    for the worst
  • Investments in public health are beneficial
    irrespective of the climate change trajectory
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