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On the International day of clean air for blue skies, Health Care Without Harm is sharing a dossier for health professionals on the impacts of air pollution on health.
The dossier contains information compiled from various sources and aims to build the knowledge and capacity of health professionals. It highlights the importance of health professional advocacy around air pollution and provides useful tips that health professionals can adopt in their engagement on the issue.
This new initiative will coordinate and implement actions around the commitments on climate resilient and low carbon sustainable health systems adopted by countries during the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.
Health Care Without Harm participated in a side event that presented the updates of the COP26 Health and Climate Programme.
On May 28, join the webinar Resolving South Asia’s clean air and health crisis: Phasing out fossil fuels for clean air, co-organized by Health Care Without Harm. On this session, panelists will discuss the link between air pollution and health in South Asia, and design interventions for the transition to a sustainable, fossil fuel-free future.
In a significant step forward, G7 health ministers declared their aim “to build environmentally sustainable and climate-neutral health systems at the latest by 2050 and to support other countries in this effort.”
These exciting new jobs are an opportunity to help shape the health sector’s decarbonization, sustainability and equity agenda in dozens of countries and at a global level. The ideal candidate will have the skills and drive to form relationships and coalitions that help drive transformational systems change. These positions are also an opportunity to work with an amazing, diverse, and committed team of people from every continent who make up Health Care Without Harm's Global Network.
The Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA) and the Latin American Center of Excellence in Climate Change and Health (CLIMA), in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Salud sin Daño (Health Care Without Harm), the Lancet Regional Health - Americas, the Planetary Health Chilean Society (SoChiSap) and the Children's Environmental Health Committee of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics (SOCHIPE), are pleased to convene the presentation of the viewpoint article “Code Red for health response in Latin America and the Caribbean”, writte
Josh Karliner was interviewed by the Ikea Foundation and discussed the different initiatives Health Care Without Harm has to mobilize the health sector for climate action.
Over the last two years, we have seen the health care sector and health care professionals standing with bravery and perseverance on the front lines of the pandemic to treat and protect their communities. While serving in this demanding and difficult time, hospitals, health systems and health care facilities around the world are remaining steadfast and elevating their commitments and efforts to address an unparalleled threat to public and environmental health: climate change.
As one of three partners of the COP26 Health Programme, together with the COP26 Presidency and the World Health Organization, Health Care Without Harm has been working to encourage countries to develop climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems. On November 9, 2021, at the COP26, 50 countries announced their commitment. Josh Karliner, International Director of Program and Strategy of Health Care Without Harm, explains the significance of these health care climate actions and this historic moment.
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