1 st
KI Conference on Sustainable Development
CLIMATE CHANGE – HEALTH EFFECTS AND HOW TO PREVENT THEM
Benchmark your research against the SDGs and new funding opportunities
13.00-13.05 Welcome and introduction: Nina Rawal/Susanne Gabrielsson 13.05-13.20 Gabriel Wikström, National coordinator Agenda 2030
13.20-13.30 Ole Petter Ottersen: Strategy 2030 and SDGs at KI
13.30-14.10 Health effects of climate change – an overview: Sir Andy Haines, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 2001-2010
14.10-14.20 Daniela Strodthoff: A new KI funded call: position yourself for new funding opportunities 14.20-14.35 Research funding by the Swedish Research Council in relation to Agenda 2030
Speaker: Dan Wilhelmsson, Swedish Research Council 14.35-14.50 Nina Rawal: SDGs in innovation and investments 14.50-15.20 BREAK
Presentations and roundtable discussions:
15.20-16.30 Healthy food – healthy people – healthy planet | Chair: Mats J Olsson
Health effects of different diets. Dietary intake affects global warming – how do we change?
• Petter Brodin: How do early exposures shape the development of the infant immune system?
• Miia Kivipelto: Lifestyle factors affecting aging and dementia
• Peter Stenvinkel: Planetary health and burden of life style diseases 16.30-16.45 BREAK
Presentations and roundtable discussions:
16.45-17.55 Health effects of climate change | Chair: Tobias Alfvén
Climate change leads to reduced air quality and temperature changes, which leads to changed infection patterns, reduced health, more natural disasters and migration.
• Elisabet Lindgren: Infectious diseases and climate change
• Erik Melén: How does environmental exposures influence child health?
• Johan von Schreeb: How to deal with the unexpected
17.55-18.00 Summary and conclusions: Nina Rawal/Susanne Gabrielsson
Programme
Tuesday 17 November 2020, 13:00-18:00
| Conference facilitator: Nina RawalPhoto: Getty Images.
