Webinar: Right to health, public health and climate change
20th February 2024, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. (London). 15:00-17:00 (Geneva)
Climate change is a public health emergency. It is the single biggest threat to global health, peace, and security, a crisis multiplier, and a significant driver of health inequalities. Human right-based approaches are essential for good public health policies and practice, including action to address climate change.
This webinar is the first in a series offered by the Faculty of Public Health (UK), UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Geneva, Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), Groningen Centre for Health Law, EUPHA and other partners to build understanding, competence and capacity on human rights-based approaches for good public health policy and practice.
The session will include presentation by Alicia El Yamin, distinguished scholar, author and advocate from Harvard University, with Maja Groff, international lawyer based in the Hague and Convenor, Climate Governance Commission, Marlies Hesselman, from the University of Groningen Centre for Law, and Benjamin Schachter, Human rights Officer at OCHR, as discussants and Panelists.
For further information, please contact PHELnetwork@gmail.com