Environment, Climate and Health: Part 4

Описание: As part of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation Climate Change Series, the Foundation co-hosted the 2008 Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) Foundation Day Lecture. Titled Environment, Climate and Health: An Expanded Public Health Research and Policy Agenda for the 21st Century, the lecture was delivered by Prof Anthony J McMichael, NHMRC Australia Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University, Canberra. The first lecture in the climate change series was delivered by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for the India launch of the 'Breaking The Climate Deadlock' initiative.

The PHFI Foundation Day Lecture each year focuses on a public health area of great national and global importance, to be delivered by a distinguished leader in the field. During the period 1993--2007, Prof Antony McMichael played a central role in the scientific work of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment of health impacts.

Climate changes and health are inextricably linked. Climate conditions affect human well-being both directly, through the physical effects of climatic extremes, and, indirectly through influences on the levels of pollution in the air, on the agriculture, marine and freshwater systems that provide food and water and on the vectors that cause infectious diseases such as Malaria, Dengue, Kala Azar and Filaria.