Rewatch Summit Sessions

Many of the disease outbreaks most associated with flooding could be prevented with existing and emerging tools if they were deployed as part of a coordinated package to areas most at risk. Watch Paul Gunstensen, Global Safe Water Director of Evidence Action, Aysu Uygur, Strategy Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Emma Maynard, Research Manager for Infections & Climate of Wellcome Trust explore the questions: Which interventions would make the most effective combined preventative intervention? What kind of centralized resource could support local governments in designing and implementing it? Moderated by Colleen Connell, Managing Director of the Health Finance Coalition

The global health community has an immediate opportunity to increase its voice in the fight against climate change, leveraging mounting evidence of growing mortality and morbidity rates as an incentive for greater government action to reduce carbon emissions, and communicating consensus opinion about the most important policy decisions and investment areas to protect human health from further harm. Watch Yacine Djibo, Founder & Executive Director of Speak Up Africa, Zied Mhirsi, Senior Director, Global Health Strategies, and Ramon San Pascual – Executive Director, Health Care Without Harm SE Asia explore the question of: What is the most effective way to put health at the center of the climate debate where it belongs? Moderated by Jeni Miller - Executive Director, Global Climate and Health Alliance

A persistent initiative in Malawi to secure adaptation funds for health system adaptation offers a multifaceted case study of what will be required to mobilize new resources to avoid the devastating impacts of climate change on health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries. Watch Hendricks Mgodie of the Malawi Ministry of Health and Burcu Munyas, Program Development and Quilty Director of Save the Children explore the questions: How can evidence of harm and risk be generated in the absence of established norms and reliable data sources? Which sectors need to be engaged to design interventions that meet the diverse needs of communities at risk, while avoiding unintended consequences? Moderated by GSK Global Health Communications Manager, Evie Gray.

Changes in water cycle patterns are making it more difficult to access safe drinking water, melting permafrost may unlock long-frozen bacteria, and rising temperatures are generally correlated with increases in enteric diseases, such as E. coli-associated diarrhea. A new, cost-effective technology could enable India’s Jal Jeevan Mission to ensure safe drinking water for hundreds of millions of households.

Changes in water cycle patterns are making it more difficult to access safe drinking water, melting permafrost may unlock long-frozen bacteria, and rising temperatures are generally correlated with increases in enteric diseases, such as E. coli-associated diarrhea. A new, cost-effective technology could enable India’s Jal Jeevan Mission to ensure safe drinking water for hundreds of millions of households.