London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

As COP30 takes place in Belém, join LSHTM for a special lunchtime panel exploring how Brazil is advancing climate adaptation and strengthening health resilience in the face of a changing climate.

This event brings together senior leaders from Brazil’s Ministry of Health and academic experts to discuss progress on the Belém Health Action Plan for the adaptation of the health sector to climate change, national strategies for climate-related health emergencies, and the legal frameworks enabling action and decarbonisation. Together, they will highlight how health systems can adapt to protect people and the planet – and what lessons Brazil’s experience offers the global community.

The event will involve short presentations from the panel, followed by a discussion with opportunities for questions from the audience.

Join us to hear directly from experts shaping climate adaptation in Brazil - from policy to practice, law to public health.

Speakers

Sir Andy Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

Sir Andy Haines is co-Chair of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission and broader Wellcome Trust-funded Pathfinder Initiative, and Chief Scientific Advisor of the newly launched WHO Pan-European Commission on climate and health. He has chaired and been a member of many international committees, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second, third and fifth assessment exercises.

Professor Haines will be welcoming and introducing the panel at this event.

Dr Guillierme Chervenski Figueira, Coordenação-Geral de Mudanças Climáticas e Equidade em Saúde (CGClima), Ministry of Health Brazil

Dr Guillierme Chervenski Figueira works in the Coordenação-Geral de Mudanças Climáticas e Equidade em Saúde (CGClima - General Coordination of Climate Change and Health Equity) in the Ministry of Health Brazil, and is a Public Health Physician in the Brazilian Company of Hospital Services (EBSERH).

Dr Chervenski Figueira will present on: Policy updates from the Belém Adaptation Plan

Dr Raquel Proença, Ministry of Health Brazil

Dr Raquel Proença currently serves as Technical-Scientific Advisor at the Department of Public Health Emergencies of the Secretariat of Health and Environmental Surveillance, in the Ministry of Health of Brazil. She is a public health professional with a PhD and Master's degree in Epidemiology by the Federal and Sate University of Rio de Janeiro.

Dr Proença will present on: Responding to climate-related health emergencies

Dr Tiffanie Chan, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Tiffanie Chan is a Policy Analyst at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on climate law and governance – with current projects exploring climate framework legislation and the impacts of corporate climate litigation. Tiffanie is also a dual-qualified lawyer in England and Wales, and Hong Kong. 

Dr Chan will present on: Global trends in climate litigation and legislation to enable climate adaptation

Dr Fiammetta Bozzani, LSHTM

Dr Fiammetta Bozzani is an Assistant Professor and health economist at LSHTM, based in Lusaka, Zambia. Her work seeks to inform priority setting for primary health care and health system strengthening in low-resource settings. Dr Bozzani is part of the REACH project, which uses system science methods to determine maternal and child health (MCH) system vulnerability to floods and heatwaves, and to identify, cost and evaluate adaptation interventions to enhance MCH outcomes.

Dr Bozzani will present on: Understanding how adaptation interventions address health system vulnerabilities: a review of global evidence and lessons from case studies in Brazil and Zambia from the REACH project

Event notices

• Please note that this event is virtual only
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