Climate Emergency and Global Paediatric Health

23.Oct - 23. Oct, 2024 Cod. W15-24

We are aware that the climate emergency is already directly impacting our lives. We should also be aware that it is affecting and will affect our health as well; and that children will suffer the worst consequences, particularly those who are born today in the poorest countries.

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Description

We will discuss the major consequences of climate change on children's health, and its effects on paediatric health, in general, and more specifically on children from low-income countries.

Activity directed to

All public

Program

23-10-2024

18:00 - 19:15

“Emergencia climática y salud pediátrica global“

Quique Bassat Orellana | Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona - Médico, especializado en Pediatría Medicina Tropical y Epidemiología

Eva Caballero kazetariak hizlariarekin elkarrizketa izango du hitzaldia amaitutakoan / La periodista Eva Caballero mantendrá un diálogo con el ponente una vez finalizada la conferencia

Speakers

Quique Bassat Orellana

Doctor, specialised in Paediatrics, Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology

Doctor, specialised in Paediatrics (Barcelona 2004), Tropical Medicine (Barcelona University, 2004) and Epidemiology (London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, London 2007-08). Doctorate (PhD) in Medicine from Barcelona University (Title: “Malaria in the paediatric wards of a rural Mozambican hospital and the clinical development of new antimalarial drugs”, Barcelona, 2009). ICREA Research Professor (since 2017) at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal). General Manager of the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (ISGlobal), since January 2024. As a paediatrician, with special interest in the epidemiology of infectious diseases and global public health, I have always sought to combine my clinical work with biomedical research into those diseases that most affect the most vulnerable.