Mya Sherman to present her work at the Climate and Health Summit, Lima Peru

Mya Sherman will be presenting her Master's thesis work at the 2014 Climate and Health Summit in Lima, Peru on December 6th 2014.

Organized in parallel with the 20th session of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP 20), the third annual Climate and Health Summit will raise awareness about climate change's negative effects on health and mitigation's potential to create a "cleaner, healthier and more equitable world". The Summit aims to ensure health considerations are included in negotiations toward a 2015 agreement on climate change. The Global Climate and Health Alliance, organizer of the Summit, hopes to galvanize the international health community in advance of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and COP 21 in 2015. The Summit will exhibit climate change best practices that improve public health. The event will bring together government ministers from health, development, energy and environment departments, other policy makers, technical experts, academics, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and civil society, medical and health professionals, local health and environment authorities, UN staff and youth.

Date:6 December 2014  Venue:Swissotel, Miraflores, Av. Santo Toribio 173-Via Central, Centro Embresarial Real Via Principal 150, Lima 27  Location:Lima, Peru

read more: http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/2014-climate-and-health-summit/

COP20 Side Event in Peru, December 3rd: Indigenous peoples, health and community-based monitoring systems

Co-organized with Tebtebba, the Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education, IHACC researchers will be presenting at the COP20 side event "Indigenous peoples,health, and community-based monitoring systems" in Peru.

Date: Wednesday December 3rd,2014 Time: 15:00-16:30 Room: Maranga(130)

World Resources Forum, Arequipa Peru 2014

Over 1,000 participants from 40 countries and international organizations attended the World Resources Forum 2014 in Arequipa, Peru, October 20-22, 2014. Participants from governments, business, research and civil society, including many students, exchanged their views on how to increase resource productivity, address climate change while decreasing its environmental and social burden. To read Jahir's report on his experience at the WRF 2014, click here

IHACC Adaptation Leaders Week, Peru

From September 8th to 15th members of Indigenous communities participating in IHACC research and the IHACC Peru team participated in three activities which were held in Lima: 1) Work Session on Gender and Indigenous Health related to Adaptation to Climate Change, 2) Internal Workshop of IHACC Peru and 3) National Meeting of young people for the climate change called ´TierrActiva´. The overall goal was to propose a preliminary proposal for adaptation initiatives in each of the IHACC communities. To read Jahir's report on these activities, click here

Sierra Clark presents her poster at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference, October 2nd, 2014

Undergraduate Honours student, Sierra Clark, presented her poster “The burden, determinants, and experience of Acute Gastrointestinal illness (AGI) for Indigenous Batwa-Pygmies in southwestern Uganda” at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference held October 2. Sierra was nominated by the department of Geography to present her research to a panel of judges, fellow researchers, as well as peers. Sierra’s poster comprised of her honours thesis that takes a mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to understand the burden of infectious AGI for an Indigenous Batwa population in sub-Saharan Africa.Sierra’s poster was also accepted, and presented, at The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology & Health that was held in Montreal August 2014.