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Climate Change and Health Services: Professional and Organizational Adaptation

Tue, 03/11/2009 - 17:00 - 18:00
Webcast

Join contributors from The Health Practioner’s Guide to Climate Change– the first book to set out what health practitioners can do to prevent the worst impacts of climate change – for the second Earthcast examining practical solutions that can be implemented from the individual to the organizational level.

Jenny Griffiths, David Pencheon, Clive Blair-Stevens and Giovanni Leonardi will look at how health professionals and organizations can adapt their practices to the challenges posed by climate change and what they can do to prepare for the health effects of climate change.

Jenny Griffiths is a former health service manager and chief executive who now works independently, David Pencheon is Director of the UK's NHS Sustainable Development Unit, Clive Blair-Stevens is Deputy Director of the National Social Marketing Centre and Giovanni Leonardi is a Consultant Environmental Epidemiologist at the UK's Health Protection Agency and an Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

FREE DOWNLOAD: Read Chapter 2 of The Health Practitioner’s Guide to Climate Change ahead of the Earthcast.

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