Next ISSOP climate change webinar featuring Editor of BMJ

25 July, 2021

Dear CHIFA members

The sixth ISSOP webinar on climate change and child health will be on Thursday/Friday this week (29th-30th July), Thursday for the global West and Friday for the global East.

The flyer can be found here

https://www.issop.org/2021/07/12/issop-climate-change-webinar-6-flyer/

and the speakers will be

Dr Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of the BMJ and Dr Richard Jackson from the school of public health in California speaking on the GLobal, Political and Economic Impact of climate change - Advocacy and Action.

At 5pm GMT on Thursday 29th July for global West and 3.30 am GMT for global East

(Use time converter for local time)

Registration for Asia-Pacific participants:https://ufhjax.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtde2grzMrHNxhQnX8ttUw5yc5d_K8...

Registration for participants in all other global regions: https://ufhjax.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdu-rqj4vE9R7PSjXVhid3bvFusWW...

The webinar will be followed as usual by regional breakout rooms lasting an hour.

French and Spanish recordings will be available on the day.

Tony Waterston

CHIFA profile: Tony Waterston is a retired consultant paediatrician who worked mainly in the community in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He spent 6 years working in Zambia and Zimbabwe and directed the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Diploma in Palestinian Child Health teaching programme in the occupied Palestinian territories. He was an Editor of the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics and is on the Executive Committee of the International Society for Social Pediatrics. His academic interests are child poverty, advocacy for child health and children's rights. He is currently the lead moderator of CHIFA (HIFA's sister forum on child health and rights). He is also a member of the HIFA Steering Group.

Tony.Waterston AT newcastle.ac.uk