Program
Thursday, 23rd June 2022
Link to the video on youtube
Location: Lecture Hall, Head clinic and historical grand lecture hall
| 9:00 | Bernhard Eitel, Rector of Heidelberg University | |
| 09:15 | Till Bärnighausen, Joacim Rocklöv, Rainer Sauerborn, HIGH | |
| Keynotes | ||
| 10:00 | Michelle Williams, Dean, Harvard Chan School of Public Health | |
| 10:20 | Sir Andy Haines, former Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Check on video transfer (VC) | |
| 10:40 | Osman Sankoh, Director, National Statistics Sierra Leone, former director of INDEPTH network | |
11:00 – 11:30 Refreshment break | ||
Session 1: Adapting health care to climate change impacts
Session chair: Ina Danquah, HIGH
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
| 11:30-11:45 | Climate projections in the aftermath of COP26 commitments | Sylvie Joussaume, |
| 11:45-12:00 | Public health and climate: has done well, could do better | Alistair Woodward, |
| 12:00-12:15 | Linking climate and health-cohort data in Africa for research, early warning and policy | Ali Sié, |
| 12:15-12:30 | Can weather-indexed crop insurance stabilize farmers’ livelihood in African smallholder families? | Manuela De Allegri, HIGH |
| 12:30-13:00 | Panel Discussion | Ina Danquah, moderator |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 2: Climate resilient health systems
Session chair: Kris Ebi, Washington University
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:15 | Climate change and the need for intersectoral action | Göran Tomson, Karolinska Institutet |
| 14:15-14:30 | Size and composition of the health sector’s carbon footprint– an international comparison | Ann-Maria Fuhrmann Health Care without Harm |
| 14:30-14:45 | Climate migration as stress for health systems? | Kira Vinke, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin |
| 14:45-15:00 | Reducing the carbon footprint of the Heidelberg Univ. Hospital: will it generate health co-benefits? | Alina Herrmann, HIGH Ina Danquah, HIGH |
| 15:00-15:15 | Panel Discussion | Kris Ebi, moderator |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Refreshment break |
Session 3: Vaccine and health system responses to pandemics
Session chair: Till Bärnighausen, HIGH
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 15:45-16:00 | Changes in global cancer patterns, are they impacted by climate change? | Allan Balmain, UCSF, California |
| 16:00-16:15 | Non-pharmaceutical (public health) COVID interventions: meta-analysis of their effectiveness | Mrinank Sharma, Oxford University |
| 16:15-16:30 | Human and veterinary pandemics: an agenda for cooperation in research and policy | Knauf, Sascha Friedrich-Löffler-Institut, Riems |
| 16:30-16:45 | Panel discussion | Till Bärnighausen, HIGH moderator |
23.6.2022 Transfer to Alte Aula (Old Auditorium) | ||
Evening event at the historical grand auditorium with doctoral and master students
18:30-20:30
Prof. Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany (confirmed, by VC)
Keynote: The COVID pandemic, the long way from science to policy and back
Prof. Williams, Dean of the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA (confirmed)
Keynote: Challenges and opportunities for promoting young scientists in global cooperation
Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi, India
Keynote: Global health system challenges from the joint effect of climate change & pandemics
Drs. Özlem Türeci and Uğur Şahin, Founders of BioNTech, Mainz, t.b.c. (confirmed, by VC)
Keynote: Perspectives of novel approaches to vaccine development for future pandemics
Evans, Srinath Reddy, Alistair, Kris Ebi
Reception in the Rector’s Bel Étage
Friday, 24th June 2022
LINK TO THE VIDEO ON YOUTUBE
Session 4: Health System Response
Session chair: Göran Tomson, Karolinska Institutet
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Climate change and pandemics compound the existing health care inequities in Ghana | Faith Agbozo, Ghana |
| 9:15-9:30 | Which health system functions need priority strengthening for facing future pandemics? | Yodi Mahandradhata, Gadjah Mada Univ., Indonesia |
| 9:30-9:45 | Pandemic preparedness and control in India: the case of COVID19 | Srinath Reddy, Public Health Foundation India |
| 9:45-10:00 | National health system preparedness for climate change in England | Revati Phalkey, Public Health England |
| 10:00-10:15 | What climate impacts on health need to be adapted to in Bangladesh? | Malabika Sarker, BRAC University, Bangladesh |
| 10:15-10:30 | What climate impacts on health need to be adapted to in Sub Saharan Africa? | Ali Sié, Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna, Burkina Faso |
| 10:30-11:00 | Panel Discussion | Göran Tomson, moderator |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Refreshment break |
Session 5: Early warning systems
Session chair: Joacim Rocklöv, HIGH
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 11:45-12:00 | Challenges and research needs to develop climate- early warning systems for health systems | Kris Ebi, Univ. of Washington |
| 12:00-12:15 | Climate change increases cross-species viral transmission risk: the case for an early warning system. | Colin Carson, Georgetown University, USA |
| 12:15-12:30 | Early warning system for Vibriosis in the Baltic Sea | Joacim Rocklöv, HIGH & Inst. f. Interdis Scient.Computing, HD |
| 12:30-12:45 | Sustainable digital pandemic preparedness & response: Open-source Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System | Gérard Krause, (VC) Helmholtz Center for Infectious Diseases, Braunschweig |
| 12:45-13:15 | Navigating the corona pandemic crisis and beyond: How can apps empower the individual and support public health services? | Justus Benzler, Robert Koch Institut |
| 12:45-13:15 | Panel Discussion | Joacim Rocklöv, moderator |
| 13:15-14:00 | Lunch break |
Session 6: Communicating science to policy and public: best practices and failures
Session chair: Detlev Ganten, Charité
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:15 | Communicating facts to policy-makers & the public: 2 years of leadership experience with COVID | Lothar Wieler, Robert Koch Institute |
| 14:15-14:30 | How to break bad news to the public and policymakers in a positive way? Check on video transfer | Eckart von Hirschhausen, VC TV series director, comedian |
| 14:30-14:45 | Communicating politicized science – a cognitive perspective | Helen Fischer, Leibniz Institute for Knowledge & Media, Tübingen, Germany |
| 14:45-15:00 | Positive framing works – in the communication of COVID and climate change | Katharina von Knop, Digital Trust Analytics GmbH, Berlin |
| 15:00-15:15 | New metrics to measure the societal impact of scientific papers | Marc Lerchenmüller, Mannheim University, Germany |
| 15:15-15:30 | MOOCs: a tool for massive dissemination of science to the public and decision-makers, bridging the digital North—South divide? | Caroline Mol, edX Europe (an offshoot of Harvard edX) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Panel discussion | Detlev Ganten, moderator |
| 16:00 -16:30 | Refreshment break |
Session 7: Towards a research agenda and policy recommendation to strengthen health services to face both pandemics and climate change
Session chairs: Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle, HIGH and, HIGH
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 16:30-16:50 | Summary of panels’ conclusions for research gaps and questions (3` each) | Chairs of all sessions |
| 16:50-17:30 | Discussion and next steps, ideas for joint research proposals | Moderators: Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle with Rainer Sauerborn Till Bärnighausen, Joacim Rocklöv |
Transfer by bus and funicular to dinner venue.
Gala dinner, historical restaurant Molkenkur above the Castle (by invitation onlyonly, dress code: cocktail or (preferred) traditional attire)
19:30-24:00
Dinner speeches:
Hans Jochen Diesfeld (90 years) (VC):
From Tropical Hygiene to Global Health: the various conceptual molts of the Institute 1962-1997
Osman Sankoh (55 years)
“Hybrid Eyes”: looking at the things with a “Northern” and a “Southern” lens
Raissa Sorgho (25 years) (VC):
Pandemics and Climate Change: Our generation’s future is at stake!
Saturday, 25th June 2022
Link to the video on youtube
Parallel session 8a: COVID models and climate change models: differences and similarities
Session chair: Paul Wilkinson, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | A German COVID model | Meyer-Hermann, Helmholtz Center for Infectious Diseases |
| 9:15-9:30 | A British COVID model | Marc Baguelin, Imperial College, London, UK |
| 9:30-9:45 | Climate mitigation scenarios with persistent COVID-related energy demand changes | Jarmo Kikstra, IAASA, Laxenburg, Austria |
| 9:45-10:00 | ISIMIP-health – the need to have inter-sectoral and intercomparison models | Katja Frieler, PIK Joacim Rocklöv, HIGH |
| 10:00-10:15 | Modeling additional heat impacts in Africa based on empirical research data | Hanss-C. Gunga, Charité, Katja Frieler & Fred Hattermann, PIK |
| 10:15-10:30 | Projections of climate impact on child undernutrition and of the effectiveness of adaptation interventions in Burkina Faso – the importance of empirical data | Paul Wilkinson & Kristine Belesova LSHTM, Christoph Gornott, PIK, |
| 10:30-11:30 | Discussion: Any cross-fertilization about structure and use of the different models? | Paul Wilkinson, LSHTM, moderator |
Parallel Session 8b Innovative ways of training global young scientists on the double burden
Session chair: Osman Sankoh, Sierra Leone, Former Director of the INDEPTH network
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | MOOCs-10 years after: a tool for massive dissemination to the public and decision-makers | Caroline Mol, HarvardX |
| 9:15-9:30 | Research Training for Global Health and Climate change – a US-European collaboration project | Wafaie Fawzi, Harvard Africa Center |
| 9:30-9:45 | E-learning formats on climate change and health for higher education, health staff and policy makers | Sandra Barteit, HIGH Alina Hermann, HIGH |
| 9:45-10:00 | Are leadership-oriented doctoral programs a new arrow in our quiver of teaching formats? | Peter Berman, University of British Columbia, Canada |
| 10:00-10:15 | McGill’s offers of courses on climate change and on pandemics | Tim Evans, McGill University, Canada |
| 10:15-10:30 | From Oral dehydration discovery to teaching global health in South Asia and Harvard – lessons learnt. | Richard Cash, Harvard |
| 10:30-10:45 | Teaching young scientists in Kenya | Erick Muok, Stephen Munga, KEMRI-Kisumu, Kenya |
| 10:45-11:00 | Teaching in the times of COVID: are there any positive lessons to be carried beyond the pandemic? | Olaf Horstick, Anna Munz, HIGH |
| 11:00-11:30 | Panel Discussion | Osman Sankoh, moderator |
| 13:00 | Farewell and end of symposium |