May 21, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
(followed by a networking coffee)
Climate change is not just an environmental crisis; it is a public health emergency. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and shifting disease patterns are placing unprecedented stress on health systems and disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Strengthening adaptation and resilience is now essential to safeguarding human well-being.
This symposium brings together global experts to advance international cooperation on climate health, moving beyond crisis response toward proactive resilience-building. Key themes include climate health ethics, planetary health, and the interconnected well-being of human populations and the planet itself. Through discussions balancing scientific rigor with real-world implementation, the event will explore advanced meteorology modeling, effective early warning systems, health co-benefits of climate action, and strategies from emerging AI-driven health surveillance to community-based adaptation—ensuring no population is left behind. By fostering collaboration across organizations and regions, the symposium will provide a platform to integrate health into climate adaptation policies, offering tools to measure health outcomes in local contexts and achieve shared goals for a resilient future.
Director-General Emeritus of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Founding Dean of Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Vice Dean, Professor Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
Program Director of Planetary Health Alliance Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Senior One Health Scientist Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Vice President, Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
Assistant Director, Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy, Tsinghua University
Director and Head of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health World Health Organization Western Pacific Region
International Editor, Head of Scholarly Comment The British Medical Journal (BMJ)
Associate Professor
Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University
Co-lead Global Health Ethics & Governance Unit World Health Organization (WHO)
Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization World Health Organization (WHO)
Associate Professor Department of Global Environmental Health, Graduate School of Medicine at University of Tokyo
Tsinghua University Vanke School of Public Health (VSPH)
The Vanke School of Public Health at Tsinghua University, established on April 2, 2020, is a strategic response to global health trends and national health demands. Emphasizing integration, internationalization, and excellence, the School leverages Tsinghua’s multidisciplinary strengths to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration and innovative training models. It focuses on four core areas: public health security, holistic health, health big data, and health policy and management. With a primary focus on graduate education, the School aims to become a leading hub for talent cultivation, interdisciplinary innovation, policy support for “Healthy China,” and a model of global health governance.
To get more information : https://vsph.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/gywm/Overview.htm
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Established in 2006 by the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE), the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) is a Swiss not-for-profit initiative that brings together a diverse range of stakeholders to discuss and address global health challenges.
The GHF plays a pivotal role in the global health landscape, as a neutral and inclusive platform, fostering dialogue and collaboration among key players in the field, including policymakers, representatives from academia, civil society, and the private sector.
Its core mission is to facilitate constructive dialogue among these global health actors, which, in turn, contributes to the improvement of health policies and access to care worldwide. The Geneva Health Forum proudly collaborates with some of the most prominent international organizations based in Geneva.
