NEXT GENERATION MEDICINE:
CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOUR HEALTH

with Kristie Ebi, Ph.D.

Climate change is already affecting our health, livelihoods and ecosystems in ways that are making our lives more challenging. This past June the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics asked the federal government and other leaders to recognize climate change as a health emergency. The cumulative impact across our communities and across our planet makes the climate crisis a major public health issue of the 21st century.

Climate change affects the social and environmental determinants of health - clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food and secure shelter. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause conservatively 250,000 deaths per year from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea and heat stress. Food scarcity caused by climate change could result in 500,000 deaths by 2050. Locally, issues from wildfire smoke can severely affect the young, elderly and patients with respiratory issues such as asthma.

Please join us on Thursday, October 3 at 6:30 p.m. for a free lecture to learn more about the obvious and not-so-obvious ways climate change could be affecting our health. Dr. Kristie Ebi, a professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and of Global Health at the UW, is an expert on this topic. She will share the opportunities available today to help mitigate the projected impacts of climate change on our health locally and globally. 

When: Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. (doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
Where: The John J. Hemmingson Center, 702 E. Desmet Ave., Gonzaga University campus, Spokane

Admission is free. Register today at UWMedicine.org/NextGenMed