2019 Public Health Symposium
Climate Change and Health: A Call to Action
Friday November 15, 2019
8:00 AM | Registration | |
8:45 AM | Opening Remarks Alex Travis, Director, Cornell Master of Public Health Program; Professor of Reproductive Biology, Baker Institute of Animal Health | College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 5 |
9:00 AM | Keynote Andy Dobson, AD White Professor-at-Large; Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University | College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 5 |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break | CVM Atrium |
10:15 – 11:45 AM | Session I: Food, Energy, and the Environment in a time of Climate Crisis Dairy farming – a local tale with global lessons Planetary Health: Energy security and its implications on health care access, delivery, and quality in Tanzania Small Island States and the impacts of big nations; investments in infrastructure Climate projection uncertainty implications for predicting health risks Panel Q&A | College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 5 |
11:45 AM | Lunch and Poster Session | |
1:00 – 2:30 PM | Session II: The Power of Policy and Community Engagement for Climate Action On the frontlines of climate change: including indigenous and community voices in global narratives Our Experience at the CNN Climate Crisis Town Hall The Art of Science Communication: Creating community-based plays on climate change Climate Change and the need for an interdisciplinary approach to policy changes Panel Q&A | College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 5 |
2:30 PM | Coffee Break | |
3:00 PM
4:00 PM | Keynote – Hosted by the Department of Development Sociology Eating Tomorrow: The Battle for the Future of Food Reception | Zoomed to Lecture Hall 5, Live in B73 Warren Hall |
7:30 PM | The Next Storm A community-based play created by the Civic Ensemble, Cornell University, and playwright Thom Dunn ($12/$18) | Kiplinger Theater, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts |
Carbon offsets for the symposium have been purchased from the Fingerlakes Climate Fund
Sponsored by the Master of Public Health Program, Engaged Cornell and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability