This Commission meeting, Under the Weather: The Nexus of Climate Change and Biodefense, will be held on Thursday, December 5, 2024 at 58 East 68th St., New York, NY 10065. The focus of this meeting will be to provide the Bipartisan Commission on Biodefense with a better understanding of: 1) the effects of climate change on human health and one health, 2) the future implications of migration and shifting disease patterns, and 3) policy considerations to reduce the inevitable impacts of climate change on biodefense.
More information will be provided as the event date approaches.
We hope you will be able to join us in New York City for this meeting.
Speakers include:
- Vanessa Kerry, MD MSc – Special Envoy for Climate Change and Health, World Health Organization; Chief Executive Officer, Seed Global Health; Director, Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- CDR Matthew Kasper, PhD – Branch Chief, Global Emerging Infections Surveillance, Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division, Defense Health Agency, Department of Defense
- Juli Trtanj, MSc – Director, Climate and Health Program Office; One Health Lead; Executive Director,
National Integrated Heat Health Information System; National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration - Gwen Collman, PhD – Director, Office of Scientific Coordination Planning and Evaluation, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Strategic Advisor, NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative, National Institutes of Health
- Jessica E. Metcalf, PhD – Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; Co-Director, Program in Global Health and Health Policy, Princeton University
- Rachel Elizabeth Baker, PhD – John and Elizabeth Irving Family Assistant Professor of Climate Health, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University
- William B. Karesh, DVM – President, One Health Concepts
- Ashwin Vasan, MD PhD – Former Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH MBA – Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia Climate School; Adjunct Associate Professor of Climate, Columbia Climate School
- Ann Kurth, PhD, MPH, MSN, CNM, FAAN – President, New York Academy of Medicine
The meeting will NOT be live-streamed.
Event Details
Date: Thursday December 5, 2024
Time: 9:30am-3:00pm (lunch will be provided)
Location: 58 East 68th St., New York, NY 10065
Add to your calendar – Thursday, December 4, 2024, 9:30am-3:00pm