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The World Health Organization's Strategy on Climate Change and Health
April 22, 2009 • 1:30 – 2:30 pm EDT
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) held a discussion with Dr. María Neira, Director of the Department of Public Health and the Environment, World Health Organization (WHO), on recent efforts by the WHO to develop a strategy for addressing the health effects of climate change. Dr. Neira provided a preview of the WHO’s upcoming report titled “Climate Change and Health,” to be released at the sixty-second World Health Assembly on May 18-27, 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Senior Fellow and Director, Immunizations and Health Systems Resilience, Global Health Policy Center