Description:

Health adaptation aims to protect population health from climate variability and change, and to strengthen health systems to increase preparedness of health care and public health infrastructure to climate-related hazards. Modifications to policies and programs are needed to more effectively manage the multiple, simultaneous challenges that individuals, communities, and health systems will experience over coming decades. To be effective in protecting population health, adaptation plans should incorporate strategies to manage the upstream drivers of adverse health outcomes, explicitly incorporating management of uncertainties. The session will highlight lessons learned and best practices in health adaptation.