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Main Speakers

Kamalesh SharmaCommonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma is one of the main speakers.

 

 

 

 

 

The meeting will be chaired by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Aging in Australia, Jan McLucas. http://www.janmclucas.net/ 

Senator McLucas was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing upon election of the Rudd Labor Government on 4 December 2007. She has a diverse portfolio of responsibilities which includes therapeutic goods and their regulation; blood and organ donation; human cloning and stem cell research; and food policy matters.

 

 

Sir Andrew HainesThe keynote speech will be given by Sir Andrew Haines, Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has been involved for the last decade in developing the evidence base for showing the effect of climate change and has played a lead role in the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes on the health impacts of climate change.

http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climate/ipcc_tar/wg2/347.htm

 

 

Professor Anthony McMichaelProfessor Anthony McMichael, member of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1993-2007), will lead a discussion on the health impacts of climate change and the adaptation and mitigation strategies that have been implemented. Professor McMichael’s primary research focus is on global climate change, environmental factors and human health – encompassing studies at local, national and international levels. His pioneering research and writing on the health risks of climate change, in the 1990s, was combined with his central role in health risk assessment for the IPCC.

http://www.climate.org/resources/climate-impacts/health/index.html