European Health Forum Gastein 2022: The health impacts of the climate crisis

The European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG) will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2022 and take stock of the substantial accomplishments in public health over the last quarter century. EHFG will also look forward and discuss the challenges and policy options for action urgently needed across sectors, borders, and disciplines at this watershed moment for health, security, and solidarity. That creates a window of opportunity to co-create a true European Health Union. Session S4 on 'The health impacts of the climate crisis: New tools to support European action' (27 September) will discuss current needs and actions to estimate the scale and impact of the health risks resulting from the ongoing changes in environmental health determinants associated to climate change. How can current policy initiatives and research efforts at the European level provide the needed evidence, tools and frameworks to answer to the serious threat climate change poses to human health? You are invited to join this session to reflect and discuss existing approaches and future opportunities to address the climate crisis.