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#EUHPP Live Webinar: When the Wind Turns Toxic: Climate, Dust Storms and Lung Health

The webinar, part of a larger conversation on natural disasters, will explore the growing impact of dust storms on respiratory health in the context of a changing climate. With rising global temperatures and increasingly frequent extreme weather events, dust storms have become a pressing public health concern.

2025 European Healthcare Climate Summit

The 7th European Healthcare Climate Summit will spotlight the leading role of healthcare institutions and professionals in the climate transition, and focus on bridging the gap between climate mitigation and adaptation.

European Health Forum Gastein

Join the hybrid EHFG 2025 from 30 September - 3 October to explore how we can heal Europe’s fractured social contract for health and well-being!

Webinar: Shaping Climate-Resilient Healthcare in Europe: Through Policy and Practice

Europe’s healthcare systems are on the frontline of the climate crisis, facing more frequent floods, heatwaves, and storms that disrupt services and threaten lives. This webinar will explore how policy and practical action can and must work hand-in-hand to make healthcare climate resilient. Discover new resilience-building tools and hear a high-level discussion with policymakers and experts on how to protect health systems and public health in a changing climate.

ECDC Lighthouse Webinar: The Public as Partners: Unlocking the Potential of Citizen Science in Disease Prevention and Control

In this online session, experts Anne Sophie Gresle and Frederic Bartumeus will explore how participatory research and citizen science empowers the public to contribute to disease surveillance and prevention. From a conceptual perspective, Anne Sophie Gresle will discuss how to facilitate and incorporate the experiences of individuals into the different steps of the research cycle. Frederic Bartumeus will provide a case study showing how citizen-driven data linked to mosquito-borne diseases of significance can be used to anticipate environmental changes and health risks.

EUHPP Live Webinar: Reducing costs from air pollution and strengthening prevention

The webinar is co-organised with the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL). This will be the first of a series of webinars HEAL is organising in the fall on reducing costs from air pollution and strengthening disease prevention. The main questions tackled in this kick-off webinar are: • What are the health costs of air pollution in the EU? • What is the investment gap to tackle air pollution?

Webinar - Towards resilience and well-being: rethinking health systems in a planetary health era

This fourth webinar in the series will bring together distinguished experts and practitioners to examine how health systems can move beyond crisis response towards building long-term resilience within a wellbeing society and economy - benefiting both people and the planet. Discussions will focus on how policy-makers can strengthen health system performance in the face of adversity, ensuring essential functions continue while minimising the impact of shocks on population health.

Weather and Well-Being: Communicating Biometeorological Knowledge for Public Health – Part II

The workshop is a side event at the European Meteorological Society Annual meeting. The workshop will be held in a hybrid format, with all presentations delivered on-site. 

Webinar - Understanding Short-Lived Climate Forcers for Improved Air Quality and Climate Information

In the lead-up to Clean Air Day, the WMO Secretariat invites you to join a webinar on “Understanding Short-Lived Climate Forcers for Improved Air Quality and Climate Information”.

Webinar: The epidemiological situation of autochthonous cases of Aedes-borne diseases in Europe and introduction of the public health guidance

The ECDC output “Public health guidance to support the assessment and mitigation of the risk of locally-acquired Aedes-borne viral diseases in the EU/EEA” is under editing and expected to be published in the coming weeks.

Climate Action in Practice: A Training On Target-Setting and Advocacy in the Healthcare Sector

Understanding emissions is just the beginning of addressing climate change. The challenge lies in turning that knowledge and data into a clear, strategic action plan for change. This training is designed to help healthcare professionals and sustainability leaders move beyond awareness and into action, developing mitigation targets that are ambitious yet achievable, and advocating for the support they need at all levels of the organisation.

Webinar: The Impact of Climate Change on People

On July, 10th, CMCC Foundation and the Wageningen Environmental Research (WR) are organising a dissemination webinar entitled “The Impact of Climate Change on People” to demonstrate the different services that the SDGs-EYES project has developed to support understanding and awareness around the social impacts of climate change.

#EUHPP LIVE WEBINAR Natural disasters and climate change – the risks of wildfires for respiratory health

This webinar, part of a wider series on natural disasters, will examine the growing impact of wildfires on respiratory health in the context of climate change. While individuals with existing respiratory conditions are particularly at risk, increasing temperatures and the rise in extreme weather events make this an urgent public health concern for all.

Management and Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events in the EU Budget

The public hearing on "Management and Preparedness for Extreme Weather Events and Natural Disasters in the EU Budget" will examine the effects of the rising frequency and severity of natural disasters on the current EU budget, as well as on the planning and implementation of the EU's long term budget.

European Climate Change Adaptation Conference 2025

ECCA2025 will be a unique gathering of adaptation expertise from an exceptional network of practitioners, governments, researchers, and stakeholders. The conference will serve as a dynamic platform to share practical experiences and tools, exchange perspectives, and foster collaboration towards smarter, faster and more systemic adaptation in Europe.

EuroHealthNet Annual Seminar 2025: Climate change and health

The 2025 EuroHealthNet Annual Seminar will begin by setting out the evidence of the health and health equity impacts of climate change, including the costs of inaction. Experts will explore what difference we can make – as public health professionals and beyond. How can we take action, advocate for, and achieve change, bringing everyone on board? A high-level policy panel will discuss how initiatives across sectors and across levels of governance can create a healthier planet and protect everyone's health and wellbeing.

Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health

The Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health is an independent advisory group convened by WHO/Europe to raise the political profile, awareness and support for stronger action to address the health impacts of climate change.

CleanMed Europe Conference

The CleanMed Europe 2025 conference will take place online from June 10-13th.

Mental health and climate change: Making mental health systems climate resilient and sustainable

The webinar will outline the impacts of climate change on mental health systems as well as the possible existing solutions that can be put in place to make mental health systems more resilient to climate change and more sustainable. You will hear a diverse set of examples. The webinar will take place at two different times to accommodate different time zones: (i) 9h00-10h30 CET (ii) 19h00-20h30 CET.

Heatwaves: a public health emergency for respiratory systems

This webinar will look at the effects of heatwaves on the respiratory systems as a public health emergency and will explore the role of heat-health action plans in improving preparedness and response.

Transatlantic dialogue on climate change and mental health

Resilient Health Systems for Cancer - Joint event Mission Adaptation and Mission Cancer

Experts and stakeholders from the EU Mission Adaptation to Climate Change and the EU Mission Cancer will come together to share knowledge on the connections between climate change and cancer. Participants will also gain insights into strategies for adapting healthcare systems and infrastructure to withstand climate hazards. The session will encourage collaboration on building resilient healthcare systems that can effectively address cancer care in a changing climate.

Adapting the health sector to climate impacts

This event will explore innovative strategies to enhance the resilience of the health and social well-being sectors in the face of climate change. It will bring together experts, as well as regional and local authority representatives, to discuss the intersection between climate adaptation and public health. Through real-world case studies, attendees will gain valuable insights into a number of best practices, innovative solutions and partnerships to improve resilience in this sector in European regions and cities.

Register now! Mycotoxin risks in Europe and the potential impacts of climate change (Webinar)

Climate change is altering fungal behaviour and increasing the prevalence of mycotoxins, toxic compounds produced by fungi that contaminate crops, food, and feed. Exposure to these toxins is linked to severe health effects, including carcinogenicity, endocrine disruption, and neurotoxicity. Leveraging human biomonitoring (HBM) data from the HBM4EU initiative, the briefing provides evidence on dietary exposure to mycotoxins, revealing concerns for public health. This briefing explores how rising temperatures are intensifying human exposure to mycotoxins and highlights the One Health approach as a critical framework for mitigating risks.

Resilience and performance: measuring a country’s resilience in Health System Performance Assessment

At least since the Covid-19 pandemic, resilience has been a key preoccupation of policy-makers. Yet how to integrate it into health system performance assessments? A plethora of academic work over the last few years has attempted to conceptualize resilience as it pertains to health systems. But what do we know in terms of its practical application? In this webinar, we explore how a number of EU countries have practically measured health system resilience. Country representatives will impart which indicators are used and why, and how they fit into their national HSPAs. Join us to hear how countries practically measure resilience!