Join us for the AFREhealth Virtual Satellite session at CUGH 2023 hosted by the AFREhealth CUGH Working Group  

This session will be a moderated panel of experts and will focus on the climate crisis with specific strategic opportunities for African nations. Financial frameworks from the recent African Climate Summit and Assembly of the Global Environment Facility will be discussed. The intersecting roles of universities, African governments and high-income countries stakeholders to identify research gaps of known high-impact interventions and challenges to implementation will be covered. Specific advantages that African countries have in providing solutions will be addressed.

This session aims to provide an overview of strategic opportunities to address the climate crisis with a focus on African nations. Participants will better understand research gaps in high-impact interventions, the challenges policymakers have to implementation, and the natural advantages of some African contexts.

Date: Thursday 2 November 2023
Time: 9:00 AM EDT, 1 PM GMT/ 2 PM WAST/3 PM CAT, SAST/4 PM EAT
Duration: 2 and half hours

Facilitators/Moderators: Prof. Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde  |   Prof. Alfred Mteta

Program

Agenda	Speaker	Duration
Role of Universities	Tim Evans Director and Associate Dean of the School of Population and GlobalHealth (SPGH) in the Faculty of Medicine and Associate Vice-Principal (Global Policy and Innovation)	15 mins
Africa Perspective	TBD	15 mins
WHO Perspective	Dr. Maria Neira Director, Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department (PHE) World Health Organisation	15 Mins
Global Perspective	Dr.  Keith Martin Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health	15 Mins
Panel Discussion/Q &		20mins
Breakout session		20mins
Breakout debrief session		25 mins
Mentimeter activity: Word cloud	What are the key challenges and potential solutions in addressing the Climate Crisis in Africa?	20 mins
Closing remarks and way forward	Alfred Mteta, Vice President AFREhealth	5 mins