‘Can’t Take the Heat’ podcast
The ‘Can’t Take the Heat’ podcast from Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre - an ENBEL partner - explores how people will adapt to a warming world.
With expert guests from around the world, host Roop Singh approaches the biggest challenges posed by climate change, like more intense and frequent heatwaves, from a humanitarian perspective.
This page features podcast episodes featuring ENBEL researchers and projects. The whole podcast series can be found here.
The Intricate Web of Climate and Health
In this episode the host and guests are zooming into the interface of climate and health. ENBEL coordinator and CICERO research director Kristin Aunan tells us why climate and health research needs to inform climate adaptation and policy, while Antonio Gasparrini from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine talks about how climate change is already impacting human health, by playing a role in a third of heat-related deaths globally. Francesca de’Donato Department of Epidemiology in the Lazio region in Rome shares the most up-to-date evidence on whose most vulnerable to extreme heat and the biggest gaps in our knowledge that still need to be filled.
A CHANCE meeting
In this episode we learn more about the new network CHANCE created by and for African researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to exchange knowledge and take action on climate and health issues.
The host Roop Singh talks to Didacus Namanya (Uganda Ministry of Health), Jennifer Kuhl (Global Climate and Health Alliance), Antonios Kolimenakis (WHO Africa), and ENBEL researcher Matthew Chersich (University of the Witwatersrand) on their experience at the CHANCE network meeting and where it should go next.