VIRTUAL MEETING | Health and Climate Change: The health emergency
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SPEAKER | Alexis Percival, Environmental and Sustainability Manager at Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
ABSTRACT | As our climate changes through the mounting impact of global warming, the impacts are being felt on human health. From heat waves, flooding and increased rainfall to increased cancer cases, heat deaths, kidney failure, mass migration and more pandemics, we will explore the health issues that climate change are already wreaking on populations across the planet as well as the challenges health systems will face in the future. Weather will play a major role in global migration and the world economy as well as the international human health.
Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager at Yorkshire Ambulance Service as well as the Climate Change lead for the Humber Coast and Vale Integrated Care System. She works closely with Health Declares, Leeds Climate Commission and the Greener NHS programme to drive forward carbon emission reductions, regionally and nationally.
The Climate Emergency is a Health Emergency: we need to act now to protect our planetary health in the future.
BIOGRAPHY | Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. She started as the first Sustainability Manager for an ambulance service in the country in 2009. Her role is a challenging one – trying to encourage staff to drive in a more efficient green manner as well as get to the job to save lives. She has been working to slash the carbon footprint of the ambulance service through innovative technologies in the estates and fleet as well as working with her procurement department to decrease emissions through buying choices.
She has over 15 years of experience in the environmental field as an environmental consultant working on large national and international projects in the UK as well as Brazil, Germany, Mozambique and Australia. She took a career break and spent 3 years driving around the world in an ex-military ambulance.
VIRTUAL MEETING | Health and Climate Change: The health emergency | Recording
This was a 30 min talk followed by a 10-15 min Q&A. The meeting was open from 18:59 for attendees to join and the event started promptly at 19:00.
UPDATE | Registration for this event has now closed.
SPEAKER | Alexis Percival, Environmental and Sustainability Manager at Yorkshire Ambulance Service.
ABSTRACT | As our climate changes through the mounting impact of global warming, the impacts are being felt on human health. From heat waves, flooding and increased rainfall to increased cancer cases, heat deaths, kidney failure, mass migration and more pandemics, we will explore the health issues that climate change are already wreaking on populations across the planet as well as the challenges health systems will face in the future. Weather will play a major role in global migration and the world economy as well as the international human health.
Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager at Yorkshire Ambulance Service as well as the Climate Change lead for the Humber Coast and Vale Integrated Care System. She works closely with Health Declares, Leeds Climate Commission and the Greener NHS programme to drive forward carbon emission reductions, regionally and nationally.
The Climate Emergency is a Health Emergency: we need to act now to protect our planetary health in the future.
BIOGRAPHY | Alexis Percival is the Environmental and Sustainability Manager for Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust. She started as the first Sustainability Manager for an ambulance service in the country in 2009. Her role is a challenging one – trying to encourage staff to drive in a more efficient green manner as well as get to the job to save lives. She has been working to slash the carbon footprint of the ambulance service through innovative technologies in the estates and fleet as well as working with her procurement department to decrease emissions through buying choices.
She has over 15 years of experience in the environmental field as an environmental consultant working on large national and international projects in the UK as well as Brazil, Germany, Mozambique and Australia. She took a career break and spent 3 years driving around the world in an ex-military ambulance.
VIRTUAL MEETING | Health and Climate Change: The health emergency | Recording
This was a 30 min talk followed by a 10-15 min Q&A. The meeting was open from 18:59 for attendees to join and the event started promptly at 19:00.