Multi-Hazard-to-Health Outcomes (MH2O) Working Group
5 Feb 2025
11.52am
Bridge Joseph Ruston Building University of Lincoln Edgewest Road Lincoln Lincolnshire LN6 7EL
Event Information
The Lincoln Institute for Rural and Coastal Health (LIRCH) together with our colleagues at the University of Loughborough invite you to attend the Inaugural meeting of the Multi-Hazards-to-Health Outcomes Working Group. This event if led by Dr Harriet Elizabeth Moore (LIRCH) and UNESCO Chair in Informatics and Multi-Hazard Risk Reduction Professor Qiuhua Liang (University of Loughborough).
The University of Lincoln is delighted to co-host this exciting opportunity to come together with ‘multi-hazard-to-health’ enthusiasts from across multiple academic institutions, public and private organisations and agencies, charities, and community groups. We know that single events like heatwaves impact the health and wellbeing of societies. However, single events often precipitate further events (e.g., groundwater flooding, air pollution events) that have a cumulative impact on physical and mental health. Mapping transitions from multi-hazards-to-health outcomes is an important step in preparing our societies for future climate change scenarios.
Currently, there is excellent work being done to prepare the UK and elsewhere for the uncertain future of climate change and the impact that singular and compound multi-hazards associated with meteorological and hydrological processes are likely to have on the health of societies. There are lots of unknowns; some unknowns pertain to the nature of multi-hazards and the transition from meteorological events to successive environmental hazards. Other unknowns relate to health outcomes.
Where along the vast continuum of multi-hazard ‘chains’ do health outcomes emerge?
How can health services prepare for these unknowns?
What big questions need answering and how can meteorological, environmental and health organisations and institutes work together with our communities across our diverse landscapes to answer big questions?
This event will take place on February 5th, 2025 in hybrid form allowing our colleagues from around the UK and elsewhere to join the conversation. The in-person event will be held at the University of Lincoln. The day will involve three sessions, two which will be delivered in hybrid form.
The first session involves invited presentations. The remainder of the day is dedicated to curiosity and innovation!
We invite our attendees to participate in a competition to pioneer novel approaches to multi-hazard preparedness, response and evaluation: the Waffle House Challenge.
Sponsor this event!
We invite the ‘multi-hazard-to-health’ community to sponsor this event by supporting our colleagues to attend the event in person. If you or your institute are funding your in-person attendance let us know (registration below) so that we can promote your institution.
If you have any questions about this event, please contact hamoore@lincoln.ac.uk.
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