The Impact of Climate Change on Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes

Event

The Impact of Climate Change on Maternal and Newborn Health Outcomes

Please join ��ϲ�’s Maternal Health Initiative, in collaboration with UNFPA, for a panel discussion addressing the lasting effects of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes.

Date & Time

Tuesday

Nov. 1, 2022

9:00am – 10:30am ET

Event Sponsors

Maternal Health Initiative

Environmental Change and Security Program

Indo-Pacific Program

Event Co-Sponsors

Overview

Climate change directly and indirectly affects maternal and newborn health outcomes globally. Exposure to climate-related stressors can lead to adverse health outcomes, including miscarriage, low birth weight, malnutrition, and respiratory disease. Additionally, increases in infectious disease and food insecurity driven in part by climate change can have long-term effects, including increased rates of child marriage. Climate-related crises can also lead to diminished access to necessary sexual and reproductive health services. For example, individuals forcibly displaced as a result of extreme weather events face enormous barriers to access necessary health care.

��ϲ�’s Maternal Health Initiative, in collaboration with UNFPA, hosted a panel discussion addressing the lasting effects of climate change on maternal and newborn health outcomes and the importance of addressing this often overlooked intersection of issues in global climate discussions. Panelists shared lived experience, evidence-based research, and innovations and policies from regions most directly impacted by climate change.

Introduction

Sarah B. Barnes

Director, Maternal Health Initiative

Moderator

Paulina Ospina

Associate Director, Maternal Child Health Program, Direct Relief

Panelists

Sari Kovats

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Environments and Society in the Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Talib Lashari

Technical Advisor, Population Welfare Department, Government of Sindh, Pakistan; Consultant, Department of Health, Government of Sindh

Jorge Matine

Director, IPAS Mozambique

Nila Wardani

Coordinator, Research Division, White Ribbon Alliance Indonesia

Skye Wheeler

Senior Researcher, Women’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Hosted By

Maternal Health Initiative

��ϲ�’s Maternal Health Initiative (MHI) is dedicated to improving the lives of women, adolescents, and children around the world. MHI convenes experts from around the world to discuss solutions to end preventable maternal and newborn deaths and to navigate gender-based global health issues and their links to foreign policy. MHI explores a wide range of policy-related topics, including gender equity, global health, health care workforce and systems, caregiving, gender-based violence, workforce participation, girls’ education, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. MHI is globally focused with additional attention to women and girls living in humanitarian settings. Read more

Environmental Change and Security Program

The Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) explores the connections between environmental change, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy. Read more

Indo-Pacific Program

The Indo-Pacific Program promotes policy debate and intellectual discussions on US interests in the Asia-Pacific as well as political, economic, security, and social issues relating to the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region. Read more

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