Temperatures rising: Preparing and protecting for extreme heat
Join Wellcome, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN) and global leaders on the need to act on unprecedented and increasingly deadly extreme temperatures.
Rising global temperatures pose a significant threat to communities, with escalating extreme heat and heatwaves endangering lives worldwide. With heat driving extreme events, chronic heat exposure already at dangerous levels in parts of the world and the intensity and frequency of heatwaves increasing globally, rising temperatures are becoming a critical threat to all of us, with cascading impacts. In July 2024, the UN Secretary-General issued a Call to Action on Extreme Heat, underscoring the need for a comprehensive global response to this ‘silent killer’.
After a decade of unprecedented rising temperatures, this event on the side lines of WHA aims to elevate extreme heat as a health issue amongst the global health community to strengthen immediate policy, advocacy and operational opportunities amidst a wide coalition of partners, and discuss how best to reduce the risks of heat on lives and livelihoods.