Topics
- Health and Climate Change
- Transformation and Change-Management of health care delivery
- Green hospitals and sustainable hospital management
- Planetary Health
- Digital Planetary Health, Green IT
- System thinking, Health Systems
Topics (selection)
Green Week, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. October 2020. COVID 19, the Climate Crisis and the impact on our health. What are the links? What do we need to do?
Climate and Health Summit (organisation and scientific lead) 16th and 17th October 2020. How the Climate Crisis changes disease patterns and interventions.
Hipp Symposium 20th April 2021: Planetary health diet – Health child nutrition in the time of climate crisis
International Society for Social Paediatrics (ISSOP) 24th June 2021: Climate change and child health
H4F Regensburg 29th April 2021: Climate change and nutrition – how can we transform the current system
2nd International Conference on the Future of Nursing and Nursing Education 11th August 2021: Why health care systems urgently need to act on climate change
Future of Health, International Conference, 13th-17th September 2021. Workshop 13.09.21: Green spaces, Climate change and health: What Covid should teach us?
16. German National Conference for Allergology 30th Sept until 2nd Oktober 2021: Für einen allergologischen Klimawandel. 1. Oktober 2021. Actions in the climate crisis: Going green .. in hospitals
Planetary Health, Ringvorlesung University of Marburg 11 Januar 2022: Green hospitals – how to achieve organisational change
ENBEL/Change 26th January 2022: Air pollution and wild fires in Africa – impact on health
Climate and Health Summit 22th to 23th October 2021 : Climate Change and Child Health, COVID-19 and Child obesity.
African Health Excon June 2022, Cairo: Climate change and health
Feed-back: “Dear Prof Weimann, it was a pleasure joining us in our conference session. We truly appreciate your remarkable input, positive spirit and potential participation in theis successful discussion. Thank you!”
Tyrol Climate Forum, June 2022, Innsbruck: The Climate crisis and impacts on health
.Our governments have a social responsibility to disseminate clear and unadorned climate facts and to explain the reasons, causes and effects of the climate crisis. The Climate Alliance Tyrol has taken on this task and has organised an event on the climate crisis for the general public. Politicians and the population can only make evidence-based decisions if everybody is aware of the facts, causes and effects of the climate crisis. As the health and future well-being of the population are core areas of state responsibility, this is a task that transcends party politics.
It is a great honour for me to have been invited to give the keynote speech on the topic of “Why climate change is making us sick” and to have been able to contribute to climate literacy
HCWH, October 2022, Brussels: Antimicrobiotics in meat – how hospitals can make a difference
Over the past weeks we created a guideline together with HCWH how hospitals can make a difference to outphase antimicrobiotic use in meat and reduce antimicrobiotic infections in the population. On the road to a sustainable and healthier future.
Healthy meals in hospitals
BVKJ Conference 24th September 2022, Munich: How to implement sustainable health care facilities
Horizon Europe 2020, 4th October 2022, Rom, Research Grant meeting, PLAN´EAT, 4th October, Rom
The current agricultural system produces 15% greenhouse gas emissions and a significant loss of biodiversity. If we intent to tackle Climate Change and avoid Climate breakdown, we need to change our food system to become more sustainable. Hospitals play an important role in leading the change and offer healthier food. Over the past years I had implemented as the medical director sustainable food measures such as a meat free day, reduction of food waste and use of single use plastics, local suppliers and a vegetable garden. The EU has granted us as a TUM team a research fund to implement plant based food in a hospital and investigate the health benefits.
Sustainable travelling to reduce CO2 emissions. Flight under 1500 km are seldom quicker taking into account travel time to and from the airport, waiting times etc. One of the reasons why France has now abandoned short haul flights. One first step.
60th conference of the Austrian Society for Child Health 6th October 2022, Vienna: Healthy hospitals
Topics: Impact of Climate Change on Child Health & Healthy hospitals
IHF World Hospital Conference, November 2022, Dubai: On the road to net-zero health systems
The IHF conference will take place in November 2022. I am truly honoured to be member of the selection committee 2022 of the prestigious sustainability hospital awards.
Session chair – towards a sustainable future
Vortrag “On the road to net zero health care systems”
Vorstellung der nachhaltigen Balanced Scorecard und des DHOW Modells
German Hospital Association (DKG) Conference, December 2022, Berlin: Net zero hospitals
Prof. Henriette Neumeyer and Prof Edda Weimann
Link to lecture (from 1h29 min onwards)
American College of Health Care Executives (ACHE), March 2023, Chicago: Workshop on sustainable hospitals
2nd Africa Health Excon 6th to 9th June 2023: The future of health care – How to lead. adapt and thrive in a digital and green world.
Climate Healthcare leadership (Panel and workshop) – overcoming challenges and creating opportunities
e-health in Africa – success or failure (hosted by GAHAR)
Climate Change and Health Conference, October 2023, Stockholm
Some countries are already leading the way into a healthy and fossil fuel free future
ENVIRONMENT and HEALTH
Waste-water discharge into Atlantic Ocean in Cape Town
Wastewater discharge and thalassogenic diseases are are world wide problem. Most coastal cities and villages still lead their sewage often untreated into waterways and oceans resulting in wastewater related diseases of recreational bathers. Besides, marine wildlife, ecosystems and fish are polluted by multiple toxins such as bacteria (e,g, E. coli), virus, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and fossil fuel. This practice adds additional strain to our oceans on top of the climate crisis.
Waterstories
Climate action means health protection 