The Climate Change and Health Community invites everyone to their finaly Community Meeting of the year 2025! 🌍

As a Guest Speaker, Marek Szilvasi will share first-hand insights into the COP30 health outcomes and discuss their implications for the health sector. You find the abstract of his presentation and his short bio below.

If you would like to join the online meeting via Zoom, please registere here: Meeting-Registrierung - Zoom

We look forward to seeing you there and closing the year with an inspiring discussion. 🌡️🌱

Klaus, Donald, Jennyfer and the Hub Management Team 🤝🌐

Abstract

The health impacts of climate change are increasingly tangible. The newly released 2025 Lancet Countdown on Climate and Health—the largest analysis of its kind - indicates that millions of people die each year as a result of insufficient climate action. Every country is now starting to experience some combination of extreme heat, water scarcity, food insecurity, and changing patterns of infectious disease. Despite mounting scientific evidence, adaptation efforts remain fragmented, incremental, and mostly reactive. The decision to operationalize the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) - established by the Paris Agreement under the United Nation Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC) - at COP28 in 2023 was therefore a landmark achievement, introducing a structured framework to measure collective progress across 7 thematic and 4 cross-cutting dimensions. Yet significant challenges persist—including in the climate and health thematic target. At COP30, parties are expected to adopt this critical framework, including  a robust, comprehensible, and equitable set of indicators, to institutionalise climate and health nexus under the UNFCCC and ensure that climate policy is grounded in public health and health equity. This talk will provide an initial reflection and analysis of the COP30 outcomes in developing a critical framework for climate and health synergies under the GGA.

Short Resume

Dr Marek Szilvasi is a climate impacts and adaptation, public health and health equity expert. Currently, he has served as a mandated UNFCCC expert developing climate-health nexus indicators under the Global Goal on Adaptation, and Director of Programmes of the Slycan Trust. He previously held a senior management role at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) leading climate resilience, health equity and environmental determinants of health programming and portfolios. As an advisor, he has supported private philanthropies and international organizations in enhancing impact, aligning climate and health strategies, and advancing equity and transparency in their strategies and programming.

Digital Health Lecture Series – Winter Term 2025/26 💡🩺💻

As part of the interdisciplinary lecture series “Digital Health: Innovative Research Projects,” experts from academia, healthcare, and industry explore how digital transformation can improve healthcare delivery in Germany. Across three sessions, they present cutting-edge research, discuss challenges, and engage with the public on emerging solutions in digital health.

Featured Session: Eye-Tracking for Communication in Intensive Care 👁️💬

Date: 11 December 2025, 18:00
Location: FernUniversität in Hagen, Campus Hagen (and online via Zoom)

This session features Dr. Christopher Ull (BG Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil Bochum) and Dr. Christina Ingwald (FernUniversität in Hagen), who provide insights into their interdisciplinary project on eye-tracking technology for patients with limited or no speech ability—such as intubated ICU patients.

The lecture addresses:

• How eye-tracking can support communication of pain, needs, and autonomy
• Psychological and medical perspectives on technology-assisted communication
• Practical experiences from clinical settings
• Opportunities and barriers to integrating such tools into everyday care

Participants onsite can also enjoy a post-event networking session with snacks and drinks.

📍 Series Locations: Campus Berlin, Campus Hagen, Campus Bonn + Zoom
📅 Dates: 06.11.2025, 11.12.2025, 22.01.2026 – each at 18:00
💰 Free participation