Jolene Labbé attended the Ouranos Symposium in Quebec City December 4th and 5th. Ouranos is a consortium on regional climatology and adaptation to climate change (www.ouranos.ca). The symposium is geared towards sharing knowledge between government and researchers and is held in French. At the symposium Jolene presented a poster on her IHACC research on vulnerability of Bakiga health to climate change in Uganda and adaptive capacity (Poster title: Comment les changements climatiques affectent-ils la santé d’une communauté rurale en Ouganda?).
IHACC at the UNFCCC COP20 conference in Lima, Peru
IHACC will be present at the UNFCCC COP20 conference in Lima, Peru. Dr James Ford, Dr Shuaib Lwasa and Dr Alejandro Llanos will be chairing an official side event titled “Indigenous peoples, health, and community-based monitoring systems” as part of the Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change (IHACC) project team, along with Michelle Maillet who will be presenting at the event. Both Dr. Ford and Malcom Araos will be presenting a booth at the exhibit portion of COP20 on the Tracking Research in Adaptation to Climate Change Consortium (TRAC3) project. There will also be IHACC booths at the “Voces por el Clima” fair and the“Climate and Health Summit” side events, where Dr. Ford, Michelle Maillet, Mya Sherman and Margot Charette will be present at different times to promote and explain the IHACC project.
World Resources Forum, Arequipa Peru 2014
Over 1,000 participants from 40 countries and international organizations attended the World Resources Forum 2014 in Arequipa, Peru, October 20-22, 2014. Participants from governments, business, research and civil society, including many students, exchanged their views on how to increase resource productivity, address climate change while decreasing its environmental and social burden. To read Jahir's report on his experience at the WRF 2014, click here
IHACC Adaptation Leaders Week, Peru
From September 8th to 15th members of Indigenous communities participating in IHACC research and the IHACC Peru team participated in three activities which were held in Lima: 1) Work Session on Gender and Indigenous Health related to Adaptation to Climate Change, 2) Internal Workshop of IHACC Peru and 3) National Meeting of young people for the climate change called ´TierrActiva´. The overall goal was to propose a preliminary proposal for adaptation initiatives in each of the IHACC communities. To read Jahir's report on these activities, click here
Sierra Clark presents her poster at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference, October 2nd, 2014
Undergraduate Honours student, Sierra Clark, presented her poster “The burden, determinants, and experience of Acute Gastrointestinal illness (AGI) for Indigenous Batwa-Pygmies in southwestern Uganda” at the McGill Science undergraduate research conference held October 2. Sierra was nominated by the department of Geography to present her research to a panel of judges, fellow researchers, as well as peers. Sierra’s poster comprised of her honours thesis that takes a mixed methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to understand the burden of infectious AGI for an Indigenous Batwa population in sub-Saharan Africa.Sierra’s poster was also accepted, and presented, at The 5th Biennial Conference of the International Association for Ecology & Health that was held in Montreal August 2014.