The core questions we wanted to explore were:

• How can heat protection and reduction of air pollution (including from wildfires) be  included in heat health action planning

• What needs to be considered when adapting heat health action planning to local contexts (e.g. heat health interaction, demography, social inequality, topography & city-planning)?

• Which stakeholders and sectors should be involved?

• What are effective measures for developing a climate-resilient low-emission city and how can these be integrated into a regional or local heat-health action plan?

Speakers at the event were Kristin Aunan, CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Antonio Gasparrini, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Francesca De' Donato, Lazio Regional Health Service in Rome, Italy and Claire Slesinski, Helmholtz Munich.

The presentations were followed comments from Colin O'Hehir, Department of Health, Ireland, Stina Oseland, Director for the Climate Agency in Bergen, Norway, Panagiotis Chaslaridis, European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations.  

Finally we had a session on learning materials from the EXHAUSTION project. Through the project we have developed an application to monitor environmental conditions where you live – Hackair, which was presentded by Christodoulos Keratidis, Draxis and Angela Morelli from InfoDesign Lab held an introduction about Visualising Science for Impact, by Angela Morelli.

Have a look here!