Organized by: Department of Community Medicine Shija Academy of Health Sciences, Langol

Theme: Climate Change and Public Health Challenges

Sub-themes:

• Effects on environment and nutrition
• Trend of infectious disease
• Trend of NCDs
• Impact on Psycho-social health
• Climate related disasters and their mitigation

Why SAPHCON 2023?

Although climate change is a natural and inevitable process, various human activities have sped it up in the last few decades disrupting the planet’s homeostatic system, thereby posing a serious threat to global public health. It has resulted in unprecedented droughts and floods, biodiversity alterations, food and water scarcity, climate-sensitive morbidity and even mortality.

Concerning the need to combat climate change & its health impacts MoHFW, Government of India launched the National Programme for Climate Change and Human Health (NPCCHH) in February 2019 which is still in implementation stage in various NE states.

The objectives of SAPHCON 2023 are:

• To provide opportunity for dissemination of knowledge of public health challenges in relation to climate change.
• To collaborate with all stake holders and provide a platform for interdisciplinary health research.
• To facilitate capacity building to combat public health challenges.