Climate Change, Migration and Health - A Fire-side Chat with Dr Trish Nayna Schwerdtle

About the presentation:

Join us for a fire-side chat with Dr. Trish Nayna Schwerdtle on climate change, migration, and health. Dr Schwerdtle will share her experiences working as a clinician and researcher internationally, highlighting the current trends, the latest evidence, and policy responses to climate migration.  In conversation with Dr Rebecca Patrick, Academic Convener, Climate CATCH Lab and climate and health researcher, she will be providing frank and fearless responses to audience questions about her experiences in the field.

Check out our seminar primer here: https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-017-0981-7

About the speaker:

Dr. Trish Nayna Schwerdtle is a Post Doc Researcher at the Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Heidelberg University, Germany, an adjunct academic at Monash University in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science and a Fellow at UoM School of Population and Global Health. Trish is also a Clinical Nurse Specialist, having worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for several years in both clinical and governance roles. Her current research focuses on climate change-related migration and health, climate change and humanitarian assistance, and; climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems. She has worked in clinical and research roles in South Sudan, the Pacific, Europe, and Bangladesh. Currently, Trish is engaged in research projects focusing on climate change, migration, and health in Burkina Faso, as well as implementation science projects in Chad and South Africa on climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems.