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Joint lecture series from October 23 on "Planetary Health" by the Institute for Infection Prevention and Hospital Hygiene and the Center for Medicine and Society (ZMG)

Tiger mosquitoes, heatwaves, nutritional problems: Climate change is already posing numerous health challenges. The lecture series "Planetary Health" by the Center for Medicine and Society (ZMG) at the University of Freiburg and the Institute for Infection Prevention and Hospital Hygiene at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg will explore exactly what these are, whether and how society can adapt to them, and where the limits of human adaptation lie. The lecture series starts on October 23, 2023 and includes seven lectures. The venue is the lecture hall of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hugstetter Str. 55 in Freiburg, at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg. Each lecture starts at 6.15 pm. Admission is free, registration is not necessary.

"Climate protection is health protection. With the lecture series, we want to provide impetus to tackle current problems in the areas of climate, environment and health," says Prof. Dr. Philipp Henneke, Medical Director of the Institute for Infection Prevention and Hospital Hygiene and spokesperson for the ZMG. He initiated the series together with co-speaker Prof. Dr. Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Professor of Geobotany at the University's Institute of Biology II.

The lectures cover a very broad spectrum: What are the fundamental connections between the environment and human health today and in the future? How can we make our cities more climate-friendly, liveable, healthy and sustainable by integrating nature? How closely are climate, biodiversity and health crises linked to our diet, and could these crises be solved by a different diet? How can we tackle the increasing spread of disease-carrying mosquito species in our region? What options do we have to deal with the negative effects of climate change and heatwaves in particular? At the end of the series, the effects of extreme climatic stress on the human body will also be explained and the pressing question of whether climate neutrality is even possible in high-performance medicine will be discussed.

The event dates and topics at a glance:

1. Monday, October 23, 2023: Dr. Karin Geffert, Chair of Public Health and Health Services Research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München"Planetary Health - Vision or Illusion?"
2. Monday, November 6, 2023: (online lecture via Zoom)Prof. Dr. Daniela Haluza, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna"The healthy city of the future: How nature promotes urban climate resilience"
3. Monday, November 20, 2023:Lea Bartels, Ernährungsrat Freiburg und Region e.V."Gut Essen - Ernährung für uns und den Planeten".
4. Monday, 4 December 2023: Prof. Dr. Olaf Horstick, Heidelberg Institute for Global Health, Heidelberg University Hospital"Mosquito control in the Upper Rhine Graben: important or not, in the wake of climate change and increasing urbanization?"
5. Monday, 15 January 2024: Prof. Dr. Andreas Matzarakis, Centre for Medical Meteorological Research (ZMMF) of the German Weather Service, Freiburg"Climate change and health: living with the heat"
6. Monday, 29 January 2024: Prof. Dr. Hanns-Christian Gunga, Center for Space Medicine and Extreme Environments, Charité Berlin"Health limits of human adaptation to climatic extremes"; Dr. Matthias Albrecht from KLUG - German Alliance Climate Change and Health e.V. "Can high-performance medicine be climate-neutral?"