CaribClimate Podcast Ep. 9 - Health "Balancing Health, Climate and Gender"

CaribClimate Podcast

Climate change has numerous health impacts that are not always obvious at first glance. For example, longer periods of humid weather conditions provide perfect weather for incidences of mosquito-borne diseases. Water quality can be impacted both by water scarcity, but also by extreme rainfall events. To compound all this, the health concerns connected to climate change have different impacts on men, women, children, people living with disabilities and other groups. Planning around resilience has to include all impacted groups, taking into mind their specific considerations.

Joining us for this episode are Dr. Anna Stewart Ibarra, Scientific Director of the InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research, Avriel Diaz, Executive Director of Walking Palms Global Initiative and Willy Dunbar, research associate at Florida International University

The CaribClimate Podcast has been commissioned by the Caribbean Regional PPCR. A 5-year, 10.9 Million USD project funded by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and administered by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), through the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Office of Research and Innovation (MORI). The project's objectives were to:

1. Improve the Caribbean's processes to acquire, store, analyze, access and disseminate climate-relevant data.

2. Pilot and scale-up innovative climate-resilient initiatives in the region.

Learn more about the project by visiting caribppcr.org.jm