The event will be held at NYU Langone Health, Murphy Auditorium (550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016) and moderated by Jeff Goodell, author of New York Times best seller The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.

The UN Secretary General recently released a call to action on extreme heat, declaring that “the world must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures.” To rise to the challenge, major gaps must be addressed in public health, medicine, technology, climatology, and risk analysis. We will hear from local and global policymakers about the tools most urgently needed to manage risk and prevent deaths from extreme heat. Then, we will hear from innovators collaborating to accelerate information tools and solutions.

Project HEATWAVE is an interdisciplinary, international effort housed at NYU Langone School of Medicine to rapidly build a framework and set of tools for projecting, analyzing, and managing responses to extreme heat for populations. Led by distinguished public health expert Anna Bershteyn, Project HEATWAVE includes multiple institutional partners and senior experts from a range of disciplines.

Speakers:

Anna Bershteyn, Director, Project HEATWAVE, and Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Zinta Zommers, Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group II (Adaptation & Impacts) and Climate Science lead, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Jane Gilbert, Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County, Florida
Bushra Afreen, Chief Heat Officer, North Dhaka, Bangladesh
Alex Azan, Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Family Health Centers
Kelly Wanser, Executive Director, SilverLining

For any inquiries, please contact Neha Kansal at neha.kansal@nyulangone.org.

Reducing Extreme Heat Mortality: Introducing Project HEATWAVE