Conference: Community interest

This year’s Southwest One Health Symposium will spotlight innovative, solutions-oriented approaches to operationalizing One Health—from data-driven decision making and community-engaged strategies to cutting-edge tools and surveillance programs that bridge human, animal, and environmental health.

This webinar will feature an open, facilitated discussion with a panel of experts who will share how planning policies, strategies, and tools are being used across communities and countries to address extreme heat. Participants will gain insight into current best practices for heat-resilient planning across different city types and learn from international and global perspectives that can inform local action.

This webinar will explore grid system technologies and strategies for resilient cooling. Participants will hear directly from experts on how they prepare the electric grid for increased energy demand and ensure its reliability during extreme heat events as well as the policies needed to scale up these interventions.

This webinar will explore community-system technologies and strategies for resilient cooling and their benefits for community-wide energy reliability, grid resilience, and extreme heat preparedness. Participants will hear directly from experts on targeted solutions and the policy levers needed to scale up their broad adoption.

This webinar will focus on building-system strategies to reduce the impacts of extreme heat on buildings, showcasing cooling solutions beyond conventional air conditioning. Participants will hear directly from experts on the policies that will enable greater proliferation of resilient cooling solutions that offer co-benefits for energy efficiency, reduced household energy burdens, and greater energy reliability.

This 2-day NASEM workshop will identify critical applications where AI can inform climate action at speed and scale, consider how AI’s broader societal impacts affect approaches for addressing climate change, and provide a forum for cross-sectoral dialogue.

The final webinar in the series (Extreme Weather Events and Insurance: Insurance as Adaptation) will address insurance more broadly as a form of adaptation, and the limits to insurance in terms of spreading risk and risk reduction, its business model, and resilience for individuals and communities.

The second event in the National Academies webinar series will focus on utilities. Speakers will explore how utilities, insurers, and communities approach risk management, financing, and adaptation. The session will also examine how shared and conflicting narratives about extreme weather events and resilience influence how interested parties make decisions around these issues.

This webinar is organized by AD’OCC (trade Agency of the Occitanie Region), the Maison de l’Occitanie in New York, Eurobiomed, and Biocom California (Clusters).

This annual Forum presented by the University of Arizona Center for Rural Health focuses on issues of the day that are affecting the health of rural Arizonans.