Henna Hundal covers the intersection of climate change and health, along with other high-impact health issues. She is a three-time delegate to the United Nations Climate Change Conferences.
When Rohingya refugees arrived in Bangladesh in 2017, their shelters were inadequately ventilated and used plastic sheeting that needed frequent replacement, posing health risks during periods of high heat.
The thousands of participants at the conference, which included Bill Gates, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, exchanged insights on the most pressing contemporary health issues, including the importance of strong community engagement to advance investments in tackling climate-health problems.
Involving indigenous communities in solutions to these health problems arising from climate change is a synergistic process. “It’s not about learning from indigenous people, but now it’s about learning with. “So this traditional knowledge needs to work together with health practitioners, with government officials, with NGO sectors, with the academia to create a new knowledge that adapts to the forest and the changing forest.
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