2023 Symposium on Heat: Impacts on Children and Pregnancy
Please join OEHHA and the Children’s Environmental Health Center for a virtual symposium series exploring the effects of heat on children and during pregnancy. This highly interactive four-session symposium will cover physiologic considerations for children and pregnancy, strategies to combat health effects in children and during pregnancy, and important considerations for these populations in the development of heat health warning systems.
Following the sessions, this page will be updated with the links to the recorded videos.
Session 1 (Pediatrics), Wednesday April 5, 11:15-12:45pm
Pediatric physiology and the epidemiology of heat health effects in children
Symposium Series Welcome:
Lauren Zeise, PhD
Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA),
California EPA
Introduction:
Stephanie M Holm, MD PhD MPH
Public Health Medical Officer, OEHHA, California EPA
Pediatric Physiologic Considerations for Responding to Heat
Pediatric Physiologic Considerations for Responding to Heat
Caroline J Smith, PhD
Associate Professor at Appalachian State University
Prevention of Heat Related Illness In The Pediatric Population
Robert Huggins, PhD, LAT, ATC
President of Research and Athlete Performance and Safety at the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut
Clinical Perspective and Epidemiology of Health Effects of Heat in Children
Heat, Child Health and Health Equity
Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH
Interim Director of the Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at Harvard, Pediatric Hospitalist at Boston Children’s
The When + Who affects What Happens
Perry Sheffield, MD MPH
Associate Professor in the Departments of Environmental Medicine and Public Health and Pediatrics, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Panel Moderated by Dr. Holm
Session 2 (Pregnancy), Wednesday April 26, 10:15-11:45pm
Pregnancy physiology and the epidemiology of heat health effects in pregnant people
Introduction:
Mark D Miller, MD MPH
Public Health Medical Officer, OEHHA, California EPA
Pregnancy Physiologic Considerations for Responding to Heat
Ana Bonell, MBChB DTMH MSc MRCP FRCA
Clinician and Research fellow at London School of Hygiene and tropical medicine
Ambient Heat Exposure & Adverse Birth Outcomes in California
Rupa Basu, PhD MPH
Chief of Air and Climate Epidemiology section, California EPA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
Clinical Perspective on Heat in Pregnancy
Marya Zlatnik, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California San Francisco
Panel Moderated by Dr. Miller
Session 3 (Strategies), Wednesday June 7, 11:15-12:45pm
Strategies to combat health effects of heat in children and during pregnancy
Introduction:
Stephanie M Holm, MD PhD MPH
Public Health Medical Officer, OEHHA, California EPA
Strategies to combat extreme heat for children and pregnant people
Kristie Ebi, MS PhD
Professor and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington
School and play area interventions to decrease health effects of heat
Jennifer Vanos, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures, Arizona State University
Local public health perspective on responding to heat for children and pregnant people
Savannah North, MPH
Director of Administration and Climate Initiatives, Public Health Alliance of Southern California
Panel Moderated by Dr. Holm
Session 4 (Warning Systems), August 15, 11:15 am – 12:45 pm
Heat Health Warning Systems and Important Considerations for Children and Pregnant People
Welcome:
David Edwards, PhD
Chief Deputy Director, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), CalEPA
Introduction:
Rupa Basu, PhD MPH
Chief of Air and Climate Epidemiology section, California EPA, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA)
NOAA and National Weather Service Tools for Heat Warnings
Reid Wolcott
Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA/National Weather Service, Seattle, WA
Heat Warning Systems and Action Plans in the US
Nicole Errett, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Lessons from Two Decades of Heat Warning and Action Plans in Italy and Europe
Francesca de’Donato, PhD MSc
Senior Researcher, Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service (Rome, Italy)