4th Global Oral Health & Climate Action Conference November 10-21
Philadelphia – Penn Dental Medicine’s Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) has launched its 4th Global Oral Health & Climate Action Conference, which will feature live virtual sessions over the next two weeks (November 10-21) in conjunction with the COP30 Climate Conference taking place in Brazil.
“The conference is an important opportunity for the oral health community to engage in a global discourse on climate change and creates a platform to raise awareness and knowledge about oral and planetary health,” says Dr. Julian Fisher, Director of Oral and Planetary Health Policies within CIGOH, who is leading the Conference. “CIGOH established this multi-year Global Oral Health and Climate Action Conference to promote and contribute to a consistent and coherent approach to addressing complex global challenges like climate change and also create opportunities for solutions through a model of sustainable dentistry.”
The launch session included Penn Dental Medicine’s Morton Amsterdam Dean, Dr. Mark S. Wolff, along with Dr. Benoit Varenne, WHO Oral Health Officer; Dr. Christopher Fox, Chief Executive Officer for IADR; Hon. Penioni Ravunawa, Assistant Minister for Health and Medical Services, Government of Fiji; Dr. Renata Bastos, University Center of Para (CESUPA), Belem, Bazil; Assistant Professor Nikolai Sharkov, FDI World Dental Federation; and Dr. Rena Aliyeva, COP 29 Host.
Over the next two weeks there will be 23 sessions on a wide range of topics – among them “Building a Sustainable Healthcare Practice” (Nov. 11); “Integrating Planetary Health into Clinical and Public Health Evidence-Informed Practice Guidelines in Oral Health” (Nov. 13); “Minimum Intervention Oral Care & Sustainability” (Nov. 17); “Reimaging Dental Education Through the Lens of Planetary Health and One Health” (Nov. 18); and “Improving Oral Health Inequities through Transdisciplinary and Team-Based Approaches” (Nov. 18).
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All sessions are virtual and will be available for viewing after the Conference on the CIGOH webpage.