Natural disasters, climate change, and vulnerable populations: whose responsibility to help?

Presentation Hogesteeger

Sanne Hogesteeger joined the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre in 2015 and is the project coordinator for the Partners for Resilience programme. Sanne took her first degree in cultural anthropology and development sociology at the University of Leiden and an MA in international humanitarian action at the University of Groningen.

 

Joris Van Loenhout obtained his MSc in Toxicology and Environmental Health at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2006. From 2007 to 2014, he worked at the department of Environmental Health at the Public Health Services Gelderland-Midden. From 2010 onwards, he carried out a PhD project on the long-term health effects of Q-fever at Radboud University Nijmegen, which he defended in early 2015. Joris carried out several studies within the field of climate and health, including studies on the impact of extreme heat events. He is currently working on the Horizon 2020 project BRIGAID and the impact of natural disasters on several countries in Asia, at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

 

Tuesday 6 November​ 2018
From 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
University of Antwerp - Stadscampus  
Rodestraat 14 - R.001 - 2000 Antwerpen (how to reach the Stadscampus?)

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