The Health Impacts of Climate Change:
What Nurses Need to Know!
Registration opens at 8:30
What health care providers will learn:
Latest reports out of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Health Organization (WHO)
Specific Environmental changes and impact on acute and chronic health conditions
Latest thinking on Renewable Energy - Is natural gas out?
Food, the environment and health
Who should attend:
Nurses
APRNs, PAs and MDs
Nutritionists
Public
AGENDA
8:30 am Registration/coffee
9:00 am - 9:15 am Welcome
9:15 am - 10:35 am Panel Presentation : Climate and Health
Air Water Extreme Weather Vector Borne Diseases Food Insecurity
10:45 am - 11:45 am What can we do?
CT policies addressing climate and why you
need to be involved!
11:45 am -12:00 pm Next Steps!
Continuing Nurses Education will be provided for this activity
Connecticut Nurses’ Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education
by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation
Registration opens at 8:30 am
Parking:There's a parking lot outside the building and on street parking.
There is also a parking lot a cross the street from the YMCA building - there is a small charge for this lot.