Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generations - Heat and extremes
Tracks
Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generation
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 |
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
Speaker
Prof Martina Anna Maggioni
Head of Research Group
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Research-grade wearables to assess the impact of extreme heat on residual labour capacity in subsistence farmers in Burkina Faso
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Professor of Physiology, focusing on human adaptation to extreme environments, e.g., space, cold and extreme heat, with knowledgeable expertise in bio-signals analysis assessing metabolic, thermoregulatory, cardiovascular and behavioral response to environmental stressors, leading several projects in space medicine, climate change, heat stress and their impact on human health and performance.
Prof Martina Anna Maggioni
Head of Research Group
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Linking home-based cooling interventions with malaria burden reduction, sensor-based individual monitoring, harvest and nutrition for resilience to global warming among subsistence farmers in rural western Kenya
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Professor of Physiology, focusing on human adaptation to extreme environments, e.g., space, cold and extreme heat, with knowledgeable expertise in bio-signals analysis assessing metabolic, thermoregulatory, cardiovascular and behavioral response to environmental stressors, leading several projects in space medicine, climate change, heat stress and their impact on human health and performance.
Ms Rachel Yeboah Nketiah
University of Energy and Natural Resources
Climate change and climate-induced extreme heat stress in Ghana: a review of the evidence, impacts and implications for women
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Rachel Yeboah Nketiah is an Assistant Research Fellow at Centre for Climate Change and Gender Studies (3CGS) of the University. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Forest Sciences at the University of Energy and Natural Resources.
Prof Susan Harris Rimmer
Professor, Griffith Law School and Climate Action Beacon
Griffith University
A human rights approach to adapting to extreme heat
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Professor Susan Harris Rimmer from Griffith Law School in Brisbane, Australia leads the Climate Justice theme of the Griffith Climate Action Beacon. Susan was a 2022 Fulbright Fellow, and named a Top Innovator by Uplink World Economic Forum for the Climate Justice Challenge in 2022.
Adhika Ezra
Researcher
University of Regina
Transformative adaptation for homeless-related service providers during extreme weather events
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Adhika is a Social Studies graduate student at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan. Building on the work of critical homelessness and disaster scholars, his research explores homeless governance and responses to extreme weather events. He is currently involved in other research projects such as community-campus response to crisis, climate hazards and extractive industries, and water adaptation.
