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Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generations - Heat and extremes

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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 PM

Biography

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 PM

Biography

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 PM

Biography

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 PM

Biography

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 PM

Biography

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.
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