Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generations - Heat and extremes
Tracks
Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generation
| Tuesday, October 14, 2025 |
| 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM |
| Bealey 3 |
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.
Prof Susan Harris Rimmer
Professor, Griffith Law School and Climate Action Beacon
Griffith University
A human rights approach to adapting to extreme heat
2:15 PM - 2:30 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.
Ms Tia Brullo
Research Fellow
University of Melbourne
Enabling adaptation: learning from case studies of best practice across Australia’s adaptation contexts
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Tia is a human geographer with research interests in climate change adaptation, urban sustainability and development. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, exploring examples of adaptation planning and practice undertaken in Australia to understand what enables ‘best practice’ adaptation.
Prof Winston Chow
Professor of Urban Climate & Co-Chair, IPCC WGII
Singapore Management University / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Facilitator
Biography