Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generations - Gender and Equity
Tracks
Health, Wellbeing, and Future Generations
Monday, October 13, 2025 |
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Speaker
Mrs Celine Campagna
Scientific Programming Coordinator
Ouranos
The wicked problem of the integration of equity in adaptation solutions: an innovative approach by Ouranos, a boundary organization in Québec, Canada
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMBiography
Céline Campagna has been the Program Coordinator for the priority on Social and Health Challenges, within the Adaptation Science team at the Ouranos consortium since July 2024. Previously, she coordinated the Climate and Health program for the government at the National Institute of Public Health of Quebec for a decade.
Mr Bekalu Chekol
Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor
IPAS
Impacts of drought on sexual and gender-based violence incidence, service, and responses in Ethiopia
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMBiography
Bekalu Mossie is a Senior Research and Evaluation Advisor for Ipas Ethiopia. He received his bachelor's degree in Statistics and MBA in Measurement & Evaluation from Addis Ababa University. In his role at Ipas, he has been conducting Research and Evaluation projects on Sexual and Reproductive Health.
Ms Isabella Lenihan-Ikin
DPhil Candidate
University of Oxford
Climate change and health risks, adaptation and responsibility: early insights from outdoor workers in Aotearoa
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Isabella Lenihan-Ikin (she/her) is a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, where she is studying on a Rhodes Scholarship form Aotearoa New Zealand. Her research focuses on the health impacts of climate change on outdoor workers in Aotearoa.
Dr David Mbugua
World Vision Canada
Paid and unpaid care work in the context of climate change: gendered impacts on health, wellbeing, and future generations in the Oromia region of Ethiopia
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
David Mbugua is an international development practitioner with over 25 years experience in food security, environment, climate change and gender programming. He is currently managing a multimillion-dollar gender-transformative, resilience-building project, in Ethiopia, funded by Global Affairs Canada. David was a researcher with Cornell University and KARI before joining World Vision.
Alicia Lopez, a Climate Change Technical Specialist at World Vision Canada, has 15+ years of experience in environmental leadership. She has worked with GIZ, FAO, UN agencies, and global partners on REDD+, AFOLU, and climate projects, ensuring environmental integration, adaptation, mitigation, and safeguard compliance in international development initiatives.
Dr Colette Mortreux
Lecturer
Monash University
Social reproduction and the gendered nature of climate change impacts in the Republic of the Marshall Islands
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Colette is a Human Geographer from Monash University. Her research explores how households navigate climate risk and how adaptation policy can more effectively support community resilience. Previous research has examined the political economy of climate resettlement, adaptation pathways for atoll communities, and the limits of adaptive capacity in explaining adaptation.
Prof Tin Tin Su
Department of Global Population Health
Monash University Malaysia
Systematic co-designing community-based heat adaptation toolkits in semi-rural Malaysia
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
TinTin is a public health physician and professor at Monash University Malaysia. She became a director of the recently established “Regional Hub for Asia Climate Change and Health (REACH)” to advance research that promotes climate literacy, empowers communities, strengthens health systems and supports climate-vulnerable groups in Southeast and South Asia.
