FPH Climate and Health Conference 2025 agenda

Time

Topic

Speaker

9:30

Registration

10:00 - 10:15

Opening address

• Kevin Fenton (FPH President)

10:15 - 11:15

Working in partnership with UKHSA Climate Change and Health Security Centre

• Lea Berrang Ford (Head of the UKHSA Centre for Climate and Health Security)
• Kanza Ahmed (Consultant in Global Public Health, UKHSA)

11:15 - 11:30

Break

11:30 - 12:00

Pathfinder Commission

• Rosemary Green (Head of the Planetary Health Research Group, LSHTM)

12:00 - 13:00

Regional networks: challenges and achievements

• Chair: Zafar Iqbal (Associate Medical Director Public Health, Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust)
• Emer O’Connell (Public Health Consultant, Greater London Authority)
• Jessica Marshall (Leadership Fellow, Yorkshire & the Humber Climate and Health, ADPH)
• Caroline Court (Public Health Consultant, Cornwall Council)
• Maria Van Hove (FPH Sustainable Development SIG Co-chair)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch & Posters

14:00 - 14:45

Fossil fuel advocacy: how to take action

• Chairs: Jessica Marshall (Leadership Fellow, Yorkshire & the Humber Climate and Health, ADPH) and Elizabeth Westwood (Public Health Specialty, Yorkshire & the Humber)
• Veronica Wignall (Co-director, Adfree Cities
• Amanda Pickard (Public Health Principal, Sheffield City Council)
• Darrell Gale (Director of Public Health, East Sussex County Council)

14:45 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 15:45

Leadership and resilience in an era of cascading risks

• Laurie Laybourn (Executive Director, Strategic Climate Risks Initiative)

15:45 - 16:30

Interactive plenary: What do public health professionals need to do now and where are the biggest opportunities to impact?

• Chair: Sue Atkinson (previous FPH Climate and Health Committee Chair and Global Climate and Health Alliance Chair) 
• Manira Ahmad (Chief Officer, Public Health Scotland)
• Rebecca Masters (Public Health Consultant, Public Health Wales)
• George Leahy (FPH Sustainable Development SIG member)

16:30 - 16:45

Concluding remarks and poster prize award

• Kevin Fenton (FPH President)
• Paul Johnstone (FPH Climate and Health Committee Chair)
• Anya Gopfert (FPH Sustainable Development SIG Co-chair)

16:45

Networking drinks