Climate Change: Understanding and Managing the Significant Health Impacts of Extreme Heat Events

Join us for this free accredited educational session where highly experienced and knowledgeable public health and medical experts will answer your questions and share best practices for managing the significant health impacts of extreme heat events. The webinar will include a panel of presenters and participants will be prompted to ask their questions in real-time using webinar technology. We encourage you to send your questions in early.

FORMAT

• Moderator and presenters visible via webcam
• Presentation slides visible on the webinar
• Audio live through your computer speakers
• Your questions sent via slido

CONNECTION DETAILS

Prior to the webinar you will receive an email from UBC CPD with connection details. If you do not receive this email, please check your spam folders. You should add "@ubc.ca" to your safe sender list. If you do not see the connection email, please contact us.

HOW TO ASK QUESTIONS

• The Question & Answer page is OPEN NOW — we encourage you to submit your questions early.
• Go to https://www.sli.do/ and enter the event ID # heatdome. Or go directly to https://app.sli.do/event/342vUtLXYr1Czw8jvuJxDA/
• Type out your question in the ‘type your question’ field and click ‘SEND'. You will see your question posted and you will be able to review questions that others have asked. Your questions can be asked anonymously, just leave your name out when posting your questions. Due to the high volume of questions received during the webinar, please try to avoid asking questions that have already been asked by someone else. To increase the likelihood of a particular question being asked, please up-vote it as described in the next bullet.
• Up-vote: feel free to click the thumbs up icon beside the questions you like as this will move those questions to the top of the queue and will increase the likelihood that they will be asked of the panel.
• Questions will be reviewed by the moderator and relayed to the presenters before the session and during the Q&A period.

Skills Gained

As a result of attending the webinar, healthcare professionals will be able to:

• Understand the health consequences of human exposure to extreme heat events
• Be able to identify individuals vulnerable to impacts from extreme heat events
• Recognize ways to provide support to patients before, during, and after extreme heat events

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