2024 Pre-Forum 1
'International Symposium on Environmental Health Indicators' related to climate change sessions as a pre-forum
The international symposium on climate change related to the main forum climate change session will be held as a preliminary forum.
In order to facilitate more in-depth discussions at the 2024 WHCF scheduled for November, a total of three pre-forums for the main forum are planned. The first pre-forum is scheduled to take place on June 21st (Friday) at the SNU Medicine, Administration Building 301 Auditorium and will be held as the International Symposium on Climate Change. This pre-forum is co-hosted by WHO ACE, the Ministry of Environment, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and WHCF, and is organized by the Environmental Health Center (Seoul, Gangwon, Jeju), under the event name "International Symposium on Environmental Health Indicators"
The content presented and discussed at this pre-forum will be supplemented and added to the formal presentation at the November WHCF main forum.
The pre-forums, which will be held over three sessions, are all scheduled to be live-streamed on the official WHCF YouTube channel.
| Time | Program | Presenter |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Registration | MC : MinGu Jun (Master of Disaster Risk & Resilience) |
Opening & Keynote Speech | ||
| 10:00 ~ 10:05 | Opening Remark | Teahee Kim (SMC Director General) |
| 10:05 ~ 10:10 | Welcome Remark | Gye-Young Hwang (KMOE Director General) |
| 10:10 ~ 10:50 | Keynote Speech
| 1. Akeem ALi (WHO ACE, Head of office) 2. Yun-Chul Hong (Seoul EHC) |
Session 1 : Experiences on national level indicators from WPR | Chair: THONDOO, Meelan(WHO ACE) | |
11:00 ~ 11:20 | Creating Smart Health City Standard: A Comprehensive Analysis of Global Practices, tandards, Indicators, and Stakeholder Engagement | Todd Cort (Faculty Co-Director of the Yale Center for Business and Environment) |
11:20 ~ 11:30 | Case Sharing : Australia | Ivan Hannigna, Adi Vyas |
11:30 ~ 11:40 | Case Sharing : Japan | Masahiro Hashizume |
11:40 ~ 11:50 | Case Sharing : Singapore | Rabindre Abeyasinghe |
11:50 ~ 12:30 | Panel Discussion | |
12:30 ~ 13:30 | Lunch | |
Session 2 : Introduction to Korean local government indicators | Chair: Woo Jin Kim (Gangwon EHC) | |
13:30 ~ 13:50 | Suggestion for local government to design and utilize environmental health indicators | Dawoon Jung (KEI) |
13:50 ~ 14:00 | Case Sharing : Seoul | Myung Sook Park (Seoul EHC) |
14:00 ~ 14:10 | Case Sharing : Jeju | Ji Eun Kim (Jeju EHC) |
14:10 ~ 14:20 | Case Sharing : Gangwon | Myung-Nam Lim (Gangwon EHC) |
14:20 ~ 14:50 | Panel Discussion | Discussants |
14:50 ~ 15:10 | Coffee Break | |
Session 3 : Lessons learnt and recommendations on indicators from thematic areas | Chair : Rok Ho Kim (Dr.) | |
15:00 ~ 15:20 | Development of Environment and Health Indicators for European Union Countries | Dr. Matthias Brauchbach (WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, Bonn office) |
15:20 ~ 15:30 | Air Quality Indicators | Enkhee Shinee (Coordinator at WHO/ACE) |
15:30 ~ 15:40 | WASH Indicators | Rich Johnston (Technical Officer, Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), WHO/HQ) |
15:40 ~ 15:50 | Climate change and Health Indicators | Sally Edwards (Coordinator at WPRO) |
15:50 ~ 16:20 | Panel Discussion | Discussants |
16:20 ~ 17:00 | Stock taking of recommendations Wrap up | Moderator: Yun Chul Hong (Seoul EHC), Discussants |
