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Under the Patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou

Delphi Economic Forum IX

April 10-13, 2024

Klea Katsouyanni

Professor of Public Health;

Imperial College London, (and Emeritus Professor National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Greece

Klea Katsouyanni is a Professor of Public Health, Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London and a Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School.

Her research focuses on the health effects of environmental stressors, mainly outdoor air pollution. She has been the Coordinator of the EU network APHEA which provided European-wide results on the short-term effects of air pollution and a Partner in several related international projects (e.g. PHEWE, AIRGENE, ESCAPE, ELAPSE, EuroHEAT, STEAM, EXHAUSTION, EXPANSE). Currently she is involved in the investigation of air pollution and the urban environment and health, ozone exposure and children’s respiratory health, source-specific particles and health, methodological issues such as the impact of measurement error on health effect estimates and the effects of extremely high temperatures on mortality.

She has been or is a member of several national and international advisory committees (E.C., W.H.O. etc) for environmental health topics. She is now a member of the European Respiratory Society Environment and Health Committee and of the WHO Global Air Pollution and Health Technical Advisory Group.

She has more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, h-index 108 (Google Scholar, 2023).

In 2006 she was awarded the John Goldsmith award for sustained and outstanding contributions to the knowledge and practice of Environmental Epidemiology by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE).

Wednesday 10

14.30 - 15.45
Sustainable Food Systems and Climate Change
location_onAmphictyon Hall | Anemolia Hotel, Arachova
Programming Partner: Academy of Athens, Research Center for Public Health Research & Education and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Environmental Health

United Nations COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, December 2023, signed by 134 countries: “WE, HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT...We affirm that agriculture and food systems must urgently adapt and transform in order to respond to the imperatives of climate change.” This session will address the key elements of a planetary health perspective for food system transformation and introduce plans to create a platform for science-policy exchange, sharing of best practices, and solutions-oriented discussions aimed at supporting governments at the national level for progressive action-based policy on nutrition, foods, climate change, and health.