
Dear Colleagues,
We are proud to invite you to the 4th electronic conference, with the topic of Climate Change and Health in a broad perspective.
This means that we invite papers on a wide variety of health consequences of climate change in all regions of the world. The health effects could be very different if we increase the temperature from 5 to 10 °C compared to an increase from 35 to 40 °C. If we look at the mortality causes associated with climate change, the burden is obviously higher in tropical areas. However, if we add morbidity and complications for, e.g., reproductive health and pregnancy care, the situation might be very different. The spread of infectious diseases related to vector migration is also a very important topic, as is the situation of environmental exposure to contaminants and occupational health. We leave these topics to you with an open mind. Please participate and contribute to a high-quality conference with good science, and good and important messages to stakeholders and policy-makers around the world. We wish you a warm welcome to our electronic conference.
Relevant topics could include:
Reproductive Health and Climate Change
Vector Migration from a Climate Perspective
COVID-19 from a Climate Perspective
The Forgotten Tropical Diseases from a Climate Perspective
Cardiovascular Diseases and Climate Change
Occupational Health and Temperature Change
We are also open to alternative topics of high scientific quality.
Kind regards,
Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland
Chair of the 4th International Electronic Conference on Environmental Research and Public Health

University of Oulu, Finland;
A Senior Toxicologist at Arctic Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland. In 2010, he received his PhD from Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, Finland, specializing in environmental toxicology and human health risk assessment. In 2011, he has accorded the title of a Certified European Registered Toxicologist ‘ERT’ by the Federation of European Toxicologists & European Societies of Toxicology EUROTOX. In 2014, he has granted Adjunct Professor in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Helsinki, Finland.
University of Oulu, Finland;
Dr Rautio has been working in the topic of Arctic health and well-being since 2006. Her main research interests are on One health and climate change, Indigenous health and wellbeing, and research ethics. She is PI in several research projects funded by EU or national fundings and acting as a national key expert in the Human Health groups of the AMAP and member of SDWG of the Arctic Council. She is a board member of IUCH and Chair of NSCH, and a board member of the Arctic Society of Finland (2021-).
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway;
Shanshan Xu is a PhD candidate at the University of Bergen, Norway. Her research career has focused on the respiratory and environmental epidemiology. She has participated in several research projects about maternal environmental contaminants exposure and birth outcomes, endocrine disrupting chemicals, air pollution exposure and lung health. She is interested in statistics, education, and environmental policy.
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway;
Jon Øyvind Odland, MD, PhD, is a Professor of Global Health at NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a specialist in GYN/OB, environmental medicine, and epidemiology. He has worked on mother/child programs in more than 20 countries, these days focusing mostly on the Arctic, southern Asia, and Africa. His studies have mostly focused on the impact of the environment and infectious disease on fetal development and pregnancy outcome. He has a scientific production of ca. 200 peer-reviewed papers and is now involved in a new study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers, the healthcare system, and the general population in southern Africa.
During the e-conference, four live sessions have been scheduled. We have invited some speakers to share their latest research. Also, a number of excellent submissions have been selected, and these works will be presented during the live sessions by the authors. During each live session, the participants will have the chance to ask questions in the “open for discussion” section.
The live sessions are free for everyone. If you are interested in attending, please register in advance for your chosen session by clicking the "Webinar Registration" buttons which are showing in below live sessions program.
Ms. Sylvia Li
Ms. Louisa Zhou
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing, China
E-Mail: ecerph-4@mdpi.com
For information regarding sponsoring opportunities, please contact the conference secretariat.