“Nuclear Weapons Today_ An Update of the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear War and the Medical Role in Preventing it” (10)

“Nuclear Weapons Today: An Update of the Humanitarian
Consequences of Nuclear War and the Role of Health
Professionals in Preventing it”
Monday, 27 May
19:00 – 19:50
Room IX, Palais des Nations
SIDE EVENT – 72ND WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY
Lars Pohlmeier, MD, Executive Committee Member of International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Board member of
IPPNW Germany
 
Clarisse Delorme, Advocacy Advisor, World Medical Association
Adrian Te Patu, Co-Vice President of the Public Health Association of
New Zealand, Member Governing Council at World Federation of
Public Health Associations, Chair of Indigenous Working Group
Erica Burton, RN, Senior Analyst, Nursing and Health Policy,
International Council of Nurses
 
Magnus Løvold, Policy Advisor, International Committee of the Red
Cross
 
 
Panel:
International Physicians
for the Prevention of
Nuclear War (IPPNW)
World Medical
Association (WMA)
World Federation of
Public Health
Association (WFPHA)
International Council of
Nurses (ICN)
Objective: Renew discussion of humanitarian consequences in light of the breakdown and
creation of new nuclear weapons treaties, increased threat of use of nuclear weapons, and more
precise studies of health and climate effects of nuclear war.