Joy Shumake-Guillemot leads the Joint Office for Climate and Health between the World Health Organization and World Meteorological Organization (WHO/WMO) in Geneva, Switzerland. She is an environmental health scientist and public health practitioner who has spent twenty years working amongst international organizations and developing countries to develop public health policy and programming for climate adaptation and risk management. Her current work focuses on enabling interagency and interdisciplinary cooperation to improve science and systems for climate services and preparedness for the future risks of climate change in the health sector.
Kristie L. Ebi is Professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment, University of Washington. She has been conducting research and practice on the health risks of climate variability and change for over twenty years, focusing on understanding sources of vulnerability, estimating current and future health risks of climate change, designing adaptation policies and measures to reduce the risks of climate change in multi-stressor environments, and estimating the health co-benefits of mitigation policies. She has been an author on multiple national and international climate change assessments, including the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C. She has edited four books on aspects of climate change and has more than 200 publications.
Nicole Dawkins-Wright is currently the Director of Emergency, Disaster Management and Special Services Branch of the Technical Services Division for the Jamaican Ministry of Health and Wellness. She is also the designated focal point for Climate Change and by extension, Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of the Health Sector Component of Jamaica’s Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) and the PAHO Smart Health Care Facilities in the Caribbean Project. Her current focus is to design and implement enhancement in programs for emergency medical services, disaster risk reduction, and the core capacities of international health regulations. In times of national emergency and imminent or actual disaster situations, this requires coordinating the health aspect of disaster response and subsequently mainstreaming the health aspect of the post-disaster recovery program, incorporating the “build back better” strategy.
Stephen Dorey is a public health doctor working in the Health- Climate and Environment Program (H-CEP) at the World Bank. His work over the last 15 years has centered around the interface between public health systems and the environment, with the health impacts of climate change a central part of this. He first trained as a clinical doctor in Scotland and the North of England and after four years on the wards in the UK made the move into public health in the East End of London. Following public health training Stephen has held a number of governmental and intergovernmental roles including with the UK government, WHO EURO, and the Commonwealth Secretariat before joining the World Bank two years ago to establish the H-CEP program.