Climate and environmental change detrimentally affect children across all life stages. Helping to prevent, mitigate and adapt to the Environmental Health risks and impacts associated with climate and environmental change is key to protect and promote children's health and wellbeing. The UQ World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Children’s Health and the Environment – as part of the UQ Children's Health and Environment Program - assists and supports WHO in the Western Pacific Region as well as globally to achieve this for children across all life stages .
We specifically assist WHO to to address climate and environmental change challenges especially in the Pacific Island Country region :
- Strengthen strategic planning and implementation of Environmental Health Systems through intersectoral and multi-disciplinary collaboration
- Build comptencies, capacity and skills of health and other workers associated with Environmental Health functions and programs