Webinario 3 | Construcción de resiliencia climática a través de sistemas de conocimiento local, innovación digital y equidad territorial

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) at Columbia University invite you to the third and final webinar in the 2026 Climate, Environment, and Health for the Americas Series—Mobilizing Transdisciplinary Knowledge and Training for Public Policy Action.

The event will showcase how the integration of local knowledge systems, digital innovation, agroecology, and territorial governance models strengthens resilience and equity in the face of climate change in the Americas. Transdisciplinary solutions will be presented, ranging from dialogue on ancestral knowledge to address nutritional and climate vulnerability to the design of interoperable data platforms, satellite monitoring for early health alerts, and the regulation of tourism’s socio-environmental impacts.

Date: Wednesday, November 18, 2026

Time: 9:00–10:30 a.m. (Panama time)

Format: Zoom, with simultaneous interpretation

Projects and Presentations
· SG-CEH-09 (Jamaica): Risks related to the climate-health-environment nexus in the “sharing economy” hospitality sector. Kalim Shah, University of Delaware, United States.
· SG-CEH-03 (Chile): Use of satellite data to assess the relationship between climate factors, water quality, and infectious diseases. Rayana Palharini, MICROB-R, Metropolitan Technological University, Chile.
· SG-CEH-06 (Bolivia): The Ayllu resilience mechanism based on a dialogue of knowledge to strengthen food security in the community of Micaya, La Paz. Noemí Tirado Bustillos, Institute of Genetics, School of Medicine, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia.
· SG-CEH-08 (Uruguay): Climate change, health, and agroecology from a transdisciplinary perspective: experiences of the women’s collective of the Uruguay Agroecology Network. Soledad Nión Celio, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
· SG-CEH-11 (Argentina): Toward an integrated digital platform for FAIR data on the climate-environment-health nexus. Sonia Pou and Camila Niclis, Institute for Health Sciences Research (INICSA), CONICET – National University of Córdoba, Argentina.

Moderator: Carlos Barboza (Uruguay), scientific advisor to the Minister of National Defense.

Participation is free, with prior registration required: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E4AszjbLSvWV6WHCAAjpLw