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In an attempt to understand the growing emergence of new diseases, which affect humans as well as animas, Indian Immunologicals organised a workshop titled, ‘Impact of Climate Chamge on Emergence of New Diseases’, on Thursday. The round table session of ‘Veterinary Health’ and ‘Human Health’

Eminent scientists, health and medical experts discuss future strategy to combat the diseases due to climate changes

The panel of experts who addressed the workshops

In an attempt to understand the growing emergence of new diseases, which affect humans as well as animas, Indian Immunologicals organised a workshop titled, ‘Impact of Climate Chamge on Emergence of New Diseases’, on Thursday. The round table session of ‘Veterinary Health’ and ‘Human Health’ saw industry veterans in each domain discussing strategies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases related to climate change with emphasis on development of new vaccines and effective diagnosis.


The first session was addressed by Prof. Andy Morse, Professor of Climate Impacts, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK on the projected impact of climate change on infectious diseases of animals. Dr RC Dhiman, Scientist G, National Institute of Malaria Research, Delhi gave a situational analysis of Climate change and vector borne diseases. Dr Anthony Wilson, Research Leader, Mathematical Biology of Vector borne diseases,


The Pirbright Institute, UK spoke about the attribution, prediction and mitigation of Climate change and vector borne diseases and Dr Arindam Basu, Senior Lecturer Researcher, Health Services Assessment Collaboration (HSAC), University of Canterbury,Christchurch, New Zealand spoke about How Climate change is related to infectious disease outbreak and how we can prevent it.


The day - long event was divided into two sessions, the first session consisted of workshops and the second session consisted of a round table. Eminent Indian and international medical and animal health professionals and professors were present at the workshop.


Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Secretary, Department of Health Research and Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India called for an interdisciplinary approach across various organisations to arrive at a road map. “Due to dietary changes, the nutrition value has gone down.

Additionally the treatment is becoming costlier hence, community involvement is necessary to make the desired changes to control the diseases,” he said. Ashok Kumar Angurana, IAS, Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India said, “There is an acute shortage of veterinarians in the country. As this issue is interdisciplinary we also seek support from State Government for allocating more and more resources to address the issue of disease control.”

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