The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Health Community of Practice will hold the Day 1 of the Annual Meeting 2024 on Tuesday, December 3 from 8:30-11:00AM EST (GMT-5). Our primary goal is to discuss approaches to operationalizing One Health as a cross-cutting theme supporting the GEO Post-2025 Strategy across the GEO Work Programme.
Goals:
To operationalize One Health as a cross-cutting theme supporting the GEO Post-2025 Strategy across the GEO Work Programme.
To strengthen communication with regional GEOs and identify synergies for potential collaborations.
To reinforce the CoP engagement in the GEO Global Heat Resilience Service and Ecosystem Atlas.
Agenda:
Opening Session (8:30–9:10AM EST/GMT-5)
Welcome Words from Co-Chairs (John Haynes, NASA; Juli Trtanj, NOAA)
Welcome Words from the GEO Secretariat (Wenbo Chu, GEO Secretariat)
GEO Health CoP Highlights 2024 from Co-Chairs (John Haynes, NASA; Juli Trtanj, NOAA)
Communications of GEO Health CoP Activities (Helena Chapman, NASA/BAH; Matt Crook, GEO Secretariat)
Key Regional Health Highlights 2024 (9:10–9:50AM EST/GMT-5)
EuroGEO (Haris Kontoes, National Observatory of Athens)
AmeriGEO (including LACI) (Elliott Matthews, NOAA & Brian Leung, U.S. Global Change Research Program, USGCRP)
Discussion
Break
Panel on Operationalizing One Health (10:00-10:40AM EST/GMT-5)
Moderators: Helena Chapman (NASA/BAH), Stacie Dunkle (World Health Organization), Alice Hughes (The Univ. of Hong Kong), and Patrice Klein (U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service)
Dengue Workshops at AmeriGEO Week 2023-2024 (Alice Lau, NOAA)
Cholera Forecasting Workshops at AfriGEO Symposia 2023-2024 (Antar Jutla, Univ. of Florida)
Air Quality Workshop at AmeriGEO Week 2024 (Carl Malings, NASA GSFC/Morgan State Univ.)
Discussion, Next Steps & Closing (10:40-11:00AM EST/GMT-5)
Discussion on Cross-cutting Engagements with the GEO Secretariat, International Organizations, Regional GEOs, and CoP members (John Haynes, NASA; Juli Trtanj, NOAA)