Climate change and global warming are already having a significant impact on public health and health care systems across the globe. Lack of infrastructure and preparedness result in systems that are ill-equipped to handle the challenges of increases in climate change-related deaths, acute and chronic illnesses, and resource strain. These issues disproportionately impact tribal communities and populations already experiencing significant disparities in care and access. Law and policy will be instrumental in determining the response to ongoing climate change issues, and will most certainly influence how healthcare and public health systems develop strategies for resilience and change.

Hosted in collaboration with Northeastern University Law Review (NULR), authors will present on papers to be published in an upcoming issue of the Law Review.

This year’s conference will take place in a hybrid format.

Attendees we welcome to join us in-person at Egan Research Center at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, or online via Zoom. Please register to receive the zoom links.

The conference keynote and plenary panel will be live-streamed to this page.

All are welcome to attend this free event but registration is required.

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USET Office of Environmental Resource Management Director Jerry Pardilla will be a panelist on the “Resiliency: Native Community and US Island Territories” session at 3:00 pm Eastern on Friday, April 15.