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About The Speakers
Dr. Karim Abu-Omar
Dr. Karim Abu-Omar is a lecturer at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany, and Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity and Public Health at FAU since 2014. He holds a MA in Sociology and a PhD in Medical Sociology. He is actively involved in researching the links between climate change, sports, and exercise, serving as an invited member in the WHO Europe Expert Group on NCD and Climate Change in 2022 and co-chairing the HEPA Europe Working Group on Environmental Approaches to HEPA Promotion. Abu-Omar is also a member of the Climate Action Committee for the International Society on Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Additionally, he focuses on promoting physical activity among vulnerable groups and played a role in developing the German Recommendations for Physical Activity and Physical Activity Promotion in 2017.
Dr. Shawnda Morisson
Dr. Shawnda Morrison (PhD, CSEP-CEP) is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. She is technical lead of the project “Cooling Singapore 2.0” an interdisciplinary initiative to determine how physical activity in the heat impacts vulnerable populations like children, heat-unacclimatised adults, and the elderly. This work is being conducted to better individualise the heat-health warning systems recently launched in Singapore. Dr. Morrison is a Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist from the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology, and Principle Investigator or member for the Republic of Slovenia on several international initiatives aimed to get children more physically active, including: Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, the FitBack Network, and Outdoor Play Canada. Her main research interests are in environmental exercise physiology, thermoregulation, and countermeasures to exertional heat strain. Her studies on the neuromuscular demands associated with passive heat stress and cardiovascular strain in the heat have helped inform her work to advocate for greater engagement using physical activity as a climate change countermeasure, especially for children.
Webinar Details – 20 Oct 2023
Welcome Speech & Introduction
"Interconnections between climate change and sport and exercise" by Professor Dr. Karim Abu-Omar
"Maintaining childhood fitness as a climate change countermeasure" by Dr. Shawnda Morrison
Q&A
Conclusion
*Times shown above are based on Bangkok, Thailand time (GMT +7)