Part 1: July 25, 2025, 9:00 AM – 2:30 PM EDT | 3:00 – 8:30 PM CEST
Part 2: August 5, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT | 3:00 – 6:30 PM CEST
Part 3: August 6, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT | 3:00 – 6:30 PM CEST
A Virtual Multi-Part Workshop Series
Join the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) for the second workshop in an information-gathering series to inform the Commission for the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions (the “Roadmap”). Building on the insights from the first workshop, this workshop will explore how to activate the levers of systems transformation to drive health-centered climate action. Across three parts and days, invited presentations and discussions will aim to:
- Identify the structural levers most critical to accelerating health-centered climate action and understand how these levers interact to drive systems transformation.
- Examine the enabling conditions that shape the feasibility and impact of these levers across diverse country and sectoral contexts.
- Distill real-world strategies and actions that have successfully mobilized these levers, highlighting what made them effective, who played critical roles, and under what conditions they gained traction.
- Surface critical barriers, trade-offs, synergies, and tipping points that shape the path to systems transformation, and distill actionable, cross-sector strategies that enable decision-makers to navigate complexity, align interests, and drive scalable impact.
Part 1 Agenda – Framing the Levers for Systems Transformation
- Opening Remarks
- Session 1: Framing the Levers of Systems Change
Establish a shared mental model for how systems transformation unfolds—from vision to implementation—and frame the core structural levers that will anchor the Roadmap’s strategic approach. - Session 2: Metrics That Move Systems
Explore how actionable metrics can both signal and drive system-level shifts, informing investments, governance, and policy choices, and advancing the Roadmap’s goal of turning health-positive climate ambition into accountable, scalable progress. - Session 3: Shifting Systems Through Culture, Narrative & Behavior
Explore how shifts in culture, narrative, and behavior have enabled large-scale systems change—and identify strategies, actors, and leverage points that can inform the Roadmap’s approach to accelerating people-centered climate-health transformation. - Closing Reflections
Workshop Planning Committee
- Saugato Datta, Venn Advisors
- Omnia El-Omrani, Global Climate & Health Alliance
- Mindy Hernandez, World Resources Institute
- Naoko Ishii, University of Tokyo
- Tamer Rabie, World Bank Group
- Simi Thambi, FAIRR Initiative
- Lorraine Whitmarsh, University of Bath
- Catherine E. Woteki, Iowa State University
About the Roadmap: Lead by the NAM, the Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions is a global initiative to place health at the center of climate action. By convening cross-sector leaders and leveraging evidence-based solutions, the Roadmap aims to drive transformative systems change that simultaneously reduces emissions, enhances climate resilience, and strengthens the foundations of human health and well-being.
Call for Information: The Commission welcomes concise, high-impact submissions to help inform the development of the Roadmap. We are especially seeking emerging evidence, case studies of successful approaches, key research questions, and practical insights that align climate action with health goals. Submissions may also highlight initiatives using systems change strategies or explicitly addressing health in climate efforts. Please send materials to [email protected].
The National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and National Academy of Medicine—collectively, the National Academies—are independent, non-partisan, and tax exempt. The mission of the National Academies is the provision of trusted, evidence-based advice. It is essential to the execution of the mission that participants in our meetings or events avoid political or partisan statements or commentary and maintain a culture of mutual respect. Statements and presentations made are solely those of the individual participants and do not necessarily represent the views of other participants or the National Academies.
