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, synergies, trade-offs, 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 2 Agenda – Financing the Shift Towards Systems Transformation
- Opening Remarks
- Session 4: Rethinking Economic Value in Climate-Health Action
Unpack how current economic systems value—or undervalue—climate-health solutions, and explore practical shifts in valuation frameworks, decision-making norms, and institutional incentives that prioritize well-being, sustainability, and resilience. - Session 5: Mobilizing & Redirecting Capital
Explore how financial architecture, investment vehicles, and institutional reforms can translate redefined value into real capital flows, surfacing practical insights to fund climate-health solutions at the pace and scale required. - Closing Reflections
Part 3 Agenda – Enabling Systems Transformation Through Governance & Policy
- Opening Remarks
- Session 6: Governing for Systems Change
Surface multilevel governance architectures—from global compacts to sub-national taskforces—that successfully align climate and health agendas, and distill the coordination functions, power dynamics, and incentive structures the Roadmap must address to support durable, integrated systems change. - Session 7: Legal & Policy Levers for Systems Change
Examine how legal, regulatory, and policy instruments can embed accountability, shift power, and enable systems-level change by aligning policies, actors, and incentives across sectors and country contexts to advance scalable climate-health solutions. - 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.
