The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organizations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to Vladimir Kendrovski, representative of the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health. She will be a speaker at the CACCC-2021 thematic session on сlimate policy and the role of civil society.
Dr Vladimir Kendrovski is a medical doctor and specialist in hygiene and environment and health. He works as a technical officer for climate change and health in the WHO Regional Office for Europe.
Within the Water and Climate Programme in WHO European Centre for Environment and Health in Bonn, Germany Dr. Kendrovski provides expert’s input to team’s projects and tasks in the area of climate change adaptation. He provides and facilitates access of the Member States to technical expertise and programmes enhancing their climate change health risk assessment and management capacities. He also assists Member States of WHO European Region in the development and implementation of policies in relation to climate change, extreme events and health issues. He promotes training and national capacity development on climate change and health.
Before joining the World Health Organization in 2012, Dr. Kendrovski was Associate Professor in the Department of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Medical Faculty, University Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia.
He also served eight years as Head of Sector for Environmental Health at the National Institute for Public Health, and during this time was President of the Institute’s Executive Board from 2009 to 2012.
Also, he was a member of the ECDC Advisory Board from 2010 to 2012 and a national expert for the EFSA and WHO IHR. Dr Kendrovski was President of the Macedonian National Association of Environmental Health specialists from 2007-2012, an editor in chief of the Macedonian journal Archives of Public Health (2009-2012). His publications are available at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vladimir_Kendrovski2/publications
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021
