The 2024 Forecasting Healthy Futures (FHF) Global Summit was held on June 18-20 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which is held annually in the run-up to COP. Rector of Khazar University Assoc. Prof. Irada Khalilova participated in the summit.
The purpose of the global summit is to unite the climate and health communities to discuss climate change and its consequences for human health, as well as to identify opportunities and strategies for joint action.
On the first day, Kelly Willis, Managing Director of Forecasting Healthy Futures organizations, Yalchin Rafiyev, COP Lead Negotiator, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization (WHO), and COP28 Director-General Majid Al Suwaidi made opening remarks. The second day of the event was addressed by the Ambassador of the WHO Director General for Climate Change and Health, Vanessa Kerry, Executive Director of the largest health donor in the world - the Global Fund Peter Sands.
On the last day of the event, Azerbaijan's Deputy Minister of Health, Nadir Zeynalov, spoke about climate and human health. Furthermore, there was a COP Dialogue on Sustainable Development between representatives of COP26, COP27, COP28, and COP29. COP consultants held round tables to discuss the most important issues at the intersection of climate and health