All medical students,
Medical residents in different branches
Allied health staff
General public and The Media,

On 14th April 2025, we’ll conduct a 2 hours lecture for Phase 3 Students of Atılım Univ.
Medical School with a subject of CLIMATE DISASTER & PUBLIC HEALTH

Here is the 56 slides PDF file (4,4 MB) :  Climate Disaster & Public Health

At the end of this lecture students will be able to :

• Define the concept of “Climate disaster”
• Describe the concept of “Public Health Disaster”
• Understand mutual relationships between Climate disaster & Public Health problems
• Develop awareness and responsibility on emerging & re-emerging Public Health problems due to climate disaster
• Conceive the counter-measures how to tackle this global problem

– Climate disaster is not a distant threat.
– It’s a current, accelerating crisis re–shaping global health.
– As future medical professionals, your role is critical:
– To understand, anticipate, and respond to these intertwined threats.
– Climate action is health action!
– And building resilience now is the only cure for what may otherwise become an overwhelming public health emergency.
– Reducing population growth rate is an absolute mandate.
– We can no longer separate planetary health from human health.
– Every degree of warming means more suffering, particularly for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable.
– But there is hope through knowledge, preparedness, and action, we can mitigate the damage.
– Your role is critical: As the next generation of medical professionals, You are not just caregivers,
– Climate change – a risk multiplier
– You are guardians of health in a changing climate.
– Everyone, has to minimize his/her carbon footprint; go green!

– Humanity should get rid of capitalistic-imperialist inhuman order.

– 1 child for 1 family! Urgent must..

Ahmet SALTIK, MD
Professor of Public Health
BA, Political Sciences & Public Administration
LLM, Health Law
www.ahmetsaltik.net         profsaltik@gmail.com
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