Climate Change & Health Promotion Unit, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare

Climate Change & Health Promotion Unit

Bangladesh

in recent years has experienced some severe effects of climate change. The destructive paths left by Sidr and Aila are just to begin with. But other natural disasters like flood and draught are also having their drastic effects throughout the years in the lives of the people of

Bangladesh

.The current and emerging climate change-related health risks in Bangladesh include heat stress and water- and food-borne diseases (e.g. cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases) associated with extreme weather events. Read more...

Recent Activities

CCHPU Participated in Environment Fair '2011

Date: 5-7 June, 2011

Location: Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka.

CCHPU Participated in Environment Fair '2011

Date: 5-7 June, 2011

Location: Bangabandhu International Conference Center, Dhaka.

Conference on 'Partner's for Health in South-East Asia'

Date: 18 March, 2011.

Location: New Delhi, India.

Conference on 'Partner's for Health in South-East Asia'

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Date: 18 March, 2011.

Location: New Delhi, India.

Conference on 'Partner's for Health in South-East Asia'

Date: 18 March, 2011.

Location: New Delhi, India.

Conference on 'Partner's for Health in South-East Asia'

Date: 18 March, 2011.

Location: New Delhi, India.

CCHPU Participated in Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

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Date: 16-18 May, 2011.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland.

CCHPU Participated 64th World Health Assembly

Date: 16-18 May, 2011.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland.

CCHPU Participated in Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly

Date: 16-18 May, 2011.

Location: Geneva, Switzerland.

Latest News

1st National Conference of Youth Think Tank

Climate Change and Health

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The First National Conference of Youth Think Tank on Climate Change and Health organized by Climate Change and Health Promotion Unit (CCHPU) of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare was held at the Bangladesh Forest Department in Agargaon, Dhaka from May 24-25, 2012.