A presentation that introduces the program that I'm currently handling - Health Care Without Harm-Asia's Healthy Energy Initiative! The Healthy Energy Initiative aims to mobilize the health sector to advocate for cleaner, healthier, and more climate-friendly energy alternatives. Through education, network-building, collaborative research, and advocacy, the Initiative hopes to raise critical awareness, promote dialogue, and build consensus among health professionals and healthcare organizations around the nexus of climate change, energy, and human health.

1. HEALTHY ENERGY
INITIATIVE
Renzo Guinto, MD
Campaigner
Healthy Energy Initiative
Health Care Without Harm Asia

3. • Malaria
• Diarrhea
• Meningitis
• Dengue Fever
• Floods and Cyclones
• Drought
• Airborne Dispersion of
Hazardous Materials
• Heat Stress
• UV Radiation
• Pollens
• Air Pollution
Climate Change and Human Health

4. Health impacts of climate change

6. Climate Change as a Public Health Issue

10. Source: Dr. Gatan-Magturo, Department of Health

11. • Department Circular: Adaptation of
Climate Change Framework for Health
• Philippine Strategy on Climate Change
Adaptation for the Health Sector
• DOH Department Personnel Order No.
2010 – 2977: Creation of a Technical
Committee for Climate Change and
Health
• DOH Administrative Order No. 005 S.
2012: National Policy on Climate
Change Adaptation for Health Sector
• DOH Department Personnel Order No.
2011 – 2458: Creation of a Climate
Change Unit
The Philippine health sector has been doing
health-related climate efforts

12. # 3in the World
Risk Index 2013
# 6 in the
Climate Change
Risk Index in 2012

15. Coal Plants
19operating
44 in the pipeline

17. Naga City, Cebu
Mariveles, Bataan

18. Limay, Bataan
Masinloc, Zambales

25. Healthy Energy Initiative
Philippines
• Mobilize the health sector to advocate for cleaner,
healthier, and more climate-friendly energy
alternatives
• Raise critical awareness, promote dialogue, and
build consensus among health professionals and
healthcare organizations around the nexus of
climate change, energy, and human health

26. Education
Network-
building
Collaborative
research
Advocacy
Policy
Dialogue
Action
Healthy Energy Initiative
Philippines

27. Healthy Energy Initiative
Philippines
• Conducting roundtable discussions with key
stakeholders from within the health sector, such as
professional associations and health professions
schools, as well as representatives from other
sectors such as environment, energy, and
sustainable development;
• Development of advocacy and educational
materials for the health sector and the general
public;
• Forging research collaborations among academic
institutions locally and internationally;

28. Healthy Energy Initiative
Philippines
• Building a national network of advocates dedicated
to the climate, energy, and health nexus;
• Providing evidence-based inputs to government
agencies in the crafting of national climate, energy,
and health policies, and;
• Supporting climate justice and pro-renewable
energy advocates by gathering evidence on the
health implications of various energy options.

29. Healthy Energy Initiative
Philippines
• Mapping
• Secondary research
• Materials
development
Initial
• Round Tables
• Site Visits (Health
Assessments and
Documentation)
Build-Up • National
Conference
• Press Conference
• Publication
Culmination

30. What good does it do to treat
people’s illnesses…
…only to send them back to the
conditions that made them sick?

31. "Health is not everything,
but without health
everything is nothing."
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher