Tackling the Common Corporate Drivers of Global Warming and Noncommunicable Diseases
Fri, Sep 26, 2025
10:00 AM–11:30 AM
This is a hybrid event which will take place in Skylight Room (9100) at the CUNY Graduate Center and online via Zoom. Free and open to all. Registration required.
Watch the video recording of this panel discussion below:
As part of Climate Week NYC, join the NYC Climate Justice Hub with the CUNY School of Public Health (SPH) and the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute for “Tackling the Common Corporate Drivers of Global Warming and Noncommunicable Diseases: Towards a Shared Agenda for Averting Public and Planetary Health Disasters”.
The panel, scheduled to coincide with the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (Sept. 21–27), will address issues like the corporate structures and practices that contribute to climate change, health and food inequality, and the rise in chronic health conditions (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases); potential collective action against these problems; and predatory and racialized marketing of unhealthy food to Black and Latino communities. The format will be a moderated discussion with panelists, followed by group dialogue.
The hybrid event takes place in the Skylight Room (9100) at the CUNY Graduate Center and onlinve via Zoom and is free and open to all! If you are unable to attend in person, you can join online.
Opening Remarks:
- Etienne Krug, Director for Health Determinants, Promotion, and Prevention, WHO
Panelists:
- Paula Johns, ACT Brasil, President and founder, a Brazilian health activist coalition of over a thousand members
- Alejandro Calvillo, Director, El Poder del Consumidor, Mexico, an organization of citizens concerned about their rights as consumers who seek to build a socially just and environmentally sustainable world
- Jessica Fanzo, Professor of Climate, Director of the Food for Humanity Initiative, Columbia Climate School
- Nicholas Freudenberg, Professor Emeritus of Public Health, CUNY School of Public Health
- Others to be announced
Moderator:
- Nevin Cohen, Director, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, and Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
This event is co-sponsored by CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, CUNY School of Public Health and the NYC Climate Justice Hub, and the Center for Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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