Committee on Climate Change and Toxic Environmental Exposures

The main purpose of the Committee on Climate Change and Toxic Environmental Exposures (C2TE2) is to advance a global strategy to address exposures to harmful environmental toxins and effects of climate change. The Committee’s work underpins all of FIGO’s Divisions and Committees by highlighting the impact of the environment on every aspect of women and girls’ health across their lifespan.

Committee Objectives

• Strengthen the role of FIGO member societies in their involvement on the issue of climate change and toxic environmental exposures (collaboration among members, organisation of continuing medical education activities and webinars).
• Publish an article on the existence of climate change and toxic environmental exposures.
• Contribute to the incorporation of climate change and toxic environmental exposures into medical school and residency curricula.
• Advocate for policies to mitigate exposures to environmental toxicants and climate change.
• Support and invest in quality research on toxic environmental exposures and climate change.

Committee Members

Chair

Professor Krishnendu Gupta – India

Members

Dr Nathaniel DeNicola – Past Chair – USA

Dr Shahadu Shembla Sayibu – Ghana

Professor Rattana Kim – Cambodia

Professor Giuseppe Bifulco – Italy

Professor Elie Azria – France

Professor Annette Hasenburg – Germany

Dr Francisco Edna Estrada – Colombia

WATOG representative

Dr Juliet Whittaker – New Zealand

Associate Members

Dr Bruce Bekkar – USA

Dr Laxmi Shrikhande – India

Dr Nino Berdzuli – Poland

Ex-Officio Trustee