Digital Health and Climate Justice
Event Overview
Digital health technologies hold promise of greening healthcare by reducing visits to hospitals, encouraging prevention, and optimising processes and health pathways. At the same time, the environmental costs of AI and digital infrastructures have increasingly been highlighted by media and academic research. During this 2-hour session we would like to address questions such as:
- What does climate justice mean in the context of digital health?
- How to understand the severity of these costs and weigh them against the expected health and environmental benefits of digital technologies?
- Who will get the benefits and who will bear these costs?
- How to ensure that these costs and benefits are fairly distributed across groups and populations?
All are welcome. To book tickets click here.
This event is held in association with the Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit, as part of the Oxford Local Programme of events themed around climate change, human rights, and climate justice.
FIND US
This event will take place in the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub at Jesus College, Oxford. The Hub entrance is on Market Street (opposite Wagamama). The Hub is accessible, with automatic double doors at the entrance and lifts to and from the main lower ground floor event space.
If you have any accessibility requirements, please do contact digitalhub@jesus.ox.ac.uk and we are happy to help.
*Filming and photography will be taking place during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please notify a member of the Hub team on arrival.
