Health Organization, and General membership of BEMA International:
Although
BEMA International membership application was not accepted for
the Global Climate and Health Alliance (GCHA, https://climateandhealthalliance.org/
), nor aligned with current members of the GCHA:
- Center for Climate Change Communication
- UWI (University of West Indies, St.
Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago)
- Zimbabwe Climate Change Coalition
- Youth Advocacy and Development Network-Uganda
- Other non-health organizations
To our members in the medical
profession (physicians, nurses, etc.), CDC (Center for Disease
Control), public health organizations, medical schools, and within the island
nations in the UWI sphere submit your organization applications in the GCHA and
continue to advocate for equitable health in every aspect for all communities
and members of the ‘WHOLE COMMUNITY’ and the interrelationship of
climate change to individual health.
The COVID-19 pandemic of
2019-Present, and even during the Ebola Crisis of 2014-Present focused on the
need for community engagement and participation in the planning, preparedness,
response, long-term recovery, mitigation, and adaption to these crisis events
associated with human contact, directly and indirectly climate related
events.
Emergency management is
integrated into every critical infrastructure sector of communities and each
member of BEMA International in any sector plays a key role as part of a vast
systems in addressing not only your local, but greater ‘global’ community in planning,
preparedness, and each of the phases of emergency management for the
survivability of you, your family, and community. Climate change must be factored into not only
healthcare but each of the critical infrastructure sectors with community
engagement and participation.
Keep in mind:
“You have
to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to
do it all the time.” —Angela Davis
Be safe, stay healthy, be
prepared.
CDS
Charles
D. Sharp
Chair\CEO
Black
Emergency Managers Association International
Cornell University Climate Fellow
Deputy Chair, Global Health Security
Agenda Consortium
Washington,
D.C. 20020
bEMA International
Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication,
Coordination, Community engagement, and Partnering (C5&P) A 501 (c) 3 organization
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