Panel 2: Understanding the linkages between the migration, environment and climate change (MECC) and migration health in the context of COVID-19, and promoting the inclusion of MECC dimensions in COVID-19 recovery efforts

Moderator: 
Ms. Monica Goracci, Director, Department of Migration Management

IOM Speakers: 

• Dr. Zsuzsanna Jakab, Deputy Director-General, WHO 
• Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar, Chair, Lancet Migration, and Climate Change and Migration Lead, Director, Institute for Global Health, University College London 
• Mr. Kristof Tamas, Senior Adviser, Ministry of Justice, Division for Migration and Asylum Policy, Sweden 
• Dr. Elizabeth Ferris, Research Professor, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University 
• Ms. Verena Knaus, Global Lead, Migration and Displacement, UNICEF