Presentations & Conferences

2025

Dec 2025. Seminar for the the Subsecretaria de Redes Asistenciales of the Ministry of Health, Chile. Talk "Planetary health: a systemic approach to sustainable development"

Dec 2025. Academic Seminar. Organised by School of Health Sciences, UC Chile. Talk: "Global evidence on heat, risks in productive sectors and occupational health: a perspective from Lancet Countdown"

Dec 2025. 57th Chilean Congress of Respiratory Diseases in Coquimbo. Organised by Sociedad de Enfermedades Respiratorias. Talk "The effects of heatwaves on population health: a perspective from Lancet Countdown". 

Nov 2025. Technical Seminar: “Extreme Temperatures in Chile: Challenges for Occupational Health”. Organised by Instituto de Salud Publica de Chile and Lancet Countdown. Talk "Global evidence on heat, risks in productive sectors and occupational health: a perspective from Lancet Countdown" https://www.ispch.gob.cl/temperaturas-extremas-en-chile-desafios-para-la-salud-ocupacional/ 

Nov 2025. Academic Seminar School of Public Health. Organised by School of Public Health, UC Chile. Talk: "Global evidence on heat, risks in productive sectors and occupational health: a perspective from Lancet Countdown" https://youtu.be/r8m3bSMB-4o?si=GeOk0sH2YGmPfrxT 

Nov 2025. Congreso Chileno de Medicina del Trabajo in Concepcion [Chilean Congress of Occupational Medicine]. Organised by Sociedad Chilena de Medicina del Trabajo. Talk "Planetary health: a systemic approach to sustainable development" https://www.sochmet.cl/congreso-2025/ 

Apr 2025. Webinar “Health, water, and climate change in today's globalization". Organised by Organismo Andino de Salud (ORAS-CONHU) and the Copenhagen Institute for future studies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo9q6f89IlU 

Jan 2025. Multinational Nursing and Midwifery Exchange on Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare. Penn Nursing Virtual Exchange, USA. Talk: “Lancet Countdown and Healthcare Sustainability”

2024

Dec 2024. Seminar: Reporte The Lancet Countdown 2024: Salud, cambio climático y desafíos para Chile [The 2024 report of The Lancet Countdown: Health, climate change and challenges for Chile]. Organised by Centro de Políticas Públicas UC Chile and Lancet Countdown. Talk “The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action”.

Dec 2024. II Congreso Chileno de Medicina del Trabajo, Chile [II Chilean Congress of Occupational Medicine, Chile]. Talk “The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change Latin America”.

Dec 2024. II Congreso Chileno de Medicina del Trabajo, Chile [II Chilean Congress of Occupational Medicine, Chile]. Pre-congress short-course “Construcción de indicadores para analizar la relación entre el cambio climático y salud poblacional” [Construction of indicators to analyse the relationship between climate change and population health]. 

Nov 2024. Seminar: Climate change, health & ethics. Organised by Universiti Malaya and the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research, WHO. Talk “The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action”. 

Nov 2024. Global Forum on Bioethics in Research: Ehical issues arising in research into health and climate change. Confence organised by WHO. Behrens, K., Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (chairs). Session: “Interdisciplinary approaches, co-production & integrating indigenous knowledge”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2OX-Itd4c  

Nov 2024. Workshop: "Impactos del cambio climático en la salud: lo que investiga la ciencia y lo que el periodismo tiene que saber". Organised by Salud sin Dano. Talk "Una mirada integral sobre cómo se estudian estos fenómenos y sus impactos económicos " https://lac.saludsindanio.org/foro-taller-impactos 

Nov 2024. Aula em clima e saúde [Lecture on climate change and health]. Organised by Fiocruz, Brazil. Talk “Relatório do LCLA e os desafios da agenda de mudança do clima para a saúde” [“LCLA Report and the Challenges of the Climate Change Agenda for Health”]

Oct 2024. XIX Congreso Nacional de Informadores de la Salud en Santander, España “Rediseñando el periodismo de salud. Los desafíos informativos frente al cambio climático, la crisis de los medios y la desinformación” [XIX National Congress of Health Journalists in Santander, Spain “Redesigning health journalism. The information challenges facing climate change, the media crisis and misinformation”]. Organised by: Asociacion Nacional de Informadores de la Salud. Talk: “Climate change and health – Evidence from the Lancet Countdown” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOP18HFl2yY 

Oct 2024. Latin American Week 2024 – St Gallen University, Switzerland. Panel “Climate Change and Adaptation in Latin America by CLOC Conéctate A”. Talk: “Climate change and health in Latin America – Evidence from the Lancet Countdown Latin America”

Sep 2024. II Congreso Virtual Iberoamericano de Salud Ambiental SIBSA Salud Ambiental, Argentina [II Ibero-American Virtual Congress on Environmental Health SIBSA Environmental Health, Argentina]. Conference commentator.

Sep 2024. Webinar “Diálogos SALURBAL-Clima: Arborización Urbana en América Latina: Estrategias para Combatir el Calor Extremo y Mejorar la Salud” [“Urban Tree Planting in Latin America: Strategies to Combat Extreme Heat and Improve Health.”]. Organised by SALURBAL-CLIMA. Talk: “Cambio climático y salud: Exceso de muertes asociadas a olas de calor en Chile” [Climate change and health: Excess deaths associated with heatwaves in Chile]

Sep 2024. Diploma “Ética climática para la gestión local y el desarrollo” [Climate ethics for local management and development]. Organized by Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. Talk: “Impactos del cambio climático en la salud poblacional y acciones climáticas de adaptación y mitigación” [Impacts of climate change on population health and climate adaptation and mitigation actions]

Aug 2024. Webinar “Cambio climático y salud en Chile: Analizando perspectivas para la acción” [Climate change and health in Chile: Analysing perspectives for action]. Organized by Ministerio de Salud de Chile and Lancet Countdown Latin America. Talk: “Cambio climático y salud: Mortalidad y temperatura en Chile” [Climate change and health: Mortality and temperature in Chile] (I co-organised this webinar) https://degreyd.minsal.cl/cambio-climatico-y-salud-en-chile-analizando-perspectivas-para-la-accion/ 

Aug 2024. U21 Health Sciences meeting. Student Challenge 2024. Talk: “Climate change and health”

Aug 2024. Course MED842 “Salud Planetaria y Cambio Social: Estrategias para la Acción” [Planetary Health and Social Change: Strategies for Action]. Organised by Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Universidad Católica de Chile. Talk: “Introducción a la Salud Planetaria: Conceptos Básicos” [Introduction to Planetary Health: Basic Concepts]

Jun 2024. International Summer School 2024. Organised by Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico. Talk: “Cambio climático y sostenibilidad: ¿Por qué formarnos en estas áreas? [Climate change and sustainability: Why do we need to be trained in these areas?]

Jun 2024. Academic discussion with Research College of Mexico, Veracruz, Mexico. Talk: “Climate change and public health: Why is this a problem?”

Jun 2024. Science to Public and Public to Science Conversation. Organised by University of Graz, Austria. Talk: “Climate change and health: Evidence from The Lancet Countdown Latin America”.

Jun 2024. Launch of the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Latin America in Mexico. Organised by Lancet Countdown Latin America, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP).

Jun 2024. Launch of the 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change in Latin America in Argentina. Organised by Lancet Countdown Latin America and Health Without Harm.

Apr 2024. Launch “9no reporte sostenibilidad Clínica Alemana”. Organised by Clínica Alemana, Santiago, Chile. Talk: “Cambio climático y salud: una tarea urgente para los equipos de salud” [Climate change and health: an urgent task for health teams]

Mar 2024. Workshop “El reto de comunicar el cambio climático: desde la salud y la migración”. Organised by Internews. Talk: “Cambio climático, salud y migración en América Latina: perspectivas desde The Lancet Countdown Latin America” [“Climate change, health and migration in Latin America: perspectives from The Lancet Countdown Latin America]

Jan 2024. Nursing and Midwifery Exchange on Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare. Organised by UPenn, USA. Talk: “Climate change and health: challenges and opportunities for nursing”

Jan 2024. Seminar “II Jornada de Salud Ocupacional UC”. Organised by Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Católica de Chile. Talk: “Salud planetaria: un nuevo marco de referencia en la relación entre salud y medioambiente”

Jan 2024. Seminar “Impacto de las olas de calor en la salud en Chile: evidencia y recomendaciones”. Organised by Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Talk: “Evidencia de impactos de olas de calor en mortalidad en población Chilena” 

Jan 2024. Multinational Nursing and Midwifery Exchange on Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare. Penn Nursing Virtual Exchange, USA. Talk: “Lancet Countdown and Healthcare Sustainability”

2023

Dec 2023. Course “Promoting health and health system resilience in a changing climate”. Organised by Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, USA. Talk: “Co-benefits of adaptation and mitigation: Investments and ROI”

Nov 2023. Launch of Lancet Series “La ciencia y la investigación como impulsoras de acciones para el cambio climático y la salud en la región”. Organised by The Lancet Countdown Latin America. Talk: “Identifying gaps on health impacts, exposures, and vulnerabilities to climate change on human health and wellbeing in South America: a scoping review”

Oct 2023. Seminar for journalists “El impacto del cambio climático y los combustibles fósiles en la salud”. Organised by Salud sin Daño, Latin America. Talk: “Qué dice la ciencia acerca de los impactos del cambio climático en la salud?: una mirada regional desde The Lancet Countdown Latin America” https://lac.saludsindanio.org/noticias/seminario-virtual-para-periodistas-el-impacto-del-cambio-climatico-y-los-combustibles 

Oct 2023. Diploma “Liderazgo médico”. Organised by Facultad Medicina, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Talk: “Climate change and health: Challenges and opportunities”

Sep 2023. Student exchange “Enfermería y ambientes saludables”. Organised by ANHE Latinoamérica, Latin America. Talk: “Health climatic risks: The Lancet Countdown Latin America”

Sep 2023. UCL-UC Chile partnership & Double PhD programme kick-off. Organised by EPICentreUCL, UK. Talk: “Reflexions on working on climate change and health between Chile and the UK”

Sep 2023. Congress “Congreso de Ecosistemas Territoriales, Saludables y Resilientes”. Organised by Ministerio de Salud, Chile. Talk: “Análisis de mortalidad en olas de calor RM 2017 – 2019” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osl5atRsLmo 

Aug 2023. Programme “Comunidad de Liderazgo en Cambio Climático”. Organised by Enseña Chile, Chile. Talk: “Salud planetaria y cambio climático”

Aug 2023. Congress “I Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Cambio Climático y Salud”, Peru. Talk: “Análisis de adecuación de indicadores de impacto en salud asociados al cambio climático para el sistema de vigilancia en salud pública en Chile”

Aug 2023. Meeting “Mesa de calor extremo GORE RM”. Organised by Metropolitan Regional Government, Chile. Talk: “Análisis de mortalidad en olas de calor 2017 – 2019”

Jul 2023. Course “Climate change and health”. Organised by Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru. Talk: “Cambio climático y enfermedades no transmisibles”

Jul 2023. Programme “Interprofessional student challenge”. Organised by U21 Health Sciences group. Talk: “Addressing climate change: impacts on health”

May 2023. Meeting Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Talk: “Cambio Climático y Salud: Eventos Extremos”

May 2023. Seminar “VI Jornadas Internacionales de Enfermería: Enfermería y sustentabilidad: Diálogos y reflexión, una mirada hacia los cuidados del futuro”. Talk: “Cambio Climático y Salud: Rol de Profesionales de Enfermería”

Apr 2023. Workshop “Climate Change and Public Health: Youth-led Workshop on Policy Making and Advocacy”. Organised by Youth Climate and Health Network. Talk: “The role of Health and Public Health Professionals in Advocating for Climate Change Action”

Mar 2023. Annual meeting at the Institute for Global Health, UCL, UK. Talk: “Projections of hospitalisations and mortality rates in Chile under different climate scenarios by 2090”

Jan 2023. Seminar “Effects of extreme heat on population health”, Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile. Talk: “Lancet Countdown Policybrief for Chile 2022”

Jan 2023. Multinational Nursing and Midwifery Exchange on Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare. Penn Nursing Virtual Exchange, USA. Talk: “Lancet Countdown and Healthcare Sustainability”

2022

Nov 2022. III Seminar “Climate and Health”. Organised by the National Institute for Public Health, Chile. Talk: “Lancet Countdown Policybrief for Chile 2022”

Jul 2022. Seminar “Miradas sobre cambio climático y salud en América Latina”. Organised by The Global Climate & Health Alliance and Sociedad Iberoamericana Salud Ambiental (SIBSA). Talk: “Cambio Climático y Salud: Eventos Extremos” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nXSTKkApgI 

Jun 2022. Conference “6th International Conference of Professionals Statisticians Society of Nigeria”, Nigeria. Talk: “How Can Statistics Inform Climate and Health Public Policy?”

May 2022. Podcast VOLO Foundation. Un dilema entre el clima y la salud. https://volofoundation.org/podcastes/un-dilema-entre-el-clima-y-la-salud/ 

May 2022. Seminar “International Nursing Day”. Organised by Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. Talk: “Nursing and Planetary Health: How to improve population health beyond hospitals”

Apr 2022. Seminar “Código Rojo para la respuesta en salud en América Latina y el Caribe: mejorando la salud de las personas a través de la acción climática”. Organised by The Global Climate and Health Alliance, Clima, PAHO, SOCHIPE, SOCHISAP, The Lancet Regional Health Americas, Health without harm. Talk: “Why education on health and climate strengthen climate action and population health?” (I co-organised this seminar)

2021

2020

Jun 2020. Postgraduate Research Seminar Series at UCL Institute for Global Health, UK. Talk: “Indicators for Climate Change and Health”

2019

2017 and before

Nov 2017. V Nursing Day at Hospital del Salvador, Chile. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice as a tool to improve nursing care”

Oct 2017. Evidence-Based Nursing applied to Advanced Wound Management Seminar at Universidad San Sebastian, Chile. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice: An opportunity to improve wound care”

Oct 2017. XXXIV National Congress of FEMAFEE, A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico. Talk: “Health technologies and applications to nursing education and practice”

Oct 2017. Workshop at XXXIV National Congress of FEMAFEE, A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing”

Sep 2017. Scientific meeting at the Chilean Scientific Society of Child and Adolescent (SOCHENA), Chile. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice: An opportunity to improve child and adolescent health”

Jul 2017. Scientific meeting at the Chilean Society of Burns (Sociedad Chilena de Quemaduras), Chile. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice: An opportunity to improve care”

Jul 2017. Course “Introduction to Research”. Organised by the Chilean Society of Paediatric Surgery (Sociedad Chilena de Cirugia Pediatrica), Chile. Lecture: “Information searching strategies”

Jul 2017. Workshop at XIII International Seminar on Nursing. Organised by the Nursing School, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. Lecture: “How to use scientific evidence to improve nursing care” 

Jul 2017. XIII International Seminar on Nursing. Organised by the Nursing School, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. Talk: “Evidence-Based Practice in undergraduate degrees” 

Jul 2017. Course “Turn your idea in research”. Organised by the Nursing division of the Chilean Society of Intensive Medicine (Sociedad Chilena de Medicina Intensiva), Chile. Lecture: “Statistics in research”

Jun 2016. Workshop at XII International Seminar on Nursing. Organised by the Nursing School, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. Lecture: “Evidence-Based Practice” 

2025

Oct 2025. Workshop organisation and presentation at 2nd National Sustainability Conference

Palmeiro-Silva, Y., Jesse Bell, Jeremy Hess, Shivendra Srivastava. Understanding and closing the gap of needs assessments and climate risk assessments for health at the sub-national level in the USA.

Aug 2025. Oral presentation at 2025 ISES/ISEE Conference.

Palmeiro-Silva, Y., Hartinger, S., Checkley, W., Steenland, K. Understanding historical population exposure to extreme ambient temperature indices in Peru at the national level.

2024

Nov 2024. Global Forum on Bioethics in Research: Ehical issues arising in research into health and climate change. Confence organised by WHO. 

Behrens, K., Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (chairs). Session: “Interdisciplinary approaches, co-production & integrating indigenous knowledge”.

2023

Oct 2023. Poster presentation at Conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change – ENBEL 2023.

Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (c), Fulgueiras, M., Hartinger, S., Sergeeva, M., Miller, J., Tello, C. Barriers and Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Research and Action in Climate and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Oct 2023. Poster presentation at Conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change – ENBEL 2023.

Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (c), Fulgueiras, M., Hartinger, S., Sergeeva, M., Miller, J., Tello, C. Transdisciplinary Research and Action in Climate and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Network Analysis

Oct 2023. Oral presentation at Conference on Connecting Health and Climate Change – ENBEL 2023.

Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (c), Fulgueiras, M., Hartinger, S., Sergeeva, M., Miller, J., Tello, C. Building communities of practice for transdisciplinary research in climate and health in Latin America and the Caribbean: A conceptual model.

Aug 2023. Oral presentation in U21 Health Sciences Group Annual Meeting 2023.

Palmeiro-Silva, Y. (c) Indicators of climate change impacts for population health surveillance: A systematic review and suitability analysis for the Chilean context.

Jun 2023. Workshop at the Oxford Global Health & Bioethics International Conference. 

Rekers, R., de Araujo, M., Daly, T., Gerbaldo, MV., Jamrozik, E., Luna, F., Palmeiro Silva, Y., Yabar, C., Fior, P. Climate change and health in South America– defining research priorities.

Jan 2023. Poster presentation at 2023 Congreso Iberoamericano de Educación en Ciencias de la Salud.

Sutherland-Borja, S., Sarrat-González, G., Palmeiro-Silva, Y. Cambios de modalidad de enseñanza por COVID-19 y su efecto en el desempeño académico de estudiantes de nutrición.

2022

Sep 2022. Oral presentation at I Congreso Internacional de Doctorado en Enfermería. Universidad de los Andes.

Palmeiro-Silva Y. Data and statistical modelling to estimate health outcomes under future climatic scenarios: Methodological overview. [2nd place to the best presentation]

Jun 2022. Oral presentation at In Week, UCL Institute for Global Health.

Palmeiro-Silva Y. Data and statistical modelling to estimate health outcomes under future climatic scenarios: Methodological overview.

2021

Apr 2021. Oral presentation at UCL Education Conference 2021.

Islam S, Cozzi-Lepri A, Ahmed S, Akasaki M, Valencia-Hernandez C, Greiner R, Khanom M, Blundred D, Palmeiro-Silva Y. Online not distant – students’ feedback on a blended approach of teaching MSc medical statistics to UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Apr 2021. Poster presentation at 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival.

Palmeiro-Silva Y.(c), Cifuentes L., Cortés S., Olivares M., Silva I. Analysing climate change and population health in Chile: Policy recommendations from interdisciplinary discussions.

Apr 2021. Poster presentation at 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting and Festival.

Palmeiro-Silva Y.(c), Ferrada MT., Silva I., Ramírez J. Global environmental change and planetary health in the curriculum of undergraduate health professionals in Latin America: a review* (* published in The Lancet Planetary Health)

2020 and before

Jul 2020. Oral presentation at Postgraduate Conference, UCL Institute for Global Health.

Palmeiro-Silva Y. Climate change health indicators and temperature-related outcomes in Chile from 1990 to 2017. 

Oct 2015. Oral presentation at 29th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Italy.

Padilla C, Palmeiro-Silva Y. Effort-reward imbalance and burnout in an ICU nursing team: comparison between registered nurses and nurse aides.

Jan 2015. Oral presentation at VII International Congress in Health Sciences, Chile

Palmeiro-Silva Y. Cross-curricular Evidence Based Practice and its impact on professional education.