LARIA Event List
HSUG / RSS OSS webinar on climate and health
Wednesday 20th May 2026
12:00 to 13:30
The Health Statistics Users Group (HSUG) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Official Statistics Section are organising a webinar to discuss the statistical approaches used for monitoring the impact of climate on health.
For further information and to register for this online event, please go to:
Please note that the webinar is free to RSS Fellows and e-student members. There are also a limited number of free places available to the HSUG community. If you would like to apply to HSUG for one of these free places, please email info@hsug.org.uk. There Is a registration fee of £10 for other participants.
Programme
Claire Hunt and Ellie Watkins at ONS will present on the SOSCHI (Standards for Official Statistics on Climate and Health Interactions) methods for temperature-related mortality work. They will also introduce the ONS climate-mortality publication.
Bruce Whyte from PHS (Public Health Scotland) will present PHS work to estimate the health impacts of climate change in Scotland. This presentation will focus mainly on heat-related mortality but will also mention other related climate health impact work.
A speaker from Manchester City Council will present work to investigate the implications of high heat events on health at a local level.
Further Information
The presentations, a meeting report and a recording of the webinar will be posted on the Health and Care group on StatsUserNetwork ( https://www.statsusernetwork.ons.gov.uk/ ), and also on the HSUG Community on AnalystX within the Future NHS platform (https://future.nhs.uk/DataAnalytics/view?objectId=59118800#59118800 ) .
People who are not able to attend on the day will be able to view, and comment on, this material.
If you have difficulty accessing either website please contact webmaster@hsug,org.uk
