6th Space Medicine Forum to be held on September 2nd in México / @SCT_mx >>>

#SICT.- The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), through the Mexican Space Agency (AEM), announced that the 6th Space Medicine Forum «Towards New Horizons of Medicine: Space, Climate Change and Health» will be held.

This was announced by the Director General of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, who explained that, together with the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico (ANMM), they will carry out this innovative meeting with the mission of disseminating to the public the work and potential of space medicine.

«Mexico is positioned as a leader in space medicine, and the Forum will illustrate how science and technology originally developed for space can have potential applications for health in the context of the global challenge of climate change,» said Landeros.

The technology used in space medicine has important potential applications on the ground, for example, to take advantage of the telecommunications infrastructure to bring health services to the population, especially those most in need, in remote communities (telemedicine), he explained.

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