What is planetary health?

Planetary health is a new concept based on the understanding that human health depends on flourishing natural systems. In this session we will learn what planetary health means and all the different dimensions that it covers.

Theme: Introduction to Planetary Health

Academic: Ione Avila-Palencia

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How can healthcare become more environmentally sustainable?

Healthcare’s climate footprint is estimated to be 4.4% of global net emissions. In this session we will explore sustainable healthcare policies and actions.

Theme: Sustainable Global Health Systems

Academic: Diarmuid O’Donovan

AI, Human Rights and Planetary Health

There have been increasing concerns on how AI impacts democracy and human rights, and what it means for the future of work. We will explore prevailing viewpoints about how AI could pose challenges to such avenues, and what we could possibly do about it.

Theme: Planetary Health and Human Rights

Academic: Deepak Padmanabhan

Global change and parasitic disease in animals

Climate warming and other factors are driving changes in disease occurrence in wildlife, livestock and people. How can we understand the complex processes involved and devise strategies to predict and cope with disease challenges in future? 

Theme: Sustainable Global Health Systems

Academic: Eric Morgan

Championing green and blue spaces for public and planetary health

Where and how we live has huge impact on our health and the health of our planet. This session explores how our parks, canals, rivers and trees can not only benefit human health, but also planetary health.

Theme: City Solutions

Academic: Ruth Hunter

Forced displacement and mental health: A planetary perspective

Across the world, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes is at an unprecedented high. We explore the mental health and wellbeing impacts of forced displacement and evidenced-based interventions for providing support.

Theme: Planetary Health and Human Rights

Academic: Ross White

Healthy and Sustainable Diets

We know that human health and environmental health can no longer be kept separate. This session delves deeper into the activities of WHO Europe experts, as they work to keep the health narrative alive as well as innovative ways to improve the global food systems and policies.

Theme: Sustainable Global Health Systems

Academic: Dr. Holly Rippin RNutr., WHO, Europe

Getting our cities ready for future planetary health challenges

Cities across the world have been increasingly affected by public health and environmental events, with wide societal impacts. It is forecasted that these events will increase in frequency and magnitude in the next years. This session explores what cities can do to mitigate and prepare for these events and their effects.

Theme: City Solutions

Academic: Leandro Garcia

A healthy Planet – a Human Rights perspective

It has been recently recognised by the United Nations that everyone has the right to a healthy environment. This talk explores planetary health as a human rights issue.

Theme: Planetary Health and Human Rights

Academic: Alyson Kilpatrick, NI Human Rights Commission, Chief Commissioner 

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Community activism for planetary health

Communities must be at the heart of any effective and just plan for addressing our climate and ecological emergency, simply because the planetary crisis is an issue of social injustice, so that ‘Ecology without class politics is just gardening’, that is, we cannot solve the planetary crisis without solving our inequality crisis.

Theme: City Solutions

Academic: Amanda Slevin and John Barry