Join us for a Public and Planetary Health Summit, designed to stimulate thinking and accelerate key debate on the health impacts of human-caused disruptions of the Earth's natural system.
Gain access to a series of thought-provoking talks featuring leading academics across Queen’s University Belfast - From areas as diverse as improving human and environmental health, sustainability in healthcare, tackling infection and disease, building healthier and sustainable cities, addressing health equity issues, and ethics and data challenges..
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A live panel wraps up an exhilarating conference with reflections on key conversations and debates across our range of seminars where we have been exploring insights, ideas and impact.