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About the conference
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Climate change has been called 'the biggest threat to global health of the 21st Century' - by a UCL/Lancet commission report, so it is fitting that this conference should be at UCL - and its impacts are greatest on those who are already marginalised, and who are least responsible for it. The same is true of the many interrelated environmental changes occuring on our planet, from biodiversity loss to ecosystem degradation and resource depletion.
At the same time, there is a wealth of evidence that tackling these challenges also presents the possibility of major health improvements of 'co-benefits', for example through clean energy, home insulation, improved access to family planning, active travel and smarter food policy. Moreover, more effective policies in areas such as these can reduce poverty and help tackle health inequalities - both globally, and here in the UK.We are aiming to provide a general introduction to the links between environment and health - including climate change but also related issues like disaster risk reduction, food security, gender, and energy policy. We want to show how these issues relate to one another and, particularly, to health inequalities and equity considerations, both in the UK and globally. And we want to show students and young people what they can do to make a difference, including becoming involved in our work and that of some of our partner organisations. The focus will be split approximately evenly between impacts and how we can reduce them through adaptation and disaster risk reduction, and the health co-benefits of sustainability and climate mitigation policies such as active travel and investment in home insulation. The weekend's structure is a roughly equal mix of plenary and interactive small workshop sessions. |
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Speakers
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Keynote speakers:
Professor Sir Andy Haines MBBS MD FRCGP FFPHM FRCP FMedSci (Professor of Public Health & Primary Care, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) Professor Virginia Murray FFPH, FRCP, FFOM, FRCPath (Head of Extreme Events and Health Protection, Public Health England) Plenary speakers: (Further speakers and workshop leaders to be added as new speakers are confirmed) Ms. Celina Gorre (Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases Prof. Tim Lang (Professor of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City University) Genon Jensen (Executive Director, Health and Environment Alliance) Prof. Hugh Montgomery (Director of the UCL Institute for Human Health and Performance) Rachel Stancliffe (Director, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare) Prof. Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA (Professor of Climatology, UCL) Prof. Graham Scambler (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UCL) Dr. Ilan Kelman (Fellow, UCL Institute of Disaster Risk Reduction) Dr. David McCoy (Chair of MedAct; Senior Clinical Lecturer, Queen Mary University, London) Simon Birkett (Founder and Director, Clean Air in London campaign) Dr. Robert Biel (Senior Lecturer, UCL Development Planning Unit) |
The conference organising team (more info here)
Just drop us a line at healthyplanetucl@gmail.com if you have any questions, or would like to volunteer during the conference.
The full programme and a link to book will be online soon!
Just drop us a line at healthyplanetucl@gmail.com if you have any questions, or would like to volunteer during the conference.
The full programme and a link to book will be online soon!
