Healthy planet healthy people
Human health and the health of our environment are inextricably linked. Our collective resilience, well-being, nutrition, and ability to avert disease is fully connected to the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.
Watch presentations and panel discussions from the Fuller Symposium below. Hear leading health and environment experts discuss the relationship and complexity between human health and environmental systems and what we need to do to create better health opportunities for people and nature.
Agenda
| 1:00 pm |
Welcome and IntroductionCarter Roberts, President & CEO, WWF Watch h |
Opening AddressConflict and the Global Threat of PandemicsMichele Barry, Director, Stanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health Watch h |
| 1:45 pm |
Session 1Complexity and Connections between Health and the Environment |
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Planetary HealthProtecting nature to protect ourselvesSam Myers, Director, Planetary Health Alliance Watch h | ||
Setting Their Own PathEngaging local communities to improve health and agricultureRuth Oniang’o, Founder, Rural Outreach Africa Watch h |
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How Saving Forests Could Save Your LifeThe economics of deforestation and human healthCarlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Associate Vice President for Conservation and Health, EcoHealth Watch h |
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DiscussionWatch h |
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| 3:20 pm |
Break |
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| 3:50 PM |
Session 2Advancing Solutions for People and the Planet |
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Context and ScaleMediators of environmental-health relationshipsWatch h |
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Blue Marble ThinkingSeeing our world with new eyesKarabi Acharya, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Watch h |
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Environmental Health and Psychological WellbeingMaking the connectionSusan Clayton, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, The College of Wooster Watch h |
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DiscussionModerated by Natalie Phaholyothin, CEO, WWF-Thailand Watch h |
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| 5:25 pm |
Closing ConversationHow Can Conservation Meet This Challenge?Rebecca Shaw, Chief Scientist, WWF |
Closing Remarks |