First principles of health justice: a human right to be healthy – Sridhar Venkatapuram – TEDxLSHTM
In this talk at TEDxLSHTM, Medact Trustee Sridhar Venkatapuram argues that every human being has a human right to the capability to be healthy.
Kinari Webb at Healthy Planet – “Radical Listening: Saving Lives and Rainforest in Borneo”
MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.
Corinna Hawkes – “Global Food System Challenges”
Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the conference.
From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”
Annie Quick – “Equality and Sustainability: Where does the UK stand?”
Milja Fenger & Samuel Lee-Gammage – “Planet on a plate: Interconnected impacts of our global food system”
From Session A1 – “Global Food System Challenges”
David Powell – “Flowers, elephants & conflicts: Kenya’s progress on inequality & sustainability”
John Lanchbery – “The Paris Agreement: game changer or more hot air?”
Hugh Grant-Peterkin – “Groups under Pressure” & follow-up discussion
Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.
Sally Weintrobe – “Some effects of current culture on mental health”
Sally Weintrobe discusses the relationship between mental health, climate change, and a culture of uncare, arguing that climate change is a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting mental health.
Bryn Kewley – “Warm Homes, Healthy People”
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Adam Payne – “Feeding the 9 Billion”
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