Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities

Journal Article · 04 November 2019 · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16214302 · OSTI ID:1628349

Prescott, Susan L. ^[1]; Hancock, Trevor ^[2]; Bland, Jeffrey ^[3]; van den Bosch, Matilda ^[4]; Jansson, Janet K. ^[5]; Johnson, Christine C. ^[6]; Kondo, Michelle C. ^[7]; Katz, David ^[8]; Kort, Remco ^[9]; Kozyrskyj, Anita ^[10]; Logan, Alan C. ^[11]; Lowry, Christopher A. ^[12]; Nanan, Ralph ^[13]; Poland, Blake ^[14]; Robinson, Jake ^[15]; Schroeck, Nicholas ^[16]; Sinkkonen, Aki ^[17]; Springmann, Marco ^[18]; Wright, Robert O. ^[19]; Wegienka, Ganesa ^[20]

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1. Univ. of Western Australia, Perth, WA (Australia). Perth Childrens Hospital. Telethon Kids Inst. The ORIGINS Project; inVIVO Planetary Health of the Worldwide Univerieities Network (WUN), West New York, NJ (United States); DOE/OSTI
2. Univ. of Victoria, BC (Canada). School of Public Health and Social policy
3. Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Inst., Tacoma, WA (United States)
4. Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC (Canada). Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences
5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Biological Sciences Division
6. Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI (United States). Henry Ford health System and Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES)
7. USDA Forest Service, Philadelphia, PA (United States). Northern Research Station
8. Yale Univ., Derby, CT (United States). Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center
9. Vrije Univ., Amsterdam (Netherlands). Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology
10. Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada). Dept. of Pediatrics
11. inVIVO Planetary Health of the Worldwide Univerieities Network (WUN), West New York, NJ (United States)
12. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Dept. of Integrative Physiology
13. Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia). Charles Perkins Centre Nepean
14. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada). Dalla Lana School of Public Health
15. Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom). Dept. of Landscape
16. Univ. of Detroit Mercy, MI (United States). School of Law Detroit
17. Univ. of Helsinki (Finland). Ecosystems and Environment Research Program
18. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom). Nuffield Dept. of Population Health
19. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY (United States)
20. Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI (United States). Henry Ford Health System and Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES)

inVIVO Planetary Health (inVIVO) is a progressive scientific movement providing evidence, advocacy, and inspiration to align the interests and vitality of people, place, and planet. Our goal is to transform personal and planetary health through awareness, attitudes, and actions, and a deeper understanding of how all systems are interconnected and interdependent. Here, we present the abstracts and proceedings of our 8th annual conference, held in Detroit, Michigan in May 2019, themed “From Challenges, to Opportunities”. Our far-ranging discussions addressed the complex interdependent ecological challenges of advancing global urbanization, including the biopsychosocial interactions in our living environment on physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing, together with the wider community and societal factors that govern these. We had a strong solutions focus, with diverse strategies spanning from urban-greening and renewal, nature-relatedness, nutritional ecology, planetary diets, and microbiome rewilding, through to initiatives for promoting resilience, positive emotional assets, traditional cultural narratives, creativity, art projects for personal and community health, and exploring ways of positively shifting mindsets and value systems. Our cross-sectoral agenda underscored the importance and global impact of local initiatives everywhere by contributing to new normative values as part of a global interconnected grass-roots movement for planetary health.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1628349
• Journal Information: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal Name: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 16; ISSN 1660-4601
• Publisher: MDPICopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English