Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health on Transforming Life: Unify Personal, Public, and Planetary Health

From public to planetary health: a manifesto.

This manifesto for transforming public health calls for a social movement to support collective public health action at all levels of society—personal, community, national, regional, global, and planetary. Our aim is to respond to the threats we face: threats to human health and wellbeing, threats to the sustainability of our civilisation, and threats to the natural and human-made systems that ...

86th Annual Georgia Public Health Association Meeting & Conference Report.

The 86th annual meeting of the Georgia Public Health Association (GPHA) and joint conference with the Southern Health Association was held in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 13-14, 2015, with pre-conference (April 12th) and post-conference (April 14th) Executive Board meetings. As Georgia's leading forum for public health researchers, practitioners, and students, the annual meeting of the GPHA bring...

Planetary Health as a Central Context to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Addressing planetary health challenges in Africa

Drawing on the report of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health-Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch, this piece presents a discussion of the implications of the report's findings and conclusions for Africa. It explores the key planetary health challenges facing Africa and what Africa can do to address them. In addition to highlighting current and future...

Health Systems Trust Annual Conference

DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT Integrated Services how well do they work in practice? S. Fonn , Women's Health Project, Dept of Community Health, University of Witwatersrand Transformation in health services in Tshepo and Kopano Districts, Free State C. Baez , Initiative for Sub-District Support, Health Systems Trust Research into Action: The experience of district health teams in the Eastern Cape J. Irl...