Protecting Our Planet, Protecting Our Children: An Indigenous Vision for Intergenerational Health Symposium | November 28th, 2023 | Public Facing Webcasts and Symposiums
This series was focused on celebrating Native American Heritage Month and was the inaugural event of the Institute for Planetary Health. Among several topics, presentations explored Indigenous Determinants of Health and the alignment of Planetary Health with Indigenous Knowledges and a more holistic framework for health.
For background information, please see this Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) Policy Note that aims to elevate the views expressed by Indigenous leaders in the 2023 UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) and call attention to how Planetary Health work can align with UNPFII.
Sustainability Symposium | April 3rd, 2024 | Scott-Bates Commons
The Sustainability Symposium on Research & Practice for over 80 speakers, 19 concurrent panel sessions, and 28 research posters. This daylong event highlights the intersection of sustainability research and practice led by Johns Hopkins University faculty, staff, and students while fostering a dynamic cross-disciplinary dialogue on key topics, including food systems, healthcare, energy, environmental justice, and more.
https://sustainability.jhu.edu/who-we-are/slc/symposium24/
‘Public Health on Call’ Podcast Episode | April 22nd, 2024
A special edition of the award-winning podcast Public Health on Call will premiere on Earth Day, featuring Dr. Samuel Myers, Faculty Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and the Planetary Health Alliance, discussing “What is Planetary Health? What can we do about it?”
Environmental Health and Engineering Faculty Session | April 24th, 2024 | East Baltimore Campus
Official introductory meeting for EHE Faculty to the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health. In this session, EHE faculty will have the opportunity to discuss the goals of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health and learn how they can work together with the Institute to help develop more healthy and sustainable systems for meeting human needs.
Hopkins Dining: Weigh Your Waste | April 8th-11th, 2024 | Multiple Locations
Join Hopkins Dining in the Weigh Your Waste campaign! 🌱 Let’s reduce food waste together and make a positive impact on our environment.
The goal of the Weigh Your Waste Campaign is to raise awareness about food waste. During lunch, students can choose to sort their waste into five bins: edible food waste, non-edible food waste (bones, shells, etc.), compostable non-edibles (like napkins, to-go cups, and lids), liquid waste, and trash.
AI and the Health of Our Planet | April 30th, 2024 | Shriver Hall
The Data Science and AI Institute and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences recently launched a series of symposia about the confluence of AI with the natural and social sciences and the humanities to create a community of KSAS scholars whose interests include using AI tools in their research and/or are studying AI’s impact on society.
Each symposium will focus on a theme and speakers have been asked to prepare their talks for a general, well-informed audience. Most speakers will be KSAS scholars in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities, data science and AI practitioners, and researchers from other university divisions.
The next symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 30 and is co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health (JHIPH).
Speakers include:
- Sam Myers, Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health
- Anand Gnanadesikan, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
- Jennifer Sleeman, Applied Physics Laboratory
- Bentley Allan, Department of Political Science
Engineering Convening | May 2nd, 2024 | Scott-Bates Commons
A convening was held to bring together the engineering/data science/APL community with the new Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health (JHIPH) to discuss opportunities to tailor technological innovation to address the Earth crisis.
The field of Planetary Health has emerged in response to the fact that Earth’s natural systems—climate, biodiversity, land use and cover, marine systems—are beginning to crumble under the weight of humanity’s ecological footprint. Increasingly, this Earth crisis is driving a global humanitarian crisis, impacting every dimension of human health and threatening the habitability of many places people live. To safeguard a livable future for humanity and the rest of life on Earth, will require transformational change in how we live across most sectors of human activity including energy and food production, urban design, and manufacturing. The Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health has been created to build community across Johns Hopkins University to address these human dimensions of the Earth crisis.
This convening brought together members of the JHU engineering/APL community with interests in innovations that help us reduce humanity’s ecological footprint and chart a more sustainable course toward people and planetary systems functioning in harmony. These innovations may be focused on energy systems, food systems, manufacturing and circular economy, waste and pollution reduction, water resources, or cities and built environment—and other areas.
Open Sustainability Policy Summit | May 2nd-3rd, 2024 | Bloomberg Center
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health is a co-sponsor of The Open Sustainability Policy Summit being led by Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in partnership with LF Energy on May 2-3, 2024. This event will gather lawmakers, policymakers, electrical utility companies, automakers, technology vendors, researchers, and end users of energy to discuss the challenges and opportunities for an open-source model of building both technology and standards to drive the energy transition, with particular focus on how policy and regulation can support this collaborative approach and ensure communities are diverse and inclusive.
Pathways for Planetary Health Law, Governance, and Policy | May 6th, 2024 | Bloomberg Center
Planetary Health reframes how we examine the relationship between health and Earth’s natural systems. Human health is deeply dependent on natural life support systems, and humanity’s disruption of natural systems – from climate change, biodiversity loss, land-use conversion to chemical pollution, ozone layer depletion, and air pollution – has become a major contributor to the global burden of disease.
What role could laws, policies, and governance play in advancing Planetary Health at the local, national, regional, and international levels? What case studies and examples of Planetary Health Law exist? Johns Hopkins University Faculty, Postdoctoral Fellows, and PhD students are invited to come together to explore mutual interests and potentially identify some concrete, collaborative activities at the interface of Planetary Health, law, governance, and policy.