Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch
Presented by Professor Tony Capon (Monash University)
By most measures, human health is better now than at any time in human history. However, these gains in human health have been unequally distributed, and have come at the high price of degradation of natural systems on a scale never before seen. In this seminar, Professor Capon will introduce the findings of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, and canvass their implications for the future protection and promotion of human health and wellbeing. To respond effectively to the health challenges of the Anthropocene, human societies need to grapple with the transitions that are currently shaping our lives–demographic, epidemiological, food, energy, urban, economic, cultural and ecological.
Speaker
Tony Capon directs the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and holds a chair in Planetary Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. An Australian trained public health physician, his research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health. Tony is a former director of the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), and has previously held professorial appointments at the University of Sydney and Australian National University. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and co-chairs the Future Earth Health Knowledge-Action Network.
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Contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu for registration details.
Event Details
- Date:
- 18 August 2021 at 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
- Venue:
- Caulfield campus, Building H, Level 2, Room H235
- Categories:
- Health Economics; CHE Seminar
Description
Presented by Professor Tony Capon (Monash University)
By most measures, human health is better now than at any time in human history. However, these gains in human health have been unequally distributed, and have come at the high price of degradation of natural systems on a scale never before seen. In this seminar, Professor Capon will introduce the findings of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, and canvass their implications for the future protection and promotion of human health and wellbeing. To respond effectively to the health challenges of the Anthropocene, human societies need to grapple with the transitions that are currently shaping our lives–demographic, epidemiological, food, energy, urban, economic, cultural and ecological.
Speaker
Tony Capon directs the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and holds a chair in Planetary Health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. An Australian trained public health physician, his research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health. Tony is a former director of the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), and has previously held professorial appointments at the University of Sydney and Australian National University. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and co-chairs the Future Earth Health Knowledge-Action Network.
Register now
Contact shannon.stanwell@monash.edu for registration details.