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SUMMARY:Panel: What's Next for Planetary Health Research? - Alastair Brown
 \, Madeleine Thomson\, Sophia Lentzos
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CONTACT:Dr. Anthony Bridgen
DESCRIPTION:This panel will include the Editor-In-Chief of the Lancet Plan
 etary Health\, the NIHR's Head of Sustainability and Head of Climate Impac
 ts at the Wellcome Trust. They will discuss their experience of the planet
 ary health space and how they think it will evolve in the coming years.\n\
 nsign up "here":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/541543610517\n\nAbout th
 e speakers\n\nAlastair Brown joined The Lancet Planetary Health as Edit
 or-in-Chief in May 2019 after working at Nature Climate Change since its l
 aunch in 2010\, where he oversaw the climate change impacts\, vulnerabilit
 y\, and adaptation section of the journal. Before that he worked in a poli
 cy-facing role at the UK Climate Impacts Programme engaging with willing b
 ranches of government and the private sector on ways to adapt to unavoidab
 le climate changes. He studied Environmental Science followed by a Masters
  in Global Environmental Change\, both at the University of Plymouth (UK).
  His doctoral and postdoctoral research at the University of Southampton (
 UK) was in the field of palaeoclimatology. He has broad interests in the i
 ntersections of people and planet and the pressing challenges these pose.\
 n\nDr. Sophia Lentzos joined the NIHR as its first ever Head of Sustain
 ability in December 2022. Dr Lentzos has a lifelong passion for environmen
 tal causes and sustainability\, starting her career in environmental conse
 rvation. She then trained as a medical doctor at Nottingham University and
  started Anaesthesia training in Wessex. Here she continued her passion fo
 r sustainability\, working as part of the Green Guardian network for the T
 rust. She also founded the Wessex Green Anaesthesia Network (WES-GAN). In 
 2021-2022 she became one the first cohort of Chief Sustainability Officer
 ’s Clinical Fellows in Greener NHS. She continued work on sustainable me
 dicines and helped form a national working group for sustainable anaesthes
 ia.\n\nDr. Madeleine Thomson is Head of Impacts and Adaptation at the W
 ellcome Trust. Madeleine has over 25 years of research experience focused 
 on large-scale\, climate-sensitive\, health interventions in Low- and Midd
 le-income Countries. Prior to joining Wellcome\, Madeleine worked as Senio
 r Research Scientist at The International Research Institute for Climate a
 nd Society\, Columbia University\, where she directed the World Health Org
 anization Collaborating Centre on ‘Malaria Early Warning Systems and oth
 er Climate Sensitive Diseases’. She was also a Senior Research Scholar a
 t Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research has involved 
 the development of new data\, methodologies and tools for improving climat
 e-sensitive health interventions with a focus on infectious disease\, publ
 ic health outcomes of hydrometeorological disasters and nutrition.\n\n
LOCATION: Webinar (via Zoom online)
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