NOVA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2022
People . Places. Planet
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SESSION 1: Integrated whole-systems approaches at all scales: for health, healing, and flourishing
Thursday December 1, 10am-12pm Eastern, US
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WELCOME
Brian Berman (President, Nova Institute for Health); Susan Prescott (Director, Nova Network) |
Brian Berman is President of the Nova Institute for Health; Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine; founding Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Co-Director, Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field. "In challenging times there are also great opportunities to reach beyond boundaries and fundamentally shift how we think about well-being at all scales.”
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From the Acorn to the Grove: Indigenous Enaction of Planetary Flourishing
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Yuria Celidwen (Nahua/Maya) is an Indigenous scholar and consultant on the rights of Indigenous Peoples and the rights of Nature. She studies the experience of transcendence and its prosocial behaviors (ethics, compassion, kindness, awe, love, and sacredness) across Indigenous contemplative traditions. www.yuriacelidwen.com “Let the rivers flow and sprouts will follow”
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A mindful moment
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Rick Scott is chief operating officer of the Nova Institute for Health. He has been a student and teacher of contemplative practices and wisdom traditions since the early 1990’s.
“I have a passion for seeing the health and vitality in people, and encouraging them to awaken to a greater sense of meaning, purpose, and joy in their lives.” |
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Integrated whole-systems approaches to wellbeing at all scales
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Susan Prescott is Director of the Nova Network. She is a Professor of Paediatrics at University of Western Australia, Director of the ORIGINS project, Editor-in-Chief of Challenges, and a scholar at the Nova Institute for Health in Baltimore. She is an artist and an author. “My passion is connecting people and ideas to create new opportunities”
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KEYNOTE: Tapestry Thinking: An ecologist’s perspective on finding a path through the Anthropocene
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Nalini Nadkarni is a Professor of Biology at the University of Utah,, doing research on rainforest canopy biota. She leads programs on engagement of public groups who do not or cannot gain access to science and nature in traditional learning venues. “My passion is to connect all people to the benefits of nature and inspire them to protect it.”
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Building the Planetary Health Movement: A framework for integrated solutions for human and environmental health
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Samuel Myers, is the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, and a Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He studies the human health impacts of accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, a field recently dubbed Planetary Health.
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Beyond Social Determinants: power, politics, and other forces that shape health of people, places and planet.
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Sandro Galea is Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at the Boston University School of Public Health. He has been named an epidemiology innovator by Time, a top voice in healthcare by LinkedIn, and is one of the most cited social scientists in the world.“I aspire to change the conversation on health”.
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Weaving Tapestries between Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
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Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher, who has traversed clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. "I have a passion for weaving art, science and spirituality towards healing of the Collective and restoration of the Whole".
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Truth, Trust and Trees: Pushing boundaries to understand the intelligence of nature
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Monica Gagliano is Research Assoc. Professor of Evolutionary Ecology, Director of the Biological Intelligence [BI] Lab at Southern Cross University. She focuses on ecological processes by which organisms gather information from their environment to thrive. “I pioneered the field of plant bioacoustics and extended concepts of plant cognition, to re-ignite discourse on plant subjectivity, sentience and ethical standing”
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The seeds of change: what kind of seeds are we planting for the next generations
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Nadine Clopton is creating a Regenerative Health program at the Rodale Institute, and Vice President of the the Global NGO Executive Committee, the youngest person to ever serve in this capacity. She is an innovative change-maker determined to amplify the voices of youth and communities; ecosystems that are often excluded from decision-making bodies. She founded Conscious Consulting, LLC and volunteers with Caring & Living As Neighbours as an NGO Youth Representative to the United Nations.
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With intergenerational wisdom exchange our future is more hopeful: A message from Children in Africa, Alliance High School, KiKuyu, Kenya
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SESSION 2: Connecting Communities: co-creating, integrating, and inspiring change through relationship
Thursday December 1, 2pm-4pm Eastern, USA
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INTRODUCTION
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CHAIR: Susan Prescott, Director or Nova Network, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Western Australia
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Water Rising: Youth Art
(**also featuring the music from new album of Nova Network member, Zoe Roar) |
Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Program: Bow Seat is a Boston-based non-profit that has engaged nearly 30,000 students worldwide to use art to advocate for our environment: More here!
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Another mindful moment
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Rick Scott (see details in session 1)
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The Relational Turn: Implications for Planetary Health
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Blake Poland is a professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Collaborative Specialization in Community Development. His work focusses on community resilience and the contributions of citizens and social movements to sustainability transition. “I love learning & sharing about alternative ways of seeing and living, inner & outer change work”
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The Inner Development Goals Initiative: a community catalysing social and environmental responsibility "from the inside-out"
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Daniel Hires is Director of Partnerships at the Inner Development Goals. Co-creator of the global youth movement for social innovation MakeSense, Daniel is a relationship builder and connector – and works between ecosystem building and community weaving. “It’s not enough to change WHAT we do, we need to address HOW we do it.”
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Reframing anxiety for emotionally restorative relationships and a more sane, sustainable, and awe-informed world
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Kirk J. Schneider is Adjunct Faculty, Saybrook University & Teachers College, Columbia University; President of the Existential-Humanistic Institute. “This psychology tradition has inspired my work on existential-integrative psychotherapy, cultivation of awe toward life, and the fostering of life-enhancing anxiety—that enables us to live with and make the best of the depth and mystery of existence.”
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Restoring trust in an era of misinformation:Communications Solutions for Scientists and Health Professionals (with commentary from journalists
Richard Stone, Malia Jones, Jayne O'Donnell, Jackie Jones) |
Nova Institute Media Advisory Council, Scholars, and Fellows
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The arts can amplify collective ability to foster wellbeing and build more equitable communities
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Susan Magsamen is founder and executive director, International Arts+Mind Lab (IAM Lab), a pioneering initiative from the Pedersen Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and co-director of NeuroArts Blueprint. “My new book ‘Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us’ is a journey offering proof that physical and mental health can be transformed through art and aesthetic experiences, while also building stronger communities.”
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The Planetary Health Alliance: trans-disciplinary communities in action to build opportunities for global change
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Marie Studer is the Senior Program Manager at the Planetary Health Alliance. Her career has focused on public accessibility and understanding of science through government and public policy positions. “I am interested in creating awareness of and action focused on a regenerative society where all people can thrive.” See other members of the PHA TEAM
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Giiwe: A Model for Inter-organizational Coordination, Learning, and Healing (M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre)
co-presenters: Lorne Pawis, Renee K. Abram, Carlos Sanchez |
Diane Giroux is a Project Developer. In 2017, she received the Sesquicentennial Medal from the Senate of Canada. Diane recently developed the 'Giiwe Project’ at M’Wikwedong Indigenous Friendship Centre. “Through Giiwe, I nurture meaningful relationships between Indigenous and non- Indigenous organizations”
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Kinship Earth: Connecting global networks of change makers: for purposeful social, economic, and environmental sustainability
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Wendy Ellyatt is a futurist and changemaker who is working with organisations worldwide to accelerate positive change. She is the founder of the Flourish Project, a Global Council member of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and a board director of Kinship Earth. “Through honouring our essential unity, we can become the change that we want to see.”
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Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment (ACOPPHE)
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Nightingale Wakigera is a nurse originating from Kenya and currently pursuing a Master‘s degree in One Health. As a leader of the Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment (ACOPPHE ) and a co-leader of the Child Health is Planetary Health (CHIP), her work focuses on how these networks contribute to the vision of a healthy and sustainable Africa for all.
Nathaniel Uchtmann is a Physician and Lawyer who currently works as an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California. He completed a 2-year Global Health Fellowship through UCSF. His advocacy work centers around ethically modelling ecology through highlighting our interdependency with healthy communities and a healthy planet.
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We also thank Mona El-Sherbini, Vanessa Goes, Bwalya Lungo (ACOPPHE executive team), and elder Menzi Maseko for a ceremonial offering
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Liberators: Revolution of Human Connection
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Peter Sharp is Founder of The Liberators, global movement passionate about creating tangible experiences of empathy and kindness between people from all walks of life via global flashmobs and events. “Humanity is yearning for human connection to flourish and we all have a valuable role to play”
Valerie Verhasselt is Director of the LRF Centre for Immunology and Breastfeeding at the University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute. Her research aims to understand the magic of breast milk and find ways to promote healthy development for all. “My deep motivation is to contribute to making people happier by empowering them with more knowledge, confidence, and creativity”.
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The Nova Network and Hub--connecting communities, ideas, inspirations and actions for flourishing
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Alan Logan, is an award-winning author and historian of health sciences with more than two dozen publications in diverse scientific and medical journals. His work explores the ways in which natural environments provide value to and impact human health and quality of life. He is a Fellow at the the Nova Institute.
Dawn Stoltzfus is the Senior Director of Strategic Communications at the Nova Institute for Health and has worked in the private, nonprofit, and government sectors to lead numerous public awareness and policy campaigns. “I am passionate about the interconnections between health, equity, and environmental justice and helping people make their voices heard.”
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Children are the future: Involve us from an early age
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A message from the children of Pleasant Hope Academy in Kenya
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SESSION 3: Nature, Places and Spaces: creating safe, sustainable and nourishing environments for flourishing
Friday December 2, 10am-12pm Eastern, USA
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Opening Video: An Invisible Journey--Ecotourism with a hand lens
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Ricardo Rozzi is a Chilean ecologist and philosopher whose research combines ecology and philosophy. He is Professor at Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of North Texas & at University of Magallanes; V/P, Center for Environmental Philosophy, USA; Director, Cape Horn International Center, Chile. He coined the terms biocultural conservation, biocultural homogenization, and biocultural ethics.
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INTRODUCTIONS
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CHAIR: Susan Prescott, Director or Nova Network, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Western Australia
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Another mindful moment
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Rick Scott (see details in session 1)
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KEYNOTE: Finding Beauty in a Broken World: Through wildness as the highest form of imagination
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Terry Tempest Williams is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School. She is known for her impassioned prose and lyrical writing focusing on how environmental issues are social issues and ultimately, issues of justice. She is the author of over 20 books in creative nonfiction including the environmental literature classic, "Refuge - An Unnatural History of Family and Place; "Finding Beauty In A Broken World"; "When Women Were Birds"; "The Hour of Land - A Personal Topography of America's National Parks"; and most recently, "Erosion - Essays of Undoing." Ms. Tempest Williams is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenship Fellowship and a LannanLiterary Award in creative nonfiction. Her work has been translated and anthologized worldwide. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters and divides her time between Castle Valley, Utah and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Is nature linked to emotional intelligence? A conceptual framework and preliminary evidence from the United States
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Matthew Browning is an Associate Professor in the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, where he directs the Virtual Reality and Nature Lab. “I envision a world where everyone has access to safe, restorative natural environments and where visits them daily for the health and happiness of our planet and society.
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Demonstrating the benefits of the "3-30-300 green space rule" for mental health
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Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen is a Professor and director of Urban Planning, Environment & Health and Air pollution & Urban Environment programs at ISGlobal Barcelona; President, International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (2020-21); ISEE John Goldsmith Award recipient for Outstanding Contributions to Environmental Epidemiology (2018); and ranked number 1 scientist in Urban health (2021)
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Urban Flourishing: places and spaces for more inclusive new ways of being for all
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Giselle Sebag is the Executive Director of the International Society for Urban Health. She is a globally recognized urban health leader with 15 years of experience advising governments, multilaterals, NGOs and private sector companies to develop sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities that promote and enhance resident health. “My passion is improving urban health and wellbeing by design.”
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Archipelagos Collective: An Indigenous-Led Resurgence for Planetary Health
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Deondre Smiles (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. His research interests include critical Indigenous geographies, human-environment interactions, and Indigenous cultural resource management /preservation. He is the Principal Investigator of the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory, one of Western Canada’s first explicitly Indigenous geography focused research groups/labs.
Heather Castleden is the Impact Chair in Transformative Governance for Planetary Health at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC Canada. She held a Canada Research Chair (‘16-’21)and is a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. “I am committed to research and practice that support Indigenous rights, resurgence, and self-determination.”
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Exploring Connections Between Place and Spiritual Experience
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Katherine Irvine is a Senior Researcher in Environment, Wellbeing and Behaviour at the James Hutton Institute in Scotland. Working across disciplines and sectors, she works to build bridges between issues of human health/wellbeing, environmental quality and sustainable behaviour. “I am passionate about understanding and finding ways to heal the split in the reciprocal relationship between people and nature.”
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Building an eco-community focused on holistic health, social, environmental and economic regeneration
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Anthony Abbagnano is the founder of Alchemy of Breath, one of the world’s most respected breathwork schools. He is also the founder of ASHA in Tuscany, Italy, a centre dedicated to community health and emerging consciousness. “My vision is to co-create a sustainable path for living in harmony with nature and each other.”
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Neighborhood forest cover during infancy associates with decreased risk of non-communicable diseases in childhood
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Jenni Lehtimäki is senior researcher at Finnish Environment Institute. She actively searches and tests new ways to link (microscopic and macroscopic) biodiversity and human health. “When I became mother, I started to understand all the complexities influencing on healthy development, which made me think that green environment could solve a lot.”
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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure: from research to pedagogy and practice
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Jake Robinson is a microbial ecologist and researcher at Flinders University. He is a member of the UNFCCC resilience frontiers team, working to restore ecosystems and optimise human health. His debut book Invisible Friends is about how microbes shape our lives and the world around us. ”I work across disciplines with the aim of ‘joining the dots’ to promote healthy ecosystems.”
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Letting children get their hands dirty: microbial enriched soils elicits changes in immune regulation
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Marja Roslund (PhD) is an environmental scientist at Natural Resources Institute Finland with a focus on connections among biodiversity, urbanization, microbiome, and the environment and human well-being. “My passion is to improve the planetary health
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Let us Collaboratively Care for the Earth: Message from Children and Youth in Africa
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Precious Blood Girls High School, Riruta, Kenya
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SESSION 4: Ecological relationships for whole person health: Awareness, attitudes and actions for wellness
Friday December 2, 2pm-4pm Eastern, USA
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Inspirations for Flourishing: Art video
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Entries from the Nova Art Awards
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Setting the scene: Ecological relationships for whole person health
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Brian Berman is President of the Nova Institute for Health; Professor Emeritus of Family & Community Medicine; founding Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Co-Director, Cochrane Complementary Medicine Field. "In challenging times there are also great opportunities to reach beyond boundaries and fundamentally shift how we think about well-being at all scales.”
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Another mindful moment
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Rick Scott (see details in session 1)
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Integrating concepts of Whole Person and Whole Planet Health
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Helene M. Langevin, M.D. is the Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). She was previously Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School. "NCCIH funds and conducts research to help answer important scientific and public health questions within the context of whole person health."
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Efforts to promote equitable flourishing - must start from the first moments of life
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Carley Riley is Associate Professor, Attending Physician, and Co-Faculty Lead of Population and Community Health at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She is also a Fellow with the Nova Institute and Co-Founder and Director of The Collective WELL, whose mission it is “To cultivate thriving populations and communities through research, policy, and activism.”
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Ayurveda and Epigenetics: Preconception, Biological Plasticity, and the Re-conception of Health Narratives
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Natasha Rooney is a PhD Candidate at the Alfred Deakin Institute of Globalisation and Citizenship, Deakin University, Melbourne (Australia). “My research is on the circulation of epigenetic and postgenomic models of life in India.”
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Integrating Mind, Body and Spirit for Personal and Planetary Health
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Peter Wayne is a researcher, practitioner, and instructor of mind-body therapies. He is Director for the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and leads its Mind-Body-Movement Lab. “My passion is facilitating healing connections: between mind, body & spirit; science and society; and individuals with one another and nature.”
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From Mindful Behavior to a Shift in Identity: An Individual and Collective Exploration
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Aterah Nusrat is Director of Programming in Integrative Medicine & Planetary Health at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She has 20+yrs experience as a practitioner of direct path awakening in individual and group settings. “I am passionate about the spiritual roots of planetary health.”
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Mud Map: Connecting Dirt, ‘Old friends’ and Stress Resilience
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Christopher A. Lowry is an Associate Professor of Integrative Physiology at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-founder and Co-Director of the Military and Veteran Microbiome: Consortium for Research and Education. “My passion is advancing understanding of the microbiome-gut-brain axis and applying that knowledge to prevention and treatment of stress-related psychiatric disorders."
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Food Solutions as Climate solutions: a critical link between planetary health and human futures
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Africa Mentoring Research Network (ACOPPHE): Mona El Sherbini, Vanessa Goes, Tajudeen Yusuf Amuda, Habeebullah Oladipo,
Samuel Abimbola, Chanelle Mulopo, Ntirenganya Elie, Aishatu Muhammed, Menzi Maseko, Joe Payne, Kajelcha Fikadu1, Nightingale Wakigera, Nathaniel Uchtmann |
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Healthful eating with personal and planetary flourishing in mind: challenges and opportunities
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Chris D’Adamo is Director of Research, University of Maryland Center for Integrative Medicine, and a Fellow at the Nova Institute. He is an epidemiologist with interests in the synergistic effects of healthy lifestyle practices and genetics on human health, as well as outcomes evaluations of multi-modality, whole-practice integrative health interventions and programs.
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Emotional insecurities, Futuring and Flourishing in planetary health
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Zoë Rozar is a Multidisciplinary Creative Product and Service developer at the Institute Bon Pasteur, with a passion for Education in Cultural Formation, Transformation and Transition towards Planetary Health. She is an Artist and Composer. “This life, this death, no repeat, no rewind, no pause. Life is no burden but a privilege. What are we waiting for?”
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ADDITIONAL ABSTRACT PRESENTATIONS:
Our 'live' program is much shorter this year, so we have not been able to include all our abstract submissions in the virtual sessions. Please enjoy the following additional abstracts, presented in video form (4-5 minutes each). There are opportunities to discuss these abstracts, and much more, on our new Nova Integration Hub – to be launched in late November.
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Nature Play & Grow: Promoting engagement in nature in young children and families (Lisa Gibson, Longley G., Ansingh D.,
Prabawa-Sear K., Prescott S Silva D) |
Lisa Gibson is a Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute in Perth Australia and the stakeholder management lead for the ORIGINS project. "I am an ardent supporter of involving consumers and community in research as it needs to improved outcomes and impactful results"
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Associations with temperature at conception and metabolic outcomes in adulthood: health implications of climate change. Fabienne Pradella (T. Münz, L.A. Gerking, S. Gabrysch, R. van Ewijk)
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Fabienne Pradella is an economist at the Chair of Statistics and Econometrics at the University of Mainz. Her research focuses on prenatal impacts on health through fetalprogramming, in combination with postnatal exposures. “I am fascinated by how interconnected life on the planet is, and convinced that strong causal evidence is crucial for decision-making.”
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Tackling the ‘Wicked Problems’ of the Anthropocene and Changing the Narratives in the ‘File of Shame’: A System-Based Approach as Panacea? Yusuf Amuda Tajudeen,
Habeebullah Jayeola Oladipo, Iyiola Olatunji Oladunjoye, Aminat Olaitan Adebayo, Mona Said El-Sherbini) |
Yusuf Tajudeen is a Microbiologist, a graduate student at the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, and an Executive Director and Coordinator of Research at Africa Community of Planetary Health and Environment Mentorship Research Network. Yusuf is a zoonotic infectious disease researcher. “I am passionate about healthy people and healthy planet”
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Tracing the Internet’s supply chains—to reduce technology’s impacts on nature
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Katie Singer writes about technology's impacts on nature. She has nearly finished her next book, Mapping the Technosphere—to reduce technology’s impacts on nature. Her other books include An Electronic Silent Spring and The Garden of Fertility www.OurWeb.tech and www.ElectronicSilentSpring.com. She lives in New Mexico, USA.
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Tackling Drivers Of Childhood Obesity In Africa By Adopting A Planetary Health Approach
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Abdul-kareem Aisha is a MSc student, Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development, Oxford Brookes University UK. She is a member at the Mentoring Research Network (MRN), Africa Community of Planetary Partners for Health and Environment ACOPPHE. “I am passionate about contributing my quota towards achieving a planetary health”
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The Planetary Health for All Initiative: Multi-Faith Engagement, Capacity Building and Education for Planetary Health
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Ralf Klemens Stappen is Executive Secretary of the Francis of Assisi Academy for Planetary Health and a member (Acad.) of the International Academy of Science. He led the first sustainability project in Europe which was awarded as a national project by the Federal President 1995. Professionally, he implemented over 500 sustainability projects in the public sector. "I support the church and religions to protect our Earth on different levels."
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Flourishing ORIGINS Child project – stakeholder engagement
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Jacqueline Davis is the Senior Program Manager for the ORIGINS Project in Perth, Australia and a PhD candidate in the School of Medicine (Paediatrics) at the University of Western Australia.“My passion is prevention and early intervention in chronic conditions, particularly in vulnerable communities, to enable the best quality of life for everyone.”
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Unlocking One’s Creative DNA: How to Personalize Artful Expression for Vibrant Health Using Color & Archetypes
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Deanna Minich is a health educator, nutrition scientist, artist, and author with more than twenty years of experience in nutrition, mind-body health, medical science, and functional medicine. “My passion is bringing forth a colorful whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, soul, and art in medicine.”
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Opportunities and challenges for microbiomics in restoration ecology Jake M. Robinson
Riley Hodgson, Siegy Krauss, Craig Liddicoat, Ashish Malik, Belinda Martin, Jakki J. Mohr, David Moreno-Mateos, Miriam Muños-Rojas, Shawn Peddle, and Martin F. Breed |
Jake Robinson is a microbial ecologist and researcher at Flinders University. He is a member of the UNFCCC resilience frontiers team, working to restore ecosystems and optimise human health. His debut book Invisible Friends is about how microbes shape our lives and the world around us. ”I work across disciplines with the aim of ‘joining the dots’ to promote healthy ecosystems.”
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Urban jungle greenness: geospatial metrics reveal socioecological (in)justices in city centres
Jake M. Robinson Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Robinson, and Paul Brindley |
Jake M. Robinson
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OUR AFFILIATED JOURNAL
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Challenges is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal that welcomes contributions to any problem, or any aspect of the “grand challenges” facing our world and our societies today. It addresses the pressing need to accelerate integrated cross-sectoral discourse toward collaborative solutions to improve every aspect of life on our planet. It provides a key avenue for the Nova Network to share diverse and original research, perspectives, and viewpoints, including the “Nova Interview” with leading experts from different fields.
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