Sustainability Lecture: Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch

Professor Sir Andy Haines discussed the findings of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health, which has documented how these environmental trends pose major challenges to sustaining health advances of recent decades. He outlined how such trends and their drivers can affect a range of health outcomes such as non-communicable diseases, water-related and vector-borne diseases. Furthermore he explored the health effects of increased frequency and intensity of extreme events, such as floods, droughts, and heat waves, and the impacts of environmental change on food security and undernutrition.

The event took place on 8 March and was moderated by Steffen Loft, head of the Department of Public Health at University of Copenhagen, Professor, DMSc.