Fall Meeting 2022

December 12 - 16, 2022

A healthy environment is the foundation for human well-being. Ensuring healthy environment require promoting stewardship of the entire Earth system that is essential for supporting human wellbeing and the sustainability of Earth systems. Holistic and systemic approaches to environmental stewardship and human health, whereby the identified challenges for all aspects of Earth’s life-support system (e.g., clean air, freshwater, food production, habitats for species) have been pursued together with the socioeconomic and health dimensions (e.g., gender, equity, poverty, morbidity and mortality). Several frameworks have been developed recently to help ensure that research and policy development take account of these complex interrelations. However, much of the scientific evidence about the environmental effects on human health has a narrower focus. Also, environmental pressures and their impacts on health and well-being are not equitably distributed. They especially hit groups that are already vulnerable or disadvantaged, such as younger, older and female groups, poor people, those with chronic health conditions, indigenous people and those targeted by racial profiling. Undoubtedly, taking a more holistic view of this problem with due consideration to socioeconomic, demography and gender disparities, these significantly different statistics would be of great help for developing better strategies to tackle these societal challenges. We plan to invite keynote speakers to frame such a holistic approach to environment and health research, and welcome abstracts regarding scientific challenges and opportunities to further promote such holistic approach.