. 2019 Nov 5;16(21):4302.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214302.

Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities

Susan L Prescott^{1

2}, Trevor Hancock³, Jeffrey Bland⁴, Matilda van den Bosch⁵, Janet K Jansson⁶, Christine C Johnson⁷, Michelle Kondo⁸, David Katz⁹, Remco Kort¹⁰, Anita Kozyrskyj¹¹, Alan C Logan², Christopher A Lowry¹², Ralph Nanan¹³, Blake Poland¹⁴, Jake Robinson¹⁵, Nicholas Schroeck¹⁶, Aki Sinkkonen¹⁷, Marco Springmann¹⁸, Robert O Wright¹⁹, Ganesa Wegienka⁷

Affiliations

¹ The ORIGINS Project, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth Childrens Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
² inVIVO Planetary Health of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), West New York, NJ 10704, USA.
³ School of Public Health and Social Policy (retired), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Canada.
⁴ Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, Tacoma, WA 98443, USA.
⁵ Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁶ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
⁷ Henry Ford Health System and Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
⁸ USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
⁹ Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Yale University, Derby, CT 06418, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Molecular Cell Biology, VU University Amsterdam (VUA), 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
¹² Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
¹³ Charles Perkins Centre Nepean, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.
¹⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T, Canada.
¹⁵ Department of Landscape,, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
¹⁶ School of Law Detroit, University of Detroit Mercy, MI 48226, USA.
¹⁷ Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, University of Helsinki, 15140 Lahti, Finland.
¹⁸ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
¹⁹ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

PMID: 31694316
PMCID: PMC6861902
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16214302

Eighth Annual Conference of inVIVO Planetary Health: From Challenges to Opportunities

Susan L Prescott et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2019.

. 2019 Nov 5;16(21):4302.

doi: 10.3390/ijerph16214302.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ The ORIGINS Project, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth Childrens Hospital, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
² inVIVO Planetary Health of the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), West New York, NJ 10704, USA.
³ School of Public Health and Social Policy (retired), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Canada.
⁴ Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, Tacoma, WA 98443, USA.
⁵ Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences , University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
⁶ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Biological Sciences Division, Richland, WA 99352, USA.
⁷ Henry Ford Health System and Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES), Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202, USA.
⁸ USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
⁹ Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Yale University, Derby, CT 06418, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Molecular Cell Biology, VU University Amsterdam (VUA), 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada.
¹² Department of Integrative Physiology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
¹³ Charles Perkins Centre Nepean, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.
¹⁴ Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T, Canada.
¹⁵ Department of Landscape,, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.
¹⁶ School of Law Detroit, University of Detroit Mercy, MI 48226, USA.
¹⁷ Ecosystems and Environment Research Program, University of Helsinki, 15140 Lahti, Finland.
¹⁸ Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK.
¹⁹ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.

PMID: 31694316
PMCID: PMC6861902
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph16214302

Abstract

inVIVO Planetary Health (inVIVO) is a progressive scientific movement providing evidence, advocacy, and inspiration to align the interests and vitality of people, place, and planet. Our goal is to transform personal and planetary health through awareness, attitudes, and actions, and a deeper understanding of how all systems are interconnected and interdependent. Here, we present the abstracts and proceedings of our 8th annual conference, held in Detroit, Michigan in May 2019, themed "From Challenges, to Opportunities". Our far-ranging discussions addressed the complex interdependent ecological challenges of advancing global urbanization, including the biopsychosocial interactions in our living environment on physical, mental, and spiritual wellbeing, together with the wider community and societal factors that govern these. We had a strong solutions focus, with diverse strategies spanning from urban-greening and renewal, nature-relatedness, nutritional ecology, planetary diets, and microbiome rewilding, through to initiatives for promoting resilience, positive emotional assets, traditional cultural narratives, creativity, art projects for personal and community health, and exploring ways of positively shifting mindsets and value systems. Our cross-sectoral agenda underscored the importance and global impact of local initiatives everywhere by contributing to new normative values as part of a global interconnected grass-roots movement for planetary health.

Keywords: DOHaD; NCDs; allergy; art and creativity; biodiversity; biophilosophy; birth cohorts; climate change; cultural competency; dysbiotic drift; ecology; environmental health; extinction of experience; food systems; green prescriptions; green space; health equity; health promotion; indigenous health; inflammation; legal perspectives; mental health; microbiome; mindsets; narrative medicine; nature relatedness; obesity; personalized medicine; planetary health; positive emotions; rewilding; social justice; solastalgia; stress.

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Conflict of interest statement

C.A.L. serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Immodulon Therapeutics. All other authors declare no conflict of interest.

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**Figure 1**
The theme of the 8th annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health, held in Detroit, Michigan from 15–17 May, 2019 was “From Challenges, to Opportunities”.

**Figure 2**
The Conference Program Overview: This shows the overarching structure of the meeting, demonstrating the flow and evolution of interdependent concepts as the meeting evolved. This structure is reflected in the order of the proceedings below (abstracts are presented from each of these sessions to provide further detail of the content).

**Figure 3**
The Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors (CURES)’ approaches to complex urban exposures and public health.

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