Earth Brain Health

Commission

Interested in how we can address mental health challenges resulting from environmental megatrends?

Then come to the launch of the Earth Brain Health Commission (mental health) on the 17th September in Berlin!

Environment and the brain

The Earth Brain Health Commission (mental health) aims to address the challenges to brain and mental health resulting from environmental megatrends, such as urbanicity, climate change, pollution and social disparity. The Commission focusses on harnessing technological advances and integrating them in an interdisciplinary way to provide novel solutions to prevention and early intervention of environment-related mental illess that are applicable globally on an individual and societal level.

Join us for a free event on the 17th of September to launch the Commission. Sponsored by Nature, this hybrid event will take place at the Hörsaalruine in the Berlin Museum of Medical History, Charité, Berlin.

Event Details:

Date:          17th September 2024

Location:   Hybrid format on Zoom and at the Hörsaalruine,
                    Berlin Museum of Medical History,
                    Charitéplatz. 1, 10117 Berlin

REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS ALREADY CLOSED. 

For additional information, please contact:

Dr. Esther Hitchen, Project Manager, Charite Universitätsmedizin – Berlin

Vanessa Koehler, Project Manager, concentris

 

Speakers:

SPEAKERS INCLUDE WORLD-RENOWENED EXPERTS

  • Rebecca Cooney, PhD, Editor in Chief, Nature Mental Health
  • Gunter Schumann, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Director, Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) at ISTBI, Fudan University, Shanghai and Charite University Medicine Berlin
  • Peng Gong, PhD, Chair Professor of Global Sustainability & Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Hong Kong University
  • Jürg Luterbacher, PhD, Professor at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Department of Geography Climatology, Climate Dynamics and Climate Change, Co-Chair of the ITU/WMO/UNEP Focus Group on AI for Natural Disaster Management
  • Vivek Benegal, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

 

Agenda:

OPEN MEETING FOR GENERAL PUBLIC: The problem, status, direction of the Commission

14.00h        How does a changing planet affect mental health: introducing the Earth, Brain and Health Commission
                    (Rebecca Cooney / Gunter Schumann)

14.30h         Applying remote sensing of land use and urbanicity for health (Peng Gong)

15.00h         Climate Change, environment and air pollution: potential links and relevance for mental health (Jürg Luterbacher)

15.30h         Coffee break

16.00h        The effects of macroenvironmental changes on brain and behaviour (Gunter Schumann)

16.30h         Notes from a sinking land (or island) (Vivek Benegal)

17.00h         Panel discussion: How to best prevent environment-related mental illness (Xanthe Hunt)

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