Health – JF Kuhlmann

September 28, 2018

Digitization of Healthcare

In the midst of accelerated digitization and ubiquitous proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and algorithms for improved system efficiency, the implications of preventable losses and forgone gains due to rash implementation decisions and hesitant behaviour are much more profound for health and healthcare than for other, more commercial products and sectors. The stakes are high for correct diagnosis and treatment, protecting patient records and assuring ethical integrity of health care.

May 16, 2018

Driving Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in Cities Through Nature-based Solutions

Best-Off, Climate, Environment, Health, Urban Development

Nature-based Solutions (NBS) their multiple benefits for urban resilience and adaptation to climate change, transforming urban spaces and planning processes in the interests of more livable and resilient cities, and the supportive framework conditions for implementing and mainstreaming NBS.

February 28, 2018

Bottom-Up Urban Development – What does Transition actually do?

Health, Social Equity, Urban Development

To prevent further transgressing planetary boundaries and rectify social and environmental injustices, Transition Town movements that build on a bottom-up approach can demand politics and economy to place humanity and the individual back at the center of economic activities and decision making.

2017-10-12, UNFCCC, COP23 High Level event on Planetary Health cover

November 20, 2017

COP23, Momentum for Change: HL Event – Planetary Health

Climate, Health

In collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, a high-level panel of experts explored the emerging field of Planetary Health and real solutions that balance the need for healthy communities with stewardship of natural ecosystems, related to implementing the Paris Agreement and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Health as a driver of climate policy and green behavior

November 12, 2017

Health as a Motivator of Climate Policy and Household Green Behavior

Climate, Health

COP23 – Health Day Health as a Motivator of Climate Policy and Household Green Behavior Evidence has shown that invoking health as the “human face of climate change” as a positive argument for climate action, e.g. huge health co-benefits from mitigation, motivate households and policy makers to implement mitigation actions. Especially in OECD countries, where […]