SMASH Virtual Events
SMaSH is holding a programme of virtual events. The format will be as follows:
- Presentations will be delivered via teleconference – please below for details
- Powerpoint slides will be circulated in advance of the teleconference with the presenter guiding attendees through them
- Questions and answers will be moderated: the chair will receive questions via email or text to pose to the presenter
- Overall the session will last about 1 hour
Presentation slides as well as the recordings of the completed sessions are available on this page.
The following sessions have been scheduled:
3 December 2019 (13:30 – 14:30)
The Planetary Health Alliance 2019 Conference ‘Watch Party’ #3
This is our third and final watch party in relation to the above conference. This video is entitled ‘Mobilizing a Planetary Health Movement‘ and is 47 minutes long. After the video has concluded please dial in where we can have a 10 – 15 minute discussion. The teleconference details will be made available shortly.
Please also follow this link for further details of the speakers, scroll about halfway down until the ‘Mobilizing a Planetary Health Movement’ title (Day 1).
21 November 2019 (14:00 – 15:00)
The Planetary Health Alliance 2019 Conference ‘Watch Party’ #2
This will be our second watch party where we will be watching the video entitled Food Connects Land and Sea: Integrating Oceans into the Future of Food for the first 45 minutes, then we can dial in for a 10 – 15 minute discussion. The teleconference details will be made available shortly.
Please also follow this link for further details of the speakers, scroll about two thirds of the way down until you see the title ‘Food Connects Land and Sea: Integrating Oceans into the Future of Food (Day 2)’.
23 October 2019 (12:00 – 13:00)
The Planetary Health Alliance 2019 Conference ‘Watch Party’
This will be the first of three watch parties, where attendees will watch specific YouTube videos recorded by The PHA during their conference in September 2019. We will be connected via teleconference , with time for comments and discussion at the end of each party.
This video is entitled NCDs and Planetary Health: Common Challenges and Co-Beneficial Solutions
Please also follow this link to the agenda, where under Day 2 4pm further details of the panelists can be found be clicking on each of their names.
12 February 2019 (11.00-12.00)
Carly McLachlan, Manchester University will present on The Paris Agreement to local action on Climate Change: developing carbon budgets and ambitious action in Greater Manchester.
Based on the work done with Greater Manchester Combined Authority on setting carbon budgets and Carly’s role in the Mayor’s Green Summit Steering group which has sought to engage citizens and consider co-benefits of carbon mitigation.
Carly McLachlan is Senior Lecturer in Energy and Climate Change, currently working on projects including new models for community energy finance, rapid emissions reductions in the car sector, innovations in the water-energy-food nexus and supporting climate change mitigation policy in local authorities. Her research interests focus on how stakeholders, including the public, engage with energy and sustainability issues and related participative research design. She has a BSc in Management and a PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies.
8 January 2019 (12.30-13.30)
Catharine Ward Thompson, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh will present ‘Linking urban green space and health: opportunities and challenges for all ages’.
Catharine Ward Thompson is Professor of Landscape Architecture and directs OPENspace – the research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments – based at the University of Edinburgh (http://www.openspace.eca.ac.uk). She has led several multidisciplinary research collaborations investigating relationships between environment and health, including GreenHealth, which used innovative techniques to explore links between green space and stress mitigation in deprived urban populations, and Mobility, Mood and Place, focused on access outdoors and older people’s quality of life. Current research uses a longitudinal approach based on natural experiments to investigate the effects of environmental interventions on wellbeing. Catharine has advised on implementation of NHS Health Scotland’s Place Standard and Research Councils UK and Innovate UK’s Urban Living Partnership. She also recently co-authored a report for WHO’s European Regional office on links between urban green spaces and health.
13 December 2018 (12.30-13.30)
Ben Wheeler, Exeter University will present on Natural environments and health and wellbeing: Evidence and connections with local/national/international health and environmental policy.
Ben Wheeler is a Senior Research Fellow at the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, at the University of Exeter Medical School. He has a BSc in Environmental Science and a PhD in Social Medicine, and has worked in medical schools and geography departments in the UK, USA and New Zealand. His research interests lie in environment-health interconnections, health geographies and socio-economic health inequalities. Ben primarily applies geographical and epidemiological methods to research the impacts, both positive and negative, that the environment can have on human health. Current projects include investigations of the benefits of natural environments (especially urban greenspace and coastal environments) for health and wellbeing. They also include studies of the impacts of pollen on asthma and allergies, and modelling the future weather-related impacts of climate change on mental health. With colleagues in Truro and elsewhere, he has been collaborating with partners to use the evidence to inform health and environmental policy at various scales, from local authorities, to Defra/Natural England, to the World Health Organisation. Ben’s Profile: http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/people/profile/index.php?web_id=Benedict_W_Wheeler
28 June 2018 (12:30 – 13:30)
Jackie Hyland, NHS Tayside, led a presentation on Air Quality as a pilot session for the SMASH ‘CPD’ events.
Further sessions are being arranged.
If you would like more information or wish to join presentations, please email ScotPHN.