IN mid-April, I attended a journalism workshop at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The workshop, a pre-event to the 2024 Planetary Health Summit and 6th Annual Meeting, was hosted by the Sunway Center of Planetary Health, one of Sunway University’s research institutions. The center focuses on preventing the next pandemic, addressing the climate emergency, creating healthy cities and achieving sustainable food systems.
Planetary health, according to The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health, refers to achieving the highest standard of health, well-being and equity worldwide by paying attention to the political, economic and social systems that shape humanity’s future as well as the Earth’s natural systems that define safe environmental limits. It emphasizes the reciprocal relationship between human health and the health of ecosystems, biodiversity, climate and other environmental factors. It recognizes that human health is deeply intertwined with the planet’s health.
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