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MD and Founder of Health in Harmony, Kinari Webb, shares her insights on her organisation’s work improving the lives of people in the communities around Gunung Palung National Park in Borneo through increased and affordable health care, decreased logging of the park and introduction of alternative incomes sources.

Professor Corinna Hawkes provides a broad global perspective on the central challenges for food systems, as an opening to the Food stream of the conference.

Annie Quick, lead for Wellbeing and Inequality at the New Economics Foundation, outlines some of the issues around inequality and the environment in the UK, considers the political context, and attempts to offer a hope for the future.

Dr Lisa Page considers how we can conduct robust epidemiological research on how rising heat affects mental health.

From the session "Climate Change & Mental Health" at Medact's 2016 Forum "Healthy Planet, Better World".

Find out more at https://www.medact.org/forum-2016

Hugh Grant-Peterkin considers how psychotherapeutic thinking can help us understand our response to climate change; and opens up the session to a group discussion.

From the session "Climate Change & Mental Health" at Medact's 2016 Forum "Healthy Planet, Better World".

Find out more at https://www.medact.org/forum-2016

Sally Weintrobe discusses the relationship between mental health, climate change, and a culture of uncare, arguing that climate change is a symptom of a much deeper problem affecting mental health.

From the session "Climate Change & Mental Health" at Medact's 2016 Forum "Healthy Planet, Better World".

Find out more at http://www.sallyweintrobe.com/ and https://www.medact.org/forum-2016/

David McCoy speaking at Medact's Fracking Masterclass in Sheffield on fracking's impacts on health.

Joanne Hawkins speaking at Medact's Fracking Masterclass in Sheffield on Regulation.

Patrick Saunders speaking at Medact's Fracking Masterclass on the potential risks to human health.

The Humanitarian Imperative to Ban Nuclear Weapons Find out how the international Humanitarian Initiative on nuclear weapons is creating an urgent argument for change by focusing attention on the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental impact of these WMDs. Including the 2015 launch of nuclear weapons divestment report ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ by Netherlands-based NGO PAX.

SPEAKERS: Monika Zach (Austrian Embassy, London), Dr Beyza Unal (Chatham House), Rebecca Sharkey (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Wilbert van der Zeijden (PAX) and Maaike Beenes (PAX). Chaired by Dr Frank Boulton (Medact).