The patient earth
The topic of this seminar is based on an article from 1993:
In search of a global social medicine (pdf).
After publishing the article, Fugelli and a group of students established a forum called "The patient earth". The forum inspired students and researchers at the Faculty of Medicine to focus on global health.
Download presentations (pdf)
- "Planetary health - human health and global environmental change" by Sir Andrew Haines
- Discussion by Kristian Aunan
- Discussion by Preben Ottesen
- Death and planetary health by Per Fugelli (published in the Lancet)
Program
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The patient Earth in 20 years - In search of a global social medicine |
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| 15.00 | Introduction | Espen Bjertness, Professor, University of Oslo |
| 15.15 |
"Planetary health - human health and global environmental change" |
Sir Andrew Haines, Chairman, Lancet Commission on Planetary Health |
| 16.00 | Discussion of lectures by two opponents |
Kristin Aunan, CICERO and Preben Ottesen, Folkehelseinstituttet |
| 16.45 | Summing up |
John-Arne Røttingen, Professor, University of Oslo |
About Andrew Haines
Andy Haines interests are in epidemiology and health services research. He has published many articles on primary care research and global health issues, particularly on climate change and health.
He was a member of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the second and third Assessment Reports in 1996 and 2001 and review editor for the health chapter in the report of WG 2 in the fifth assessment exercise. He chaired the Scientific Advisory Panel for the 2013 WHO World Health Report on Research for Universal Health Coverage.
He has led a number of Lancet series including chairing the Task Force on Climate Change Mitigation and Public Health, which was supported by a consortium of funding bodies led by the Wellcome Trust to provide estimates of the public health impacts of climate change mitigation strategies in the electricity generation, household energy, transport and food/agriculture sectors which were published in 2009.
About Per Fugelli
As a general practitioner, Per Fugelli has been an independent critic of his own profession for many years. He has opposed the bureaucratisation of Norwegian health care institutions. Fugelli takes a humanistic approach to health and social policy, focussing on the entire individual. He has shown that the best "social medicine" is to build up and share dignity with vulnerable groups such as ethnic minorities, the poor and those who are physically challenged.
Through countless lectures and fearless participation in a large number of important debates, he has been a prominent contributor to Norway's public space fora for a long time. He was awarded The Freedom of Expression Prize 2013.
Pictures from the event
Photo: Øyvind Larsen and Espen Bjertness, UiO