The 2024 Planetary Health Summit and 6th Annual Meeting will acknowledge and internalize the fact that its roots in academia now position it well to be transformative, and that to rise to this challenge Planetary Health must become transdisciplinary and grounded on partnerships and collaboration with other health-based solutions movements, such as One Health and Environmental Health, and fully joined up with and engaged in regional and global processes. This includes those being managed by regional and sub-regional organizations, and the United Nations such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and successor arrangements, summits called by the Secretary-General, such as the 2024 Summit for the Future, and work led by the UN’s Resident Coordinators at country level.
In this 6th installation of the Planetary Health Summit and Annual Meeting, the message will be clear: For science to be transformational, it must be crafted for action and communicated in ways that the public can understand, and decision-makers can act on.
The primary outcome document from the conference will be a global roadmap which will translate the wealth of evidence-based knowledge so that it can be used by Planetary Health leaders and stakeholders to influence policies and behavioural norms more directly and effectively.
Participants in the PHAM 2024 preparatory process are invited to support the development of this roadmap between June 2023 and January 2024. They will be supported by a drafting team. The final version of the roadmap will be assembled in February and March and circulated prior to the April summit in Malaysia. The roadmap will be focused on these four focus areas:
Reimagining governance institutions fit for the 21st century and beyond
Engaging the education sector in revolutionizing approaches to education
Building a science informed popular global communications and advocacy campaign for Planetary Health
Engaging businesses to commit to operating in alignment with Planetary Health principles