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Building on the successful inaugural Planetary Health Meeting in Boston, the goal of the second Planetary Health Annual Meeting in Edinburgh is to bring together new communities around the world to stimulate interdisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration towards ground-breaking solutions to major planetary health challenges. The objective is to examine how the health impacts of various global environmental changes manifest in regional settings, to highlight emerging regional responses to planetary health issues. The meeting will be an opportunity to engage with researchers, policy makers, planners and the communities in each region who experience these planetary health impacts to progress tailored policies built on action-focused research and innovations across sectors. The expectation is that through gathering a diverse group in-person and via regional satellite sessions we will expand the global reach and perspective of the planetary health community in pursuit of advancing planetary health solutions. These regional satellite sessions will serve as the foundation for the evolution of regional planetary health hubs, constituting an effort to institutionalize effective collaboration between various actors and organizations within each region to address the area’s most pressing planetary health issues.
The Planetary Health Alliance along with the University of Edinburgh, the American Geophysical Union, the Wellcome Trust, and The Lancet Planetary Health are organizing the second Planetary Health Annual Meeting on May 29-June 1, 2018 in Edinburgh, UK. The meeting is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation through a grant to the Planetary Health Alliance. We thank the Wellcome Trust for their generous support of travel scholarships and of the satellite meetings taking place on June 1, 2018.