2025 Annual Symposium Agenda

Our Annual Symposium brings together researchers, clinicians, educators, and sustainability leaders for critical discussions. Sessions will explore key and emerging issues for collectively addressing the urgent challenges and transformative opportunities at the intersection of environmental sustainability, health systems, and health.

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8:30-9:00am – Continental Breakfast & Coffee

9:00-9:30am – Welcome & Opening (Great Hall)

9:30-10:15am – Keynote Speaker

Keynote: Clinical, Community, Ecological, and Planetary Health in a Complex Indigenous Community (Great Hall: 9:30-10:15am)

10:15-10:45am – Break & Posters

Posters available for viewing (East Common Room)

10:45-11:55am – Panel Sessions

From Climate Distress to Collective Action: Participatory Approaches for Mental Health and Well-Being (Great Hall)
Sustainability in Everyday Life: Building Practical and More-than-human Consciousness to Change Policy and Practice (Debates Room)
Community-Engaged Research (Music Room)

12:00-1:30pm – Lunch & Posters

Poster Session (East Common Room: 12:30-1:15pm)
Workshop: Planetary Lunch: An Encounter with Multispecies Lunch Lifeforms – Pre-register to guarantee spot (Music Room: 12:15-1:15pm)

1:30-2:40pm – Panel Sessions

Reducing Environmental Harms of Care (Great Hall)
Planetary Health Education (Debates Room)
Care in a Changing Climate (Music Room)

2:40-3:00pm – Break & Posters

Posters available for viewing (East Common Room)

3:00-4:10pm – Panel Sessions

Climate Costs of Health AI (Great Hall)
Climate & Health Trainee Research (Debates Room)
Bridging the Gap: Quality Improvement & Implementation Science (Music Room)

4:15-5:00pm – Awards & Closing, with passed plant-based hors d’oeuvres