10. elokuuta 2026
Dentalia
Europe/Helsinki aikavyöhyke

Tieteellinen ohjelma

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Planetary Health Symposium Programme

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8.00 Coffee and networking​

8.20 - 10.00 Session I: Major drivers of planetary change and sustainability ​

Overconsumption: From excess to enough – Juulia Räikkönen, Senior Research Fellow, UTU​

Population decline and reproductive challenges - Jorma Toppari, MD PhD, Professor, UTU​

Keynote: Perspectives on Planetary health - Sirpa Pietikäinen, Member of European Parliament ​

BREAK

10.20 - 12.00: Session II – Fundamental health challenges and planetary well-being​

Keynote: Health in the time of planetary crisis - Mikaela Grotenfelt-Enegren, MD, Chief Physician, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare​

Tick-borne diseases - Jukka Hytönen, Professor, UTU​

Antimicrobial resistance - Antti Hakanen, Chief Physician, Turku University Hospital​ and Director, Microbe Centre, UTU and Varha

Large language models for scalable mental health support - Shaoxiong Ji, Assistant Professor, UTU​


LUNCH​

13.00 – 14.00: Session III – Food for all, but how? ​

Resilient food systems - Saska Tuomasjukka, Senior Researcher, UTU​

Sustainable food for health - Kati Hanhineva, Professor, UTU​

COFFEE BREAK

14.30 - 16.00: Session IV - Sustainable futures ​

Prerequisites for nature-positive travel and tourism - Esko Sorakunnas, Postdoctoral Researcher, UTU​

Green infrastructure and multispecies wellbeing - Nora Fagerholm, Professor, UTU​

Hope for the future? – Ricardo Henriques Correia, Assistant Professor, UTU​

16.00 Closing of the Symposium​

16.05 - 17.00 Refreshments, networking and entertainment by The Young Ones