A centralised, hierarchical approach to public health has served us well in the past but public health on our human planet will look different.
Rather than defer to a handful of leading institutions, we’ll need constant dialogue between distributed networks of expertise. The size and profile of your organisation will matter less - it’s your ability to listen and make connections that will determine your impact.
The new era of public health will depend on our ability to pool insights and connect rapidly - maintaining a frictionless flow of information, and continuous conversation, between teams in different fields of study and different locations.
Healthy networks in action
Our involvement in the points to the kind of approach we mean: independent groups of scientists looking at a global challenge through a global, cross disciplinary lens; and using the largest ever datasets linking environmental stressors, climate and health, to develop solutions both nationally and internationally. Read more.