We are delighted to welcome Tom who will be talking about ‘Situating mental health within the nature-climate-wellbeing triple challenge: Evidence from rural Uganda’.
Ecological change poses new and significant threats to human health, such as infectious diseases emerging at the forest-farm frontier. There is a growing understanding of how this change impacts physical health. But, comparatively little is known about the consequences for mental illness – an emerging global priority. I will discuss how changing landscapes affect lives and livelihoods in ways that affect mental health, drawing on a western Ugandan case study. Building on this, we can discuss how approaches to the triple challenge – like plans to expand protected areas to 30% of the world’s surface by 2030 – might support or undermine global mental health.
The link is back to the usual zoom link at 1pm:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82403010141?pwd=dFZscFpSOVZTOVJJa0pkc1ZHNnUyQT09
Tom will be in Cambridge for Tuesday and Wednesday so if anyone would like to meet him in person please get in touch. The talk will be held online as usual.
