The World We Want: Youth Voices On Climate And Health, Ep.10 PMAC and The Healthy Doughnut
In this series, Jonathan Foster takes a closer look at the lives of youth leaders and activists, discussing the current climate, environment, and health crisis and the possibilities, alternatives, and ideas for transformational change. Listen to what global youth leaders really think about the handling of our intensifying Climate and Health Emergency. This is our tenth episode, brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2023: Setting A New Health Agenda - At The Nexus Of Climate Change, Environment and Biodiversity. The conference was held on the 24-29 January 2023, Bangkok, Thailand. In this special extended episode, Jonathan Foster speaks to Rob Shorter of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Social and Behaviour Change Communication Officer from FHI360 Shreesha Nankhwa and COP27 President Youth Envoy Dr. Omnia El Omrani. In a fascinating and wide ranging conversation Jonathan and his guests talk about Doughnut Economics, the past, the present and the future of economics, our current power structures and what needs to change, the structural nature of change and listening instead of talking! They also hear about some actual tools you can engage with to make change in your communities and they discuss the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2023, some of the discussions held by the youth envoys and the learning they gained. Rob Shorter is the Communities & Art Lead at DEAL. Amount other work Rob explores how the holistic goal of Doughnut Economics opens a space for collective imagining and action within communities of place and purpose around the world. Shreesha Nankhwa is an environmental communication professional based in Kathmandu. She is working as a Social and Behavior Change Communication Officer for USAID Clean Air at FHI360 Nepal. She has more than five years of experience working with local government, communities, and marginalized groups to lead local level evidence-based policy advocacy, awareness and behaviour change initiatives in order to mitigate environmental issues collaboratively from the ground level up. Omnia El Omrani is the first official Youth Envoy for the COP27 President and a Plastic Surgery Resident from Egypt. She is a Commissioner at the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Post-COVID Population Health, a Youth Sounding Board member of the EU Commission DG-INTPA, an associate at Women Leaders for Planetary Health, and a member of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety and UNICEF-Az Youth Leaders Programme. This podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), and Jonathan Foster of Foster Media, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), FHI 360, The World Health Organisation, The British Medical Journal, USAID, and Foster Media. First established in 1998, the Prince Mahidol Award Conference has grown to be one of the most important fora to discuss public health issues of global significance and the largest to be led by a low- or middle-income country. Theme tune written and produced by Caleb Fawcett. Find him on www.calebfawcett.com
