Healthy People, Healthy Planet is a new virtual speaker series designed for faculty, staff, and learners in the Queens community that focuses on the intersection of lifestyle and global health to promote healthy behaviors and optimal well-being. It will come true. Six sessions will be held throughout April, covering topics such as healthy sleep, eating, sustainability, and physical activity.
Register for one or more of these free virtual events. If you have any questions or are interested in supporting this project, please use this form.
Is sustainable and healthy eating possible for everyone?
April 3rd from 12:00 to 13:00
Learning objectives:
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outline a healthy diet
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Explaining sustainable eating in general terms
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Quantifying the extent to which global adherence to EAT-Lancet Commission dietary targets can prevent premature death
Speaker: Dr. Walter Willett is a physician and epidemiologist and professor of epidemiology and nutrition at Harvard University's TH Chan School of Public Health. He served as dean of the nutrition department at Harvard University for his 25 years. Read more about Dr. Willett.
Introduction to sleep for healthcare professionals: A lifestyle medicine approach
April 11th from 5pm to 6pm
Learning objectives:
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Identify the components of healthy sleep
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Discuss the physiological and psychological roles of sleep
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Explaining the bidirectional relationship between sleep and health
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Identify the most common sleep disorders and treatments
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Consider approaches to sleep for healthcare workers (on-call and shift workers) and young families
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Explaining the key to optimal sleep
Speaker: Dr. Param Dedia, a curious internist and passionate integrative medicine practitioner. He is a popular speaker and physician, bringing medicine into our daily lives.Read more about Dr. Dedia
What if it came in a pill? Physical activity as a “cure” for chronic diseases in the 21st century
April 17th, noon to 1:00 p.m.
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Understand the health benefits of exercise
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Gain insight into why aerobic exercise and strength training (weightlifting) are equally important for health
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Understand the difference between physical activity and exercise
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Learn why exercise is a key way to stay healthy as you age
speaker: Dr. Stuart Phillips He is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and a member of the McMaster University School of Medicine. He is Canada's Tier 1 Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health.Read more about Dr. Phillips
Global impacts on livestock and the environment, food security and social justice
April 22nd (Earth Day) 12:00pm – 1:00pm
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Understand the mechanisms by which animal foods have a greater ecological impact than high-quality plant protein foods
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Identify parameters of global ecosystems that are primarily affected by livestock farming
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Explain how food security is affected by livestock farming
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Discuss the suitability of plant proteins in human nutrition
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Describe the impact of livestock farming on pandemics and infectious diseases
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Review common misinformation tactics used by the livestock industry
Speaker: Dr. Tushar Mehta After completing medical school, he completed his residency at the University of Toronto. She currently practices emergency medicine in Brampton, Ontario and participates in global health projects.Read more about Dr. Mehta
Unified theory of lifestyle medicine
April 25th 12:00-13:00
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Describe and understand biological mechanisms common to many chronic diseases
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Explain and understand how diet and lifestyle choices affect each of these biological mechanisms, for better or worse
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Understand the hypothesis of why these lifestyle changes may halt or reverse the progression of early-stage Alzheimer's disease and the ongoing randomized controlled clinical trials to test this hypothesis
Speaker: Dr. Dean Ornish He is the founder and director of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and a professor of clinical medicine at UCSD. For more than 45 years, he has led clinical research to demonstrate for the first time that comprehensive lifestyle changes can begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease without drugs or surgery. I have been conducting. Read more about Dr. Ornish.
What’s missing in medicine: Lifestyle medicine solutions
April 29th, noon to 1:00 p.m.
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Discuss the origins of the scientific evidence supporting diet and lifestyle choices that influence the incidence of multiple sclerosis.
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Explain the science of epigenetics and its possible role in chronic disease outcomes
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Understanding the concepts of etiology and salutogenesis in current medical education models
Speaker: Dr. Sarai Stancic Triple board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and lifestyle diseases. For the past 20 years, Dr. Stancic has worked to advance the power of preventive and lifestyle medicine on a global scale and bring about needed changes in the way physicians are trained.Read more about Dr. Stancic
