How do our surroundings affect our health?

Fri Feb 24 2023 at 12:00 pm to 05:30 pm

M Shed | Bristol

Bristol Inspired
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How do our surroundings affect our health?
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As technology and society changes, so too do our exposures and the risks to our long-term health.
About this Event

This Bristol Inspired event is a half-day workshop led by Phil Taylor (Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Enterprise and George Davey Smith (Professor of Clinical Epidemiology) to discuss ubiquitous exposures and their influence on global health, with an aim of establishing multidisciplinary research clusters to better respond to these challenges as a University.

Health is substantially responsive to changes in our external environment, including changes to our society. Cigarette smoking, for example, substantially increases lung cancer risk and occupational exposure to asbestos has been proven to increase mesothelioma risk.

Many types of cancer are preventable in principle as their incidence rates have rapidly increased over time, which must be in response to some changing circumstance. Higher incidence rates are being recorded in conditions such as pancreatic cancer, leukaemia, lymphomas and many other cancer variants.

These increases in incidence are not limited to cancer; other health domains such as multiple sclerosis, mental health conditions and declining sperm counts also show influence of changing external circumstances. However, these circumstances and their effects on our global health as a population are yet to be sufficiently characterized.

One reason for this is that the causes are ubiquitous, or ever-present, in our environment and not readily identifiable during individual assessments. Major, indiscriminate factors including but not limited to climate, weather, mobile phone use, “everywhere forever” chemicals, marketing and influences on lifestyle must be considered to advance research agendas and ultimately better understand how to manage and mitigate new health risks.

Register your attendance to;

  • Hear experts from our University discuss the challenges and opportunities for research in this area
  • Engage and drive discussion on these topics
  • Collaborate with fellow academics and researchers from different disciplines about how we can move our ideas forward and make a unique impact to our futures.

This event is for University of Bristol staff and students. Lunch is optional and will be served at 12:00, with final service at 12:45PM. For attendees who opt out of lunch, please arrive for 1:00PM. There is an optional networking session following the event from 5:00PM to 5:30PM. The full agenda is below.

Agenda

12:00-12:55 Buffet Lunch/Networking (Lunch stops being served at 12:45) 



12:55-1:00 Guests seated 




Session 1 – Chair: Phil Taylor 




1:00-1:05 Introduction: Phil Taylor 



1:05-1:15 Environment and Health: What if the exposures are ubiquitous? George Davey Smith 



1:15-2:00 Ubiquitous exposure spotlights



1:15-1:20 Daniela Schmidt – climate commission  


1:20-1:25 Frank de Vocht – Mobile Phones 

1:25-1:30 Guy Howard – TBC 


1:30-1:35 Caitlin Robinson – fuel poverty 


1:35-1:40 Dann Mitchell – weather 


1:40-1:45 Rich Pancost  


1:45-1:50 Charlotte Lloyd - plastics 


1:50-1:55 To be confirmed


1:55-2:00 To be confirmed 



2:00-3:00 Panel Discussion, chairs by Phil Taylor 



3:00-3:20 Tea/Coffee break 




Session 2 



3:20-3:25 Introduction to Session 2: Identification of topics and rapporteurs 



3:25-4:15 Small Group Discussions on Specific Topics (chosen by the groups) 



4:15-4:45 Group feedback/ way forward 



4:45-4:55 Funding opportunities and Research Development – Zoe Holland and Sarah Stuart



4:55-5:00 Summary/Close 



5:00-5:30 Networking 

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

M Shed, Wapping Road, Bristol, United Kingdom

Tickets

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