Committee & speakers

Meet the speakers and LOC

Speakers

Mr. Wopke Hoekstra

European Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth
European Commission
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Andy Haines

Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine United Kingdom
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Dr. Judith Rodin

Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation & President Emerita, University of Pennsylvania
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Jemilah Mahmood

Executive Director
Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University, MY

Johan Rockström

Institute Director & Professor in Earth System Science
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research & University of Potsdam
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Melvine Anyango Otieno

Founder, PhD Candidate, Assistant Lecturer
Planetary Health East Africa Regional Hub; University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya; Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
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Samuel Myers

Faculty Director & Founding Director
Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, USA & Planetary Health Alliance
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Sara Khalid

Associate Professor of Health Informatics and Biomedical Data Science
University of Oxford
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Scientific Committee of the PHAM

Alessandro Massazza

United for Global Mental Health, UK

Alexandre Robert

Alliance Santé Planétaire, FR and CH - Climate Action Accelerator, CH

Arfa Shan

Fatima Jinnah Medical University, PK

Balázs Ádám

United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Bristol Moonga Ntebeka

University of Zambia, ZM

Davide Ziveri

Humanity & Inclusion / Handicap International, BE

David Nogues Bravo

University of Copenhagen, DK

Emmanuel Benyeogor

Nagasaki University, JP

Local Organizing Committee PHAM

Hakan Abali

Relationship Manager Impact Education
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Chiara Cadeddu

Associate professor
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Maike Tietschert

Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, NL

Veerle Cannemeijer

Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, NL

Miranda Buis

Erasmus Medical Centre, NL

Fred Balvert

Erasmus Medical Centre, NL

Ed Van Beeck

Erasmus Medical Centre, NL

Tessa Haverkate

Erasmus Medical Centre, NL

Arts Committee

Bwalya Lungu

Educational Technologist
Durban University of Technology

Cecilia Mañosa Nyblon

PGCE, MA | Learning for Sustainability Scotland Development Manager| United Nations University Recognised Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development
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Delas Santano

Senior Lecturer School of Architecture and Design, Department of Creative Design
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Sunway University
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Dr. Sally Flint

Creative Lead
University of Exeter
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Mubinat Olohunkemi Lawal

Research Assistant
University of Ilorin

Vanessa Goes, M.sc

Performer-Dancer - Integrative health professional Executive secretariat at MRN (Mentoring Research Network) Member of the Planetary Health Brazil IEA-USP Member of the Constellation Project at PHA/Nova Institute for Health, USA Co-coordinator at ACIKS (Arts, Culture and Indigenous Knowledge Systems) - ACOPPHE, Kenya

Rotterdam 2025