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Friday, September 26, 2025
Memorial Union Building
Strafford Room
see agenda below
The symposium will offer an expansive view of health and sustainability, posing questions and connections meant to inspire and interrogate ideas about what it means to cultivate a community committed to supporting health, well-being, and sustainability for all. Scientists, philosophers, and other speakers will raise and provide perspectives on critical questions including: How does the climate crisis impact human and planetary health, especially among the most vulnerable populations? What are some of the perspectives, ideas, and solutions we need to ensure health, well-being, and sustainability for all, now and into the future?
Human Health, Planetary Health, and What Sustains Us
Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Symposium
Friday, September 26, 2025
Strafford Room (MUB)
Agenda subject to change
8:30 Welcome remarks
9:10 Panel Discussion (global focus): How does the climate crisis impact human and planetary health, especially among the most vulnerable populations? What are some of the perspectives, ideas, and solutions we need to ensure health, wellbeing, and sustainability for all, now and into the future?
| · Dr. Suellen Breakey: Director of the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health and a Distinguished Teaching Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at MGH Institute of Health Professions |
| · Dr. Susan Clayton: Whitmore-Williams Professor and Department Chair of Psychology, The College of Wooster |
· Stacia Clinton, RDN, LDN: Senior Project Lead, Health Care Without Harm |
10:15 Table talk
10:35 Q&A
11:00 Break and lunch on your own
1:10 Panel session (local focus): How does the climate crisis impact human and planetary health, especially among the most vulnerable populations, here in New Hampshire and New England? What are some of the perspectives, ideas, and solutions we need to ensure health, wellbeing, and sustainability for all, now and into the future?
Framework: NGO, state agency, state land grant
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2:15 Table talk
2:35 Q&A
2:55 Closing remarks
3:00 Adjourn
The Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series was established in 1965 in memory of Saul O Sidore of Manchester, New Hampshire. The purpose of the series is to offer the University community and the state of New Hampshire programs that raise critical and sometimes controversial issues facing our society. The University of New Hampshire Center for the Humanities sponsors the programs. Lectures are free and open to the public.
