Thank you to everyone who attended the Sidore Symposium on September 26! Videos of the panel discussions are available below...
The symposium offered 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.
Human Health, Planetary Health, and What Sustains Us
Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Symposium
Friday, September 26, 2025
Strafford Room (MUB)
The first panel discussion (global focus) addressed the following questions: How does the climate crisis impact human and planetary health? 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, The College of Wooster |
· Stacia Clinton, RDN, LDN: Senior Project Lead, Health Care Without Harm |
The afternoon panel session (local focus) addressed the following questions from an NGO/state agency/land grant framework: How does the climate crisis impact human and planetary health 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?
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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.
