3rd Planetary Health Conference

Associate Professor PD DDr. Daniela Haluza, MSc
Associate Professor of Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna 

Keynote: Planetary Health: Public Health on Steroids?

_{About the author: Daniela Haluza is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna, where she heads the Green Public Health research group. She studied medicine, applied medical sciences and environmental management, and is a specialist in clinical microbiology and hygiene. Her academic work combines environmental medicine and sustainability issues, with a particular focus on nature and health, climate change, biodiversity and health-promoting urban environments. As a committed science ambassador and speaker, she is known to a wide national and international audience through her numerous contributions and interviews in the print media, on the radio and on television.}

Dr Ruth Kutalek
Medical anthropologist and professor at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna

Keynote: Planetary Health, Inequality and the Utopia of Participation

_{About the speaker: Ruth Kutalek is a medical anthropologist and professor at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine at the Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna. She works at the intersection of public health and anthropology. Her research focuses on anthropological perspectives on infectious diseases (Ebola, Mpox, measles), particularly the viewpoints of the affected communities. In addition, she has worked on participatory models in crisis and disaster preparedness. She has carried out research in several African countries and supported the WHO in emergency response operations. Dr Kutalek has been and continues to be the principal investigator (PI) on several EU-funded and national research projects, such as SoNAR-Global, ISIDORe, CAVE and Sonar Cities.}