ICS Estudos e Relatórios Nº1 / 2019

ICS E S T U D O S e R E L A T Ó R I O S 2019 urban health intending to formulate recommendations for strategic action on how to implement a systems science for urban health and wellbeing under climate change. Meeting goals and themes The Lisbon Expert Meeting "Implementing systems science for urban health and wellbeing under climate change" was organized in four-panel presentations, each focusing on one sub-theme. After each round of presentations, there was a short Q&A guided by moderators. The Meeting aimed to understand the nexus challenge, to learn from the lessons of examples which experts in the field of urban health and wellbeing presented, and to formulate recommendations for how a systems approach for implementing urban health policies under climate change. The four panels together cover the following discussions: 1. The Nexus Challenge: Climate Change, Health, and Sustainability. The failure of developing sustainably in the global human-environment system goes hand in hand with climate change and the negative impacts it has on human health and wellbeing. In this sub-theme, the context was set, and systemic sustainability challenges were identified. 2. Integrated Approaches to Public Health and Urban Planning. How and why does climate change urge public health officials and agencies to take an integrated approach? What are the institutional shortages, scale mismatches, and communication barriers that public health agencies are facing when dealing with this radical environmental reality? This sub-theme focuses on challenges and opportunities for implementing a more systemic public health management. 3. A "health-centred" science-policy interface. Policymakers have used health as an integrating theme across scientific disciplines and policies. A central idea of a systems approach is to connect the components of systems (or sectors in cities), which enable them to perform their functions. Health is a natural integrator to do so (WHO, 2016). How can we implement systems science for urban health and wellbeing by strengthening a health-centred science-policy interface? 4. Towards a systemic urban health science implementation and communication. What actions are needed and how to move from systemic urban health science to action. How should science communication change, and how can it help to grasp the benefits from an inter- and transdisciplinary systems approach for health and wellbeing under climate change?