Organisation / Hub: The Synergist in collaboration with Inner Development Goals and Novartis

Contact Person: Helena Harnik (The Synergist)

Link: https://sustainablehealth.synapseconnect.org/

Contact Email: Helena@thesynergist.org

Description


Building people-centered & resilient systems for ‘One Health’ & Well-being, including the skills, network and a whole system to deliver on it.

We are accelerating collective action on sustainable health and wellbeing including through capacity building for system change agents globally.

Learnings

We invite you to join a journey of collective learning to accelerate global collective action on sustainable health and well-being through co-creation, capacity building and a collaborative network.

We engaged with leaders across sectors and geographies to explore the current polycrisis (multi-layered ecological and societal crises)  through the lens of health and care systems globally under the umbrella of Sustainable Health and Well-being. Based on these conversations, we co-wrote a concept note enhancing how a collective approach through initiatives such as the Inner Development Goals in combination with a wider Sustainable Health & Well-being community presents an opportunity to accelerate this wider converging effort to address an urgent global need.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this collaborative effort by:

What is the Sustainable Health and Well-being movement?

In today’s world, where humans are the primary driver of change in Earth’s ecological and bio-physical systems, we must enable personal agency and apply systems awareness in pursuit of a sustainable future. In the process of innovation, we often make choices that do not take into account second or third order effects, and we find ourselves operating in a health system which is unsustainable, impacting health inclusivity, equity and well-being.

There is an opportunity not only to mitigate and adapt to the potential health impacts of climate change, threatening ecosystem collapse, and emergent technologies, but to do so in a way that will lead to a more abundant future, strengthen health systems and enable us to reach our collective goal of better outcomes and well-being for people and patients worldwide.

We also need to reinforce inter-sectoral connections with practices of system thinking, shared vision, personal mastery, observation of mental models, team learning; to speak a common complexity-informed language across sectors and growing in complementary directions. Join us, share your thoughts, and let’s co-create more sustainable health and resilient care systems towards abundant futures for people, patients, and the planet!

To reach the vision where all people can benefit from “one health” and well-being, we need effective collective action, based on a practice of systems awareness, resilience and transformation, developed and applied in close partnership with people and patients.

Learnings