Welcome to inVIVO 2020

We are excited to be holding our 9th annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health in collaboration with the KIT Royal Tropical Institute and ARTIS Micropia—the world's first microbe museum. We will also be working closely with the Amsterdam Sustainability Institute and  VU University Amsterdam.  

Key dates

Pre-conference workshops--will begin at ARTIS on June 17 
The Main Scientific Conference—will run at KIT from June 18 through June 20 with some activities also at ARTIS (a short walk away), including a visit to Micropia.
A Public Planetary Health Festival—will run at ARTIS from June 19 through June 21. This public event is intended to promote concepts of planetary health more widely, and we are planning some shared activities (such as a public lecture at the ARTIS Planetarium). ​

Themes

The overarching theme of the meeting will be “Rewilding Spaceship Earth: from Microbes to Mammoths, Music and More”, to underscores the imperative for creative ecological solutions for the global challenges we face in all systems and all scales with advancing global urbanization – for personal, environmental, economic and societal health alike. Our agenda continues to address strategies to overcome global ‘dysbiotic drift’ – life in distress - on every level, bringing together diverse perspectives from across many dimensions of the arts and the sciences, as we explore novel solutions and new normative values. ​

As always our sessions will cover diverse perspectives pertaining to this, as reflected in our broad ranging abstract categories (below). We encourage creative ideas and also welcome other topics.
  • Lifestyle health and Personal Ecology: including nutrition, activity, sleep, mindfulness, and other behaviors (and/or interventions) that influence personal ecology and wellness
  • The Health of Societies and Systems: including the wider social, cultural and economic determinants of health, epidemiology, anthropology, and public health. 
  • The Health of Environments on all scales: including natural and built environments, any and all dimensions of the ‘total exposome’ and interventions to improve these, including approaches to ‘rewilding’.
  • Microbial Systems: Including microbiome ecosystems in humans, animals, diverse environmental systems, impact of human activity, antibiotics, and possible restorative interventions.
  • Developmental Origins: including work that specifically focus on developmental approaches, early interventions, life course trajectories and transgenerational perspectives 
  • Value Systems and Ideologies: including pathways, programs, philosophies, enablers, perspectives, mindsets and/or actions that promote personal, community, and/or planetary health
  • Tools and Platforms: including technology platforms, novel tools, statistics or models to facilitate research and/or health initiatives in any sector. 
  • Creative work: if you would like to share or display something you have created to inspire the group please do!
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