On January 07, 2011, within the framework of the “Global Health in practice” Forums, Prof. Bruno WALTHER, Research Fellow, Taiwan Endemic Species Research Institute (TESRI) and Assistant Professor for Environmental Science, College of Public Health and Nutrition, Taipei Medical University gave a unique lecture entitled “Emergence of ecological medicine” at Taipei Medical University.This talk presented an introduction to ecological medicine, a discipline which has recently been gaining more and more ground because scientists have realized that interdisciplinary approaches are important in ensuring public health in the emerging environmental age, when globalization, diminishing resources and environmental crises create new and unprecedented challenges to medical research and practice.
Prof. Walther also discussed on new approaches to (1) how human well-being depends on healthy and functional ecosystems, (2) how ecology and evolution can help in understanding and combating emerging diseases and tackle global health issues, and (3) how medical practice can decrease its own environmental footprint.
Finally, he underlined how ecological Medicine invites the biomedical community, ecologists and individuals who are concerned for individual, public and ecosystem health to learn from each other and to embrace a balanced, ecological approach to sustaining health.
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