Margaret Hannah (LinkedIn, Twitter) is Director of Health Programmes of International Futures Forum (IFF). We spoke in early February, before Russia invaded Ukraine. Our conversations covers public health, especially its psychological and social determinants, planetary health, and creating a different kind of human being to address the poly-crises.How can we have a population of all who have the human skills of real learning, turning epiphanies into next steps so that society can adapt to challenges they are facing? I know Margaret through IFF. In our conversation she mentions various tools they have created, all of which are linked to below. LinksKitbag "creates a space to become calm, share feelings and grow quality relationships".'The Body Keeps The Score' (A phrase Margaret uses at 3:09) is the title of an excellent book (Wikipedia) by Bessel van der Kolk on the effects of psychological trauma, also known as traumatic stress."The COVID-19 pandemic has starkly exposed how these existing inequalities - and the interconnections between them such as race, gender or geography, are associated with an increased risk of becoming ill with a disease such as COVID-19." Local Government AssociationThe Black Report on health inequalities in 1980 (mentioned by at about 6:05).Three Horizons model is explained on the IFF website here. The key book is Bill Sharpe's 'Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope', which I summarise and review here.Planetary Health Alliance is "a consortium of over 300 universities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and government entities from around the world committed to understanding and addressing global environmental change and its health impacts." Tagline: Our Health Depends on Our Environment.IFF Persons of Tomorrow Breakfasts explained here.Charter of Compassion has a vision of "A world where everyone is committed to living by the principle of compassion."Timings0:55 - Q1 What are you doing now? And how did you get there?9:11 -- BONUS QUESTION: What is Kitbag?18:50 - Q2. What is the future you are trying to create, and why?24:52 - Q3. What are your priorities for the next few years, and why?27:21 - Q4. If someone was inspired to follow those priorities, what should they do next?28:30 - Q5. If your younger self was starting their career now, what advice would you give them?29:4Twitter: Powerful_TimesWebsite hub: here.Please do like and subscribe, to help others find the podcast.Thank you for listening! -- David

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