Integrating Public and Ecosystem Health Systems to Foster Resilience: A Workshop to Identify Research to Bridge the Knowledge-to-Action Gap: Proceedings of a Workshop (2023)
Chapter: Appendix A: Statement of Task
Appendix A
Statement of Task
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) will organize a workshop to inform the development of a research agenda aimed at bridging the knowledge-to-action gap related to integrating public health and conservation to foster resilience in these interconnected systems. The workshop will bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners from the public health, natural resource management, and environmental protection communities to exchange knowledge, discuss critical gaps in understanding and practice, and identify promising research that could support development of domestic and international policy and practice. It will provide a venue to build stronger links among researchers working in different disciplines, and among researchers and practitioners. Specific areas to be explored at the workshop include:
- Current intellectual frameworks for integrating public health, natural resource management, and environmental protection research, policies, and practices to foster resilience in complex, interconnected systems (including Planetary Health, One Health, nature-based solutions, and ecosystem services), synergies among these frameworks, and consideration of how they may continue to evolve to reflect emerging understanding and priorities
- Recent research results and emerging areas for future research advances, including research related to characterizing and quantifying the public health effects associated with conservation, natural resource management, and other environmental and land-use practices; metrics that incorporate public and ecological health outcomes, including consideration of equity; how financing influences public and ecological health outcomes; and public health and conservation communication
- Efforts to integrate public and ecological health considerations in policy and practice, what has worked, and where have there been challenges
- Identification of key elements of a knowledge-to-action research agenda for integrating public and ecological health to foster resilience in these interconnected systems
- Discussion of how a research agenda could be advanced, including opportunities to build better connections between research communities, and between practitioner and policy maker or decision-maker communities, in advancing research and practice
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