{"id":4507,"date":"2025-04-02T12:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2025-04-11T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:32:37","slug":"diary-three-days-of-planetary-health-discussions-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/hrpc\/diary-three-days-of-planetary-health-discussions-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary: Three days of planetary health discussions in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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n a pleasant, balmy morning in late February, I arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Over 40 kilometres and a scenic, hour-long taxi ride later, I reached Sunway City, a township in the neighbouring city of Subang Jaya. This was the home of Sunway University and the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, which hosted the annual\u00a0Planetary Health Summit<\/a>\u00a0last April. It was also the venue for the workshop I was attending \u2013 a chapter of the Capacity Development and Training Series for Media Professionals, where we gathered to discuss planetary health, with a focus on extreme heat and human health.<\/p>

The workshop brought together 30 journalists and experts from across the Asean and Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) regions. It was the second in a proposed series of ten workshops held over four years, designed to equip media professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to report on planetary health, providing training in communicating climate-related challenges, navigating misinformation and integrating solutions-based journalism into reporting. What followed was an engaging and impactful few days of learning, unlearning and relearning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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A particularly interesting session that resonated with most of the participants was one led by Jason Lee, a professor at the National University of Singapore\u2019s Heat Resilience and Performance Centre. 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