With support from Burroughs Wellcome Fund, we welcome you to a workshop to spotlight applications of thinking about consciousness and connections between beings to improve healthcare, including possibilities for ecological medicine. We hope to develop a learning network that includes both communication professionals who regularly generate content about health and healthcare as well as emerging experts on ecological medicine initiatives in health care.

Session topics

Times are TBD

•  Applying ecology, connections between beings, and consciousness to medicine and health care
• Frontiers in consciousness research  
• Inspiration from Indigenous thinking about nature and health
• Connecting people and animals for therapy
• On humility in understanding humanity’s place in the world      
• Discussion: How to best support science communicators (including potential collaboration with SciLine, future workshops and meetings, and development of a hub for communicators)
• Panel: Leadership in consciousness and ecology applications in the Carolinas

Confirmed speakers (virtual and in-person):

Matthew Browning, Clemson U

Margaret Gruen, NC State U

Michael Kaufmann, Green Chimneys

Christof Koch, Allen Institute & Tiny Blue Dot Foundation

Michael Makhinson, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Lou Muglia, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Charles Nunn, Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine

Philip Tedeschi, U Denver

Landon Pollack, Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Tawni Tidwell, U Wisconsin

Karen Waconda, Bess Family Foundation

Christine Webb, NYU

Vanessa Woods, Duke University