Rome, Latium, Italy
Dr Nicole de Paula is the author of the book “Breaking the Silos for Planetary Health- a Roadmap for a Resilient Post-Pandemic World” and is currently working as a Technical Officer at the UN Food Systems Coordination Hub, hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome. In 2019, she became the first Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow awardee at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (ASS) in Potsdam, Germany. Her professional trajectory has focused on globally connecting decision makers and the scientific community to foster collective solutions for policies in sustainability, environment and public health. Previously of her work in Germany, she was the director of a think-tank in Bangkok, Thailand, hosted by Mahidol University at the Faculty of Public Health. As a Planetary Health advocate, she champions the socioeconomic advancement of women through environmental conservation and public health policies to make the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a reality by 2030. She is the founder of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health and co-founder of an interdisciplinary research group on Planetary Health at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr Nicole de Paula holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Sciences Po Paris and has been consulting with several international organizations under the UN system on themes related to climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, financial and urban affairs. As a researcher, she has also been the French Embassy fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington D.C. and a fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science as part of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN). For many years, she was a team leader and writer for the reputable Earth Negotiations Bulletin, published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). In 2020, Dr Nicole de Paula successfully concluded the executive course 'Blockchain: Technologies and Applications for Business' at Berkeley Haas School of Business, University of California. She is currently the review editor for the journal Frontiers in Public Health (Planetary Health) and for the Brazilian Journal of International Politics. Currently, she is an advisor to the World Health Organization- South-East Asia Regional Expert Group on Environment Determinants of Health and Climate Change and one of the Scientific Commissioners of The Lancet Pathfinder Commission on decabornization.
We bridge the gaps between environment and health policies through gender-transformative solutions. Our goal is to bridge the inequality gap that still exists related to women's leadership roles while demonstrating the benefits of gender equality for sound environmental and public health solutions. We are convinced that fair gender relations can lead all of us to a cleaner environment, healthier lives, and peace.
Whats is Planetary Health? In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation and the renowned scientific journal The Lancet sponsored the writing and publication of the report entitled “Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Epoch: Report of The Rockefeller Foundation – Lancet Commission on Planetary Health” (Whitmee et al. 2015). In the same year, in an unprecedented joint effort, the World Health Organization and the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity published, with more than a hundred contributors, “Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health: A State of Knowledge Review”. The texts address comprehensively, clearly, and directly the unprecedented impact of humans on ecosystems and the risks that this entails for the survival of human civilization itself. This period in which humanity became the main agent of change on the planet has been called the Anthropocene.