Good Health and Well-Being

Walter Leal Filho (BSc, PhD, DSc, DPhil, DEd, DL, DLitt) is a Senior Professor and Head of the Research and Transfer Centre "Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and Chair of Environment and Technology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is the initiator of the Word Sustainable Development Symposia (WSSD-U) series, and chairs the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. Professor Leal Filho has written, co-written, edited or co-edited more than 400 publications, including books, book chapters and papers in refereed journals.Tony Wall (BSc Hons, PGDip, PGCHE, MA, MSc, EdD, MCIPD, NTFHEA) is a Professor, Founder and Director of the International Thriving at Work Research Group in the United Kingdom where he is the institutional lead for the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme. His research impact work has won multiple Santander International Research Excellence Awards and a National Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy. Apart from being a visiting scholar in the US and Australia, his change work includes co-founding of the Washington Ethical Leadership Summit and the TS Eliot Foundation’s International Creative Practice for Wellbeing Framework.Anabela Marisa Azul is a Researcher at the Center for Neuroscience andCell Biology (CNC) and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of theUniversity of Coimbra (UC, Portugal). She holds a Ph.D. in BiologicalSciences, specializing in Ecology (2002, UC), and pursued her investigationon biology and ecology of fungi to pinpoint the role of mycorrhizal symbiosisfor sustainability of Mediterranean forests under different land use scenarios atthe Centre for Functional Ecology (CFE-UC), where she became an AssociateResearcher (from 2009to 2014). At CFE-UC, Marisa Azul developed aholistic approach that combined innovation in food production with sustainabledevelopment and public scientific awareness to multiple actors. At CNC,from 2014 on, Marisa Azul focuses her investigation on basic researchand participatory research dynamics to pinpoint links between metabolism,health/disease, and sustainability. She has broad academic experience as aresearcher working in participatory research and interdisciplinary that linkbiomedical and life/environmental sciences, social sciences, science education, science communication, and artistic forms. Her research interestsalso lie in bringing together the academy and social/economical players. Shehas been successful in attracting national and international funding, coordinatingprojects, and mentoring young researchers on the topics mentioned. Shehas co-authoredover 40 scientific publications and book chapters, co-edited4 books on Climate Change Management Series and 1 onWorld SustainabilitySeries published by Springer, co-authored 4 books for children and 2 comics,and co-produced 1 animation.Luciana Brandli, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the University of PassoFundo, Brazil, working in the Ph.D. Program in Civil and EnvironmentEngineering. Her current research interests include sustainability in highereducation and green campus, management of urban infrastructure and sustainablecities, and the Agenda 2030 for sustainable development. She supervises anumber of Master’s and Doctoral students on engineering and environmentand sustainability issues and has in excess of 300 publications, includingbooks, book chapters, and papers in refereed journals.Pinar Gökçin Özuyar is a Faculty Member of Faculty of Economics,Administrative and Social Sciences at Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey.She received her B.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from IstanbulTechnical University in 1992 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from BogaziciUniversity Institute of Environmental Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey. Her Ph.D. thesis was based on the “Thermodynamic Analysis of Treatment Plants forProducing Energy from SolidWaste” which she conducted in Germany with ajoint scholarship from Forschungzentrum Jülich and TUBITAK (NationalScience Foundation of Turkey).Defining herself as a pracademic, she has more than 25 years of experiencenot only in academia but also in the private sector working on environment andsector-specific activities in Turkey and Dubai (UAE). She has extensiveexpertise specifically in environmental auditing according to World BankStandards which is required for international financing especially duringcompany mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and greenfield projects. Workingover the years in projects involving different stakeholder groups with differentpriorities, she has the proven capacity for establishing a dialogue between suchstakeholder groups. Although coming from a technical background, her academicwork focuses on involving sustainable development into the strategiesof corporations including higher academic institutions. Currently, she teachesand leads funded research on sustainability/sustainable development especiallyfocusing on industrial ecology and regional development.

• Reduction of global maternity mortality.- Prevention of deaths of newborns and children.- End of epidemics like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases.- Combat hepatitis, water-borne diseases.- Reduction of premature mortality.- Prevention and treatment of substance abuse.- Reduction of global deaths and injuries from road traffic accidents.- Access to reproductive health-care services, for family planning.- Affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all.- Reduction of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution.- Implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.- Health financing and training  of health workforce in developing countries.- Early warning, risk reduction and management of national and global health risks in developing countries.