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Speaker:  Dr Renzo Guinto (Institute of Tropical Medicine) and Professor Kenji Shibuya (King's College London) In recent years, planetary health has evolved not just as an emerging field of scientific inquiry but also as a novel policy framework, fresh ethical paradigm, and renewed basis for collective action that integrates both the health of people and the planet. Over the past century, human activities have grown economies, improved health, and enhanced the quality of life – at the expense of the world’s natural resources. Today, global environmental change – not just in the form of climate change but also biodiversity loss, ocean acidification, and other ecosystem alterations – is threatening the health of future generations in return. These issues at the nexus of human health and the environment present new challenges for governance at all levels – local, national, regional, and global. Unfortunately, today’s governance institutions – from global health organizations to national health ministries – are hugely incompatible with the nature, magnitude, and scale of these contemporary planetary health problems. In this seminar, Dr Renzo Guinto will share his perspectives about this new exciting field of planetary health. He will also pose pressing questions and offer initial proposals for the future of planetary health governance in the 21st century. *If you are external to King's, please contact the event organiser to let them know you are coming. About Dr Renzo Guinto A Filipino physician working at the nexus of global health and sustainable development, Dr Renzo Guinto is the Chief Planetary Doctor of PH Lab – a ‘glo-cal think-and-do tank’ for advancing the health of both people and the planet. One of the staunchest, most exciting, and innovative voices for planetary health from the Global South, Renzo is the youngest and sole student member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Lancet Planetary Health, the world’s first planetary health journal, and a founding member of the Emerging Scholars Network of the Planetary Health Alliance, which is headquartered at Harvard University. Renzo recently finished his Doctor of Public Health degree at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. For his doctoral thesis, Renzo investigated local health system responses to climate change in coastal municipalities in the Philippines. From September to December 2019 he joins the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium as a Visiting Fellow, focusing on the political economy of planetary health and the decolonization of global health. A global health ‘deep generalist,’ Renzo brings with him nearly a decade of experience in global health policy, research, advocacy, implementation, and innovation at local, national, regional, and international levels, covering the public and private sectors as well as civil society and the United Nations system, and spanning a diverse range of themes such as climate change, planetary health, universal health care, migrant health, global health security, noncommunicable diseases, global health governance and diplomacy, healthcare innovation, social determinants of health, among others. Previously, he worked for the Philippine Department of Health, International Organization for Migration, World Health Organization, World Bank, Health Care Without Harm, UP Manila Universal Health Care Study Group and Harvard Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment. He received numerous prestigious fellowships including the New Voices Fellowship of the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC and the Emerging Voices for Global Health in Cape Town, South Africa. Renzo obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of the Philippines Manila (under the accelerated INTARMED programme), and received additional training from the University of Oxford, Copenhagen School of Global Health, University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and East-West Center in Hawaii. Renzo has traveled to and lectured in nearly 50 countries; published more than 50 articles in scientific journals, books, and popular media; and directed and produced short films that communicate the message of planetary healing to the world. About Professor Kenji Shibuya Professor Kenji Shibuya is currently Professor and Director, University Institute for Population Health at King’s College London. His expertise ranges across important topics in health metrics and evaluation; global burden of disease and risk factor analysis; health financing and cost-effectiveness; health system performance; health financing with an emphasis on universal health coverage; and product and system innovations; public-private partnerships; and R&D strategies. His global policy vision, with an emphasis on local ownership, performance, partnership and innovation has become the core of the new global health strategy of the Japanese government.  Kenji has been an advisor to both central and local governments, and most recently he was appointed as Special Advisor to the Director-General of the World Health Organization on health metrics and data. He spearheaded the future strategic directions of the Japanese global health policy agenda after the Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit in 2008. He led the Lancet Series on Japan, published in 2011 in an effort to jump-start debates on Japanese domestic and global health policy reform. In 2015, he chaired the landmark Advisory Panel on Health Care 2035 for the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. He obtained his MD at the University of Tokyo in 1991 and earned a doctorate of public health in international health economics at Harvard University in 1999.

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Panel: led by Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Dr Nahee Kang (King's College London) Patient capital holds great allure as a crucial ingredient for economic development, as well as sustaining economic growth. In the context of the German hausbank, through dense relationships which afforded excellent access to information in order to underwrite risk effectively, the form of finance was crucial to the nation’s post-war recovery. Comparative political economy scholarship, particularly work on the 'varieties of capitalism' has pinned patient capital as an attribute of one type of capitalist system – the long-term credit associated with coordinated market economies. Despite the allure of patient capital in practice (eg the British Business Bank’s Patient Capital Fund) and the penchant for engagement with patient capital by political economy scholars, the concept remains under conceptualised, and, as a result, difficult to identify in empirical contexts. In this session, panelists will draw on their emerging political economy research to conceptualise its key attributes and identify it in empirical contexts. *If you are external to King's, please contact the event organiser to let them know you are coming. Organisers: Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra and Dr Nahee Kang (Political Economy & Institutions research group, King's College London) Workshop details This public panel discussion is part of a half-day workshop on ‘Patient capital in emerging economies’ (workshop from 10:00-15:00, same day). For more information on the workshop, contact Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra. In this workshop, we strive to extend and interrogate such work by identifying the attributes of patient capital, as well as empirical examples of it, with an emphasis on its application in contemporary emerging economies. In doing so, we bring richer analytical tools for identifying patient capital given varying contexts, and we also contribute to the broader conceptualisation by going beyond time horizon as the defining characteristic. We extend conceptual work on patient capital from the 2016 issue of Socio-Economic Review that asked, “where is patient capital and who supplies it?”. However, we strive to offer richer characterisation than the focus on time horizon, and to go beyond analysis in the European context. Papers will lend to the conceptual work by offering empirical insights into the (developmental) state as a patient capitalist, while others will explore how and to what extent firms extend forms of patient capital.

Part of Autumn Term Seminar Series, all are welcome to attend.