Dr. Angie Bone talks on “Planetary Health Economics in Sustainable Value Creation”

Dr. Angie Bone leads the Environment and Health strategic domain as Associate Professor of Practice in Planetary Health at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) at Monash University.

Having just returned from Azerbaijan from the UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29), she shares her career reflections of her first visit to Azerbaijan many years earlier as a practicing doctor. She recounts feeling helpless while managing tuberculosis in patients where conventional medicine and antibiotics offered no benefits, an experience that taught her that even medicine has its limits.

She says that she now recognises the impacts that the environments we live, work, and play in can have on our health, and offers insightful commentary into the interdependence of human health and our environment. She unpacks the definitions and concepts of planetary health and the planetary boundaries, many of which we have already transgressed, and explains how the impact on ‘human health’ can be the anchoring factor that gives relevance and meaning to these concepts for a broader audience. She then champions the importance of taking an interdisciplinary approach to tackling these climate and health crises.

In her talk she focuses on system transformation for health sector resilience and sustainability, and planetary health. These are areas very much of concern to management accountants who champion ‘Sustainable Value Creation’ in the allocation of scarce resources in meeting the twin challenges of sustaining lives and livelihoods, and the accountability issues that surface in crisis scenarios.

The talk was given when Dr. Bone was inducted to the Social Purpose Innovator to the Hall of Fame for her impact on taking an innovative multi-disciplinary approach to planetary health and economics:

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