Health & Wellbeing

Innovating for Impact: Transforming Healthcare in Underserved Communities

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Operation Smile explores how artificial intelligence is being used to transform care for children born with cleft conditions.

Love’s Labour: Stephen Grosz on What Makes Relationships Work

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Through stories from the therapy room, Stephen Grosz invites us to reflect on the emotional work behind real human connection.

The Care Economy: Tim Jackson in Conversation with Kate Raworth

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Ecological economists Tim Jackson and Kate Raworth on building a healthier and more humane society.

Thirst: In Search of Freshwater

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Wellcome Collection presents Thirst: In Search of Freshwater, a free major exhibition exploring humanity’s vital connection with freshwater as an essential source of life and a pillar of good health for both living beings and land masses.

Ensuring Sustainable Food Security

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Climate change is disrupting agriculture, worsening food insecurity, and deepening health disparities linked to food insecurity — especially in vulnerable communities. This session explores how food innovation, and equitable access strategies can build more resilient food systems. From local supply chains to alternative proteins, we’ll spotlight solutions that connect climate action to better health outcomes and food justice.

Tackling the Health Crisis of Air Pollution

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Rising temperatures, wildfires, and industrial emissions are having a devastating impact on air quality. As this pollution drives a rise in respiratory diseases, cardiovascular conditions, and premature deaths, this session investigates how the healthcare sector can respond.

Protecting Mental Health in a Climate Crisis

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The mental health impacts of climate change are vast but often overlooked. Alongside the physical risks – wildfires, hurricanes, rising sea levels, and extreme heat – communities on the frontlines face deep emotional and psychological strain, and younger generations grapple with eco-anxiety and feelings of helplessness about the future.

Five innovative ideas from our Climate and the Future of Health convening

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From a bold race to develop vaccines in just 100 days to city murals that cool neighborhoods, The Conduit's convening on Climate and the Future of Health spotlighted groundbreaking ideas reshaping how we prepare for pandemics, combat extreme heat, and reimagine urban resilience

Elif Shafak: The Forty Rules of Love

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We welcome the award-winning British-Turkish author back to The Conduit to celebrate the reissue of her 2009 novel, The Forty Rules of Love.