One Planet, One Health Kate Pickett, Jean-François Soussana and Barbara Stiegler - chaired by Mike Holmes

Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Health Sciences and until recently held the title of Research Champion for Justice and Equality at the University of York. She trained in biological anthropology at Cambridge, nutritional sciences at Cornell and epidemiology at UC-Berkeley. Kate was an UK NIHR Career Scientist from 2007-12, is a Fellow of the RSA and a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of The Inner Level and The Spirit Level, which was chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman, was awarded Publication of the Year by the Political Studies Association and has been translated into 23 languages. She is a co-founder and trustee of The Equality Trust.

Barbara Stiegler is an associate professor of political philosophy and the director of the Soin, éthique et santé ('Care, Ethics, and Health') masters program at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne. She is also a member of the Institut universitaire de France, a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that honors professors for their research excellence. Stiegler is a specialist in German philosophy and has authored three books: Nietzsche et la biologie (Presses universitaires de France, 2001), Nietzsche et la critique de la chair (Presses universitaires de France, 2005) and 'Il faut s'adapter': Sur un nouvel impératif politique (Gallimard, 2019) / Adapt!: On a New Political Imperative, with Adam Hocker (Fordham University Press, 2022). 

Jean-François Soussana is Vice-Chair for international of INRA, which became INRAE as of January 2020 (French National Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Food, www.inrae.fr), after being Scientific Director for Environment since 2010. He contributes to scientific expertise for FAO (e.g., State of Food and Agriculture, 2016) and is a member of the Science Group of the UN Secretary General Food Systems Summit held in 2021. He coordinates national and European (EC FP5, FP7 and H2020) research projects on climate change, soils and agriculture. He co-chairs the Integrative Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases and the Steering Council of AgMIP, an international modeling program on climate change impacts on agriculture. Dr. Soussana is member of the Climate High Level Council reporting to the French Prime Minister, member of the governing boards of the Joint Programing Initiative on agriculture, food security and climate change (FACCE JPI, 22 countries) and of the Mission Board of the EC on soil health and food. He is also a member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the initiative ‘4 per 1000. Soils for Food Security and Climate’. Dr. Soussana was a highly cited researcher (Clarivate Analytics, 2018). He has published over 180 refereed research papers in international journals, cited close to 25,000 times (Google Scholar), as well as two books and a dozen of book chapters. He was awarded a shared Nobel Prize for Peace (2007) (with all Lead Authors of IPCC AR4), the French civil merit for Agriculture (knight 2009, commander 2017), the Légion d'Honneur (knight, 2020) and the gold medal of the French academy for agriculture (2011).

Professor Mike Holmes has been a GP Partner at Haxby Group for 20 years; a large practice caring for almost 100,000 patients across York, Hull and Scarborough. He has led the development of and now is the Chair at Nimbuscare Ltd - a GP Led provider organisation, bringing together all GP practices in the city of York, caring for a population of 250,000 people. Nimbuscare delivers a wide range of services on a citywide footprint. During the COVID-19 pandemic Nimbuscare provided both a Local and a National Vaccination Centre on a collocated site in York, delivering over 600,000 vaccinations over a 12-month period. Mike is currently the Chair of the Trustee Board at the Royal College of General Practitioners, having previously been a Vice Chair of the College Council (2018-21). He contributed to the NHS Health and Wellbeing offer for Primary Care during the Pandemic and now Chairs the national steering group for the ‘looking after you too’ range of offers. He holds a number of other roles: he is an Honorary Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, a Trustee at St Leonard’s Hospice in York, and Chair of the Faculty of Advanced Clinical Practitioners and Physician Associates in the Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System.