Informatics for the Planet: Integrating Species, Ecosystems and Geophysical Data to Manage the Health of Earth Systems

Mission and objectives

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Building from the research focus, the objectives of this workshop are:

1. To build a high-quality program on the emerging challenge of ‘informatics for planetary health’.
2. To explore the urgent need to evolve informatics praxis beyond human healthcare toward Earth’s interconnected systems.
3. To collectively inform a roadmap for transforming fragmented health, environmental, geographical and species data streams into planetary-scale intelligence.

Intended audience

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The target audience is intentionally broad-based and invites participants of all career stages and identities from across health and environmental research, digital public health (practitioners and consumers), policy and technology- with an estimate of 20+ participants. The workshop encourages broad participation through roundtables and in open discussion. The organisers will also endeavour to ensure that the workshop is accessible to wide audiences/attendees at DPH so that there is meaningful representation across disciplines, geographies, sectors and other stakeholder groups.

Expected outcomes

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Participants will gain a new understanding of planetary health informatics (PHI) and relevant frameworks and how these may be applied to their own DPH contexts. Participants will further have an opportunity to shape a roadmap for PHI research during the workshop, and will be encouraged to co-lead/co-author on PHI research relevant to their DPH practice or study which may appear in the special issue on PHI of the JMIR Medical Informatics.

Specifically, the outcomes of this workshop will:

1. Identify key enablers and barriers to integrating clinical, public health, and multispecies data streams into actionable planetary-scale learning health systems.
2. Promote longer-term discussions and knowledge exchange between key global research networks, experts and institutions to develop a planetary health informatics ‘roadmap’.
3. Share and promote practical tools, research resources, and user centred methods across interdisciplinary networks to advance the methodological, technical, and architectural foundations of health informatics to address planetary health challenge.

Format and schedule

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Duration	Session	Description
10 min	Welcome and Opening Remarks	Welcome speakers and participants and Workshop overview.
30 min	PHI Panel	Introduction to the PHI idea and panel of short papers that address how public health informatics can transcend the historical human-centricity of the discipline and bring information systems thinking to bear on the complex, interconnected health challenges of the Anthropocene.
30 min	Concurrent World Café. Sessions on PHI Themes	Participants will have an opportunity to discuss and reflect on how their research/ professional work relates to four overarching themes in a world café roadmap roundtable. The four themes represented are: o Clinical-Environmental Data Integration and Interoperability; o Surveillance, Biosecurity, and Metagenomic Informatics; o Sustainable Health Systems and Green Digital Health; o Patient-Clinician Interactions and Sociotechnical Evaluations. Each theme is assigned to a table and a facilitator, and participants can self- select which table they would like to join. Each café session is 12 minutes in duration. Following the first session, participants can join another themed table. There will be two x 12-minute sessions in total. A summary of roadmap takeaways will follow this session.
20 min	Workshop Final Round Table and RoadMap Wrap-up	World café chairs will summarise emerging themes with participant feedback and highlight key points to inform a PHI roadmap and next steps.

Speakers

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