UCSF Center for Oceans & Human Health

The mission of the UCSF Center for Oceans & Human Health is to advance Sustainable Development Goals pertaining to public health [SDG3] and ocean health [SDG14]. Furtherance of these goals is achieved through research, community partnerships, and public education about the vital role of oceans in human health and human activities for a healthy ocean.

UNITED NATIONS OCEAN CONFERENCE

TEAMWORK TO SAVE OUR OCEAN: BENEFITS FOR HUMAN HEALTH & WELL-BEING 

We will be hosting a Green Zone event at the United Nations Ocean Conference (Nice, France) Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 7:45a-9:45a CEST (local time), 10:45p-12:45a PDT. We aim to highlight and learn from successful efforts to support conservation and sustainable use of the oceans (SDG14) that have had demonstrable positive co-benefits for human health and well-being (SDG3) in addition to helping achieve other SDGs. Our event will be held at:

Université Côte d'Azur, Institut Méditerranéen du risque, de l'Environment et du Developpement Durable (IMREDD)
Room 1-170
Technopole Nice Meridia
9 Avenue Julien Laupretre
06 200 Nice

DIRECTIONS

UNOC ►IMREDD (~35-45 mins): From UNOC, walk to Port Lympia (400m), take RED TRAM L3, get out at Méridia, then walk to IMREDD (300m).

IMREDD ► UNOC (~35-45 mins): From IMREDD, walk to Méridia (300m), take RED TRAM L3, get out at Port Lympia, then walk to UNOC (400m).

COSPONSORS

Université Côte d’Azur; European Marine Board; International Atomic Energy Agency; Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions; Norwegian Institute of Marine Research; The University of the West Indies; Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego; The University of Edinburgh; University of Hawaii at Manoa; UNESCO Chair for Ocean Sustainability at the University of São Paolo; University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health; Universiti Malaya; Sulubaii Environmental Foundation; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; SINTEF Ocean AS; Fondation Prince Albert II of Monaco; Centre Scientifique de Monaco; Mirpuri Foundation; University of Plymouth; and Institut de Ciències del Mar.

COLLABORATIONS

We participate as partners in the first Tribally Led Center for Oceans and Human Health funded by the National Institutes of Health (P01ES035551) and the National Science Foundation (2421823). The partners of that work, led by the sovereign Sitka Tribe of Alaska, include: the Kodiak Area Native Association, the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research Consortium, Boston University, the Univeristy of Alaska Southeast, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the University of Virginia, and the University of Pennsylvania, with additional contributors from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the University of California, Irvine, and Oregon Health & Science University.

TEXTBOOK

L. Fleming, L. B. Alcantara Creencia, W. H. Gerwick, H. C. Goh, M. O. Gribble, B. Maycock, & H. Solo-Gabriele (Eds.). (2023) Oceans and Human Health: Opportunities and Impacts (2nd ed.). Academic Press. ISBN: 9780323952279.

SERVICE COLLABORATIONS

High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy; Arctic Monitoring & Assessment Programme; Report of the Expert Meeting on Ciguatera Poisoning; Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Risks and Benefits of Fish Consumption