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On November 14, 2024, Peking University hosted the "Beijing Forum 2024" Global Roundtable, focusing on the Planetary Health Axis System (PHAS). By integrating human, animal, and ecological data, a global platform was established to address climate and health challenges. Institutions and scholars from multiple countries called for cross-border collaboration, policy coordination, and data sharing, and released the PHAS pre-research framework. The closing ceremony summarized the achievements with the themes of "vision, diversity, integrity, and cooperation", promoting sustainable development practices. For details, please refer to the link 

Two important achievements were released on the spot at the conference. One of them is the release of the "Planetary Health Coordinate System" (PHAS) by the Institute for Global Health and Development, which takes human, animal and environmental (natural and social) health as the core and establishes a multi-dimensional dynamic tracking framework. Under the constraints of planetary boundaries, the system uses global public data to assess the health performance, efficiency and potential of various countries and the world at large, and presents the development footprint in a visual way, providing quantitative references for relevant decisions and policies, and promoting humanity towards a more sustainable and prosperous development path. For details, please refer to the link 

On March 14, 2025, Nick Watts, a professor at the National University of Singapore and a renowned scholar in the field of global health and sustainable development, was invited to visit the Institute for Global Health Development (Quanjian Institute) of Peking University. In-depth exchanges were conducted around the advancement of the "Planetary Health Axis System- PHAS" project and its international cooperation. For details, please refer to the link 

The annual World Health Summit is the leading platform for a global dialogue on Health. Planetary Health and digital innovation will be core priorities of this year’s Summit in October 2025. WHS showed great interest in the work of PHAS, after having included first international presentation of PHAS at its Summit in 2024. WHS very much understands the innovative approach, opportunities and challenges of PHAS as a big data and AI driven analytical tool. For details, please refer to the link 

The PIK is one of the world leading institutions on Climate Change. Groundbreaking research has been published by experts working at PIK, and many of the global climate debates and political declarations and targets build on work done by PIK. There was agreement that big data approaches offer significant opportunities to analyze and contribute to better understanding of complex and interrelated fields of science. At the same time, there is a need to better understand the risks and opportunities. For details, please refer to the link 

Prof. Andy Haines, and the teams at LSHTM, have been at the forefront of Planetary Health thinking and science over the last decades, even before the term of ‘Planetary Health’ was formed. There was a lively discussion around the innovation opportunities with tools such as PHAS. It seems clear, that big data approaches and AI supported learning systems may offer unique opportunities to better understand the very complex interactions between the multiple sectors and variables. For details, please refer to the link 

The Planetary Health Axis System (PHAS) initiative, launched by Peking University, is now an official organizational member of the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA). The PHA is a global consortium comprising over 480 universities, research institutes, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations from more than 75 countries. It is committed to advancing the field of planetary health, an interdisciplinary and solutions-oriented discipline focused on understanding and addressing the health impacts of human disruptions to Earth’s natural systems. For details, please refer to the link