The Planetary Health South & Southeast Asia Regional Hub serves as a nexus point for coordinating Planetary Health programs, initiatives, and projects across the region. The Hub serves as a central coordinating body that helps facilitate Regional collaboration, capacity building, and policy support.
This collaborative action plan between Ipoh City Council, Institut Darul Ridzuan and Sunway Centre for Planetary Health unites policy makers and community leaders to transform Ipoh into Asia's pioneer regenerative city within social and ecological boundaries.
The Sunway Centre for Planetary Health strengthens media capacity through workshops (2025–2028), enhancing engagement, trust, and knowledge for planetary health reporting in the Asia-Pacific.
The Hub is actively working on developing and implementing new initiatives to advance Planetary Health in South & Southeast Asia. Come back in the future to learn about new projects!
Applications are OPEN for the Global Tipping Points Conference 2026 Youth Ambassador Programme! This is the first #GTP2026 to be held in Asia, and we're bringing youth voices straight to the table on the conversations shaping our planet's future.
Global Tipping Points Conference 2026 |12–15 October 2026 |Sunway University, Malaysia | Open to Malaysian and Southeast Asian students aged 30 and below! Deadline: 26 August 2026.
No stressful interviews here! Selection is based purely on your application + a short video telling us why YOU want to be a GTP 2026 Youth Ambassador!
BONUS: Youth ambassadors will get the privilege to join our virtual GHGAPS (Global Health Governance as Public Service) Training Programme in September 2026, levelling up your skills in diplomacy, policy-making & planetary health!
From 12–15 October 2026, Sunway University will host the Global Tipping Points Conference 2026 (#GTP2026) — the first to be held in Asia. Across four days, one argument builds: shared understanding, the human conditions for change, the finance and law that make it irreversible, and action in the region's own cities. Bringing together scientists, policymakers, financiers, faith leaders, business leaders, civil society, artists and youth, the conference will explore how positive tipping points can accelerate transformative change for people and planets. Co-organised by the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, University of Exeter, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) | 12–15 October 2026 | Sunway University, Malaysia | Early-bird registration ends 31 July 2026. Register now to secure your place.
Apply now: ‘Transition towards Planetary Health’ Knowledge-in-Action grant
The ‘Transition towards Planetary Health’ Knowledge-in-Action Grant is a funding opportunity by the Climate Change Initiative Netherlands (KIN) that supports projects working towards a healthier and more sustainable relationship between humans and the planet. The grant focuses on the concept of planetary health, which recognises that human health depends heavily on the condition of natural systems, including climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, and food systems. With this call for proposals, KIN invites you to explore, through co-creation and a learning-by-doing approach, what ‘planetary health’ might look like in daily practice. Researchers and practitioners can jointly submit an application for up to €50,000 per project by September 22, 2026 (2:00 p.m. CET).
Halton Foundation Grant (Indoor Environmental Quality Research Grant)
The Halton Foundation Grant is an international research funding opportunity that supports projects focused on improving indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and its impact on human health and wellbeing. The grant is established by the Halton Foundation, a charitable organisation that aims to improve the conditions of indoor environments through research and innovation. Grants are awarded annually to non-profit organizations researching indoor environmental quality and human wellbeing. Applications open July 1st to September 1st each year.
The Earth Journalism Network (EJN), an environmental journalism initiative by Internews, provides reporting grants to journalists across Asian ape-range countries to support in-depth storytelling on conservation challenges affecting orangutans, gibbons, and other endangered ape species. The grant programme aims to strengthen environmental reporting by supporting journalists in producing evidence-based stories that highlight threats to ape populations, conservation strategies, habitat protection efforts, and the relationship between biodiversity loss and human activities.
2027 RISK Award: “Homes at Risk: Climate Resilience for Informal Settlements”
The RISK Award is a global disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation funding initiative jointly organised by the Munich Re Foundation and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). The 2027 edition focuses on strengthening climate resilience among vulnerable communities living in informal settlements, addressing increasing risks associated with extreme heat, flooding, storms, and other climate-related hazards. The award supports practical, community-based interventions that reduce disaster risks and improve adaptation capacity, making it highly relevant to planetary health approaches that connect environmental change, human wellbeing, and social vulnerability.
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Forest Learning Centre, Perdana Botanical Gardens, Malaysia
A Climate Courage Gathering: Jiwa Bumi
Jiwa Bumi: A Climate Courage Collective
We're gathering on the 25th for Jiwa Bumi's kick-off, a space to reconnect, collaborate, and grow a movement advocating for mental health to be recognised in Malaysia’s national climate policies. Join us with our friends at the Forest Learning Centre, a space for appreciating our natural heritage and environmental education just beside the canopies of the Perdana Botanical Gardens in downtown KL! No prior experience needed. Just heart, soul and commitment to humanity in making mental health services and supporting a basic human right. Open to all Malaysians as long as you’ve experienced and had enough of existential dread, anxiety and distress from our changing climate. Tell your friends!
Global Tipping Points Conference 2026: Abstracts Submission
Building on the transformative insights of the Global Tipping Points Report 2025, this conference accelerates scientific understanding of critical thresholds that will determine our collective future. GTP 2026 focuses on Understanding the Shift, Igniting Imagination, and Accelerating Action across planetary boundaries.
We invite submissions advancing scientific understanding across Earth System Science, Technology and AI, Governance, Finance and Business, Faith and Culture, Communications, Nature-based Solutions, and Health. Topics focusing on Asian contexts where solutions are emerging at scale are particularly encouraged.
Join us to explore innovative approaches to conserving biodiversity and protecting wildlife, highlighting regional efforts that bridge science, policy, and community action for a more sustainable and harmonious planet.
Regional Funding Call 2025: Closing the Gaps in Climate Change and Health Research in South and Southeast Asia
Monash University Malaysia, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, and The Maldives National University
The Regional Hub for Asia Climate Change and Health invites researchers in South and Southeast Asia to apply for funding to strengthen regional collaboration and advance evidence-based solutions to climate-related health challenges.
Apply for our Planetary Health Campus Ambassador Program formally recognizing Next Generation leaders in Planetary Health on academic campuses and within the global community. The Planetary Health Alliance is seeking 50 university students worldwide to take on leadership roles on their campuses and beyond.
Road to COP 30: Elevating Health in Southeast Asia’s Climate Ambition
This online dialogue, hosted by Health Care Without Harm Southeast Asia with Sunway Centre for Planetary Health and CANSEA, will spotlight how Southeast Asian countries are integrating health into climate commitments. Through country sharing, panel discussions, and facility-level insights, the event seeks to elevate health as a central pillar of regional climate ambition ahead of COP30 in Belém, Brazil
Crossroads in Global Health: Rising Temperatures, Rising Stress – Expanding Mental Health Access in Climate Emergencies
Please join Project HOPE for our next global health webinar. In this session, we will learn how we can better support those deeply impacted by the climate crisis, hear from experts and frontline workers as they discuss the challenges in accessing Mental Heath and Psychosocial Support faced by communities in climate vulnerable environments, share effective strategies for fostering resilience, and highlight ways organizations and policymakers can prioritize mental well-being in the face of climate disasters.
Register here to join us!
