Prof. Gerard Bodeker

Gerard Bodeker is a Harvard-trained public health academic whose work spans integrative medicine, wellness and the relationship between human health and the world around us.

He taught medical sciences at Oxford University for two decades, is Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University and advises business, governments and the United Nations. He is also Founding Chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s Mental Wellness Initiative and Co-Chair of its Microplastics Watch Initiative.

At TEDxBukit Bintang, Gerard brings a public-health perspective to a familiar environmental concern.

He enters a question that science is still working to understand, and that society may need to consider sooner than expected.