Artist’s view of a black hole–neutron star merger. Credit: Carl Knox OzGrav–Swinburne University The ad astra vita project has a YouTube channel with several playlists and a wide variety of videos. These include the “Meet an Expert” series from the University of Melbourne’s new ‘space health’ subject from 2022 onwards, the 2023 International Humans in Space Summit , and the 2020 Space Health Symposium . There are also playlists on space medicine and life sciences, human reproduction in space, and climate and environmental science.
Human Health in the Space Environment – “Meet an Expert” sessions
Dr Lisa Brown: A Surgeon’s Journey in Aerospace Medicine
Dr Mark Ott: Microbiology of Human Spacecraft Environments
Dr Mark Melin – ‘Emerging physiological explanations for maladaptations associated with weightlessness’
Renuka Rambhatla – ‘Spacesuit designs and human protection in extreme environments’
Kristine Atienza – Space nutrition overview
Dr Michael Hodapp – ‘Oral health considerations for spaceflight’
Dr Rowena Christiansen – ‘Skin microbiome changes during spaceflight: A lightning review’
Dr Scott Smith – ‘NASA Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory’
Professor Jon French – ‘Space dangers’
Dr Mark Melin – ‘Emerging physiological explanations for maladaptations associated with weightlessness’
Professor Bruce Thompson – ‘Space lung research: where to next?’
Professor Julie Hides – ‘What do astronauts, low back pain sufferers & elite athletes have in common?’
Dr Mallika Sarma – ‘Stress at the extremes – spaceflight and beyond’
A ‘fireside chat’ with Dr Mark Rosenberg
Professor Kim Prisk: ‘Taking your lungs to the Moon, and maybe Mars’
Kristine Atienza: ‘The Role of Nutrition in Human Space Flight’
Dr Rowena Christiansen: ‘Human reproduction in space – challenges and conundrums’
Professor Jon French – ‘Space dangers’
Dr M Mark Melin – ‘Fluid shifts in weightlessness & potential “spinoffs” to terrestrial patient care’
Professor George Pantalos: ‘Adventures of a cardiovascular explorer – with and without gravity’
International Humans in Space Summit 2023
IHS 2023 – Panel 1: What training might be needed to administer anaesthesia in space?
IHS 2023 – Panel 2: Medical considerations for commercial low Earth orbit
IHS 2023 – Panel 3: Space Implications of UAV Use In Delivery of Health Care in Remote Regions
IHS 2023- Session 4: Professor George Pantalos – Suborbital Flight – Stepping Stone to Space
IHS 2023 – Panel 5: Jus Ad Astra – The gravity of health and human rights in space
IHS 2023 – Panel 6: Mars Society Australia
Space Health Symposium 2020
Space Health Symposium Space Surgery Panel Session (Monday October 5, 2020)
Space Health Symposium, Day 1, Session 3a: “How to live on the Moon and Mars” (Mon October 5, 2020)
Space Health Symposium, Day 1, Session 3b: “How to live on the Moon and Mars” Workshop (Oct 5, 2020)
Space Health Symposium, Day 1, Session 4 “How to live on the Moon and Mars” (Monday October 5, 2020)
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