Ms Janice Ho, former CCOUC member and current CUHK PhD student, was awarded a travel scholarship for the upcoming Inaugural Planetary Health/Geohealth Annual Meeting, hosted by The Planetary Health Alliance along with the American Geophysical Union, the Ecological Society of America, and The Lancet, in Boston, Massachusetts on 28-30 April 2017. The competitively awarded scholarship provides funding for transportation and conference registration to support students and early career investigators. This event promises to be an exciting gathering and engaging discussion of the human health impacts of global environmental change, and the emerging field of planetary health.