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Human and Planetary Health: Protecting Health on a Changing Planet

Event Details:

Thursday, April 22, 2021
10:30am - 11:30am PDT

Location

Virtual
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This Earth Day, as part of the Accelerating Climate Solutions series, we’re showcasing human and planetary health and the inextricable link between a healthy planet and healthy human communities. Researchers across Stanford and beyond are asking complex questions about global environmental challenges,their impacts on our health, livelihoods, and wellbeing, and how we might mitigate and adapt to them. In the face of  accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, pollution, resource scarcity, and other challenges, how can we best protect the health of our communities? How can we get at the core of these issues, taking action that simultaneously addresses the wellbeing of humans and the environment? In this event, we’ll present a variety of human and planetary health work at Stanford, highlighting a set of innovative solutions to restore our Earth and improve health outcomes.

  • Welcome by Michele BarrySenior Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Innovation in Global HealthDrs. Ben and A. Jess Shenson Professor of Medicine and Tropical Diseases; and
  • Chris FieldDirector, Woods Institute for the Environment; Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies;
  • Talks by Desiree LaBeaud, Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases); Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment;
  • Kari NadeauDirector, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research; Naddisy Foundation Endowed Professor of Medicine;
  • Susanne SokolowSenior Research Scientist, Woods Institute for the Environment; Executive Director, Program for Disease Ecology, Health and the Environment
  • Britt WrayHuman and Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Woods Institute for the Environment, and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • Moderated by Steve Luby, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute


This event is co-hosted by Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

 

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