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A New Deal for Planetary Health - Saving the Planet to Save Ourselves

A Security & Sustainability Forum Webinar

Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 4:00pm EDT
Webinars

Join Island Press and the Security and Sustainability Forum in an insightful discussion about the potential for A New Deal for Planetary Health. Building on the new Island Press publication, Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves. Explore planetary health thinking to reimagine food, energy, placemaking, and the economy in ways that can lead to a convergence of human wellbeing and the protection of natural systems. Panelists will focus on infectious diseases, migration, and impacts in cities. 

Participants

Howard Frumkin | An Island Press author

Howard Frumkin

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land, and professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, where he was Dean from 2010-2016.  He was previously head of Our Planet, Our Health at the Wellcome Trust, director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health, and Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory Univ

Samuel Myers | An Island Press Author

Samuel Myers

Sam Myers works at the intersection of human health and global environmental change. He received his BA from Harvard College, his MD from Yale Medical School, performed his residency in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and received his MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a Principal Research Scientist, Planetary Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Planetary Health Alliance.