Dr. Munzur E-Murshid Climate change is having a significant impact on the health and well-being of people in Bangladesh, and this includes the menstrual health of women and girls. The country is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change due to its low-lying geography, which puts it at risk…

Seemab Mehmood, PHCA 2022 The journey begins with 20+ hours of travel from Lahore to Doha and finally to the destination city, Boston. It was quite exhausting. But I must say the invaluable experience waiting for me there was worth it. It goes back to 2021 when I attended the…

Luca Martinalli In 2017, Sam Myers, Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, stated during the Academy of Medical Sciences & The Lancet International Health Lecture: “Our house is on fire. Natural systems are starting to crumble around us, along with the climate system, our oceans, our terrestrial ecosystems, and the…

NOT A FRUITLESS EXPERIENCE Yinmi Gabriel Oladeji Although I had attended many professional meetings and conferences virtually, the Planetary Health Annual Meeting (PHAM) 2022 which was held at Harvard Medical School, Boston MA was the first international professional meeting I attended in person. So, my hopes were really high. I…

Jennifer Cole, PhD European Hub Travel Scholar Being chosen as a PHAM2022 Travel Scholar threw open an ethical dilemma typical of the Anthropocene and Planetary Health — the environmental damage of a long-haul, international flight weighted against the infinitely more social and effective experience of meeting, planning, discussing, debating and…

By: Hannah Marcus Beginning December 7, 2022, Canada will be hosting the largest biodiversity conference in the world, with much at stake for advancing the global agenda on planetary health. Thousands of people will converge in Montreal for the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention…

Claire Remington Director of Research and Innovation Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) I am the Director of Research and Innovation at the organization SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods) in Haiti that provides a household sanitation service in Cap-Haitien, Haiti. Before starting in my position at SOIL, I did my master’s…

Ben Delbaere, RN, MSc If you are one of those people who thinks that a little stress doesn’t hurt anyone, you’re wrong. Abundant research has pointed at associations between stress and both poor mental health and poor physical health (Ewing, Schmid, Killingsworth, Zlot, & Raudenbush, 2003; Shi, Lien, Kumar, &…

Salia S. Sheriff, Joanna Wagner Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, College of Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (COSTEC), University of Liberia. Email: sheriffsalia@gmail.com Abstract Planetary Health endeavors to broaden humanity’s understanding of the link between human health and the planet’s natural systems. However, many people have yet to understand…