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BUILDING MOMENTUM

Planetary Health Alliance 2025 Mid-Year Report

Capturing six months of remarkable growth during our 10th Anniversary year—from 500+ member organizations worldwide to our new UNDP partnership and record PHAM participation. This report is just a preview of the Alliance’s growing capacity to catalyze the systemic changes necessary for a thriving planet and flourishing communities everywhere.

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Summary

The Planetary Health Alliance is now connected across 80+ countries with a mobilized community of 500+ member organizations, each amplifying Planetary Health principles within their own spheres of influence. The numbers in this report tell a story of a global movement gaining momentum at precisely the moment when humanity’s relationship with Earth demands transformation.

Through strategic partnerships with the United Nations Development Programme, leading academic centers, and nongovernmental organizations worldwide, PHA has positioned Planetary Health at the intersection of research, policy, practice, and hope. Our educational initiatives now reach schools around the world, while our 10th Anniversary campaign has sparked storytelling from organizations eager to share their vision for the next decade.

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Through systematic educational integration, strategic policy partnerships, and community mobilization, we’re building a future in which life on Earth advances together. The organizations in our network are agents of transformation within their communities, disciplines, and regions. Their adoption of Planetary Health principles creates ripple effects extending far beyond our direct reach.

Our 10th Anniversary campaign is stimulating reflection on achievements while focusing energy on the challenges ahead. All of the dimensions of health demand awareness and action, research and implementation, individual behavior change and systems transformation. We are an alliance that is ready to continue building community, advancing excellence, influencing policy, and innovating in communications – across every sector of society – to safeguard human health on a rapidly changing planet.

  • Discover achievements and action in each of the tabs below.

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The next decade will determine whether humanity is successful in navigating immense planetary challenges threatening our health and well-being, and that of all life on Earth. PHA’s role is to ensure that when future generations look back on this period, they will see 2025 as the year when the Planetary Health movement gained the foothold and momentum necessary to transform our relationship with Earth.

Each achievement in this report represents real people making tangible differences in their communities. Each partnership creates new pathways for Planetary Health principles to reach those who need them most. Each publication shifts academic discourse toward greater recognition of the interconnections between human health and the Earth system. In sum, our collective achievements are the changes so acutely needed.

  • Discover achievements and action in each of the tabs below.

Policy Influence & Strategic Partnerships 

UNDP Collaborating Centre: Formal Partnership Launch 

The April 2025 signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Development Programme establishes an official UNDP Collaborating Centre on Planetary Health. While planning is still in early stages, this may create pathways for: 

Research and Policy Development
  • Sharing latest research and policy developments on Planetary Health
  • Mainstreaming Planetary Health approaches in SDG acceleration and UN Common Agenda initiatives
  • Contributing to Summit of the Future and post-2030 Agenda discussions
Global South Collaboration
  • Capacity building for Planetary Health implementation in diverse economic contexts
  • Technical assistance and South-South learning opportunities for developing nations
  • Potential publishing partnerships with institutions in underrepresented regions
Joint Convening
  • Co-hosting international conferences and policy dialogues
  • Building awareness through multilateral channels
  • Coordinating responses to global health and environmental challenges

Global Health Policy Integration

Pandemic Agreement Adoption: The May 2025 adoption of the global Pandemic Agreement includes One Health language in Article 5, creating opportunities for enhanced cooperation between One Health and Planetary Health communities. Planetary Health emphasizes collaboration rather than competition between frameworks, recognizing complementary actions to addressing Earth system challenges. 

Strategic Public Health Partnerships

Public Health Communications Collaborative (PHCC): Partnership to develop “Planetary Health is Public Health” toolkit—a useful communication resource for public health professionals to effectively discuss Planetary Health concepts with broader audiences. This collaboration leverages PHCC’s credibility and established networks for maximum reach.

American Public Health Association (APHA): Planetary Health will be featured in a session at the upcoming APHA Annual Meeting for the second consecutive year, creating a platform for reaching the broader public health community in the United States.

World Federation of Public Health Associations (WFPHA): Joint programming for Public Health Week and educational resource sharing. A September 2025 webinar is planned to clarify terminology and demonstrate collaboration between One Health and Planetary Health frameworks.

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Planetary Health is Public Health

Communications Planetary Health Frameworks

• Guides & Frameworks

Planetary Health is Public Health

A guide for communicating about human-driven environmental changes and their impact on human health.

Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health

Partnership Solidified

New Commentary Connecting Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health

Collaboration and Partnerships Research and Evaluation

New Commentary Connecting Planetary Boundaries and Planetary Health

Myers, S.S., Masztalerz, O., Ahdoot, S., et al.

The following press release is designed to help interested individuals and organizations share the news about leading researchers from the Planetary Health and Planetary Boundaries communities coming together to align their work.

A strategic collaboration that produced unprecedented alignment between holistic scientific frameworks connecting Earth system science with global health policy, establishing “Planetary Health-in-All-Policies” as a new governance approach for decision-makers worldwide. PHA and JHIPH communications teams spearheaded the global media campaign around this Comment, amplifying its reach to those who shape decisions affecting lives across interconnected systems.

Faith-Based & Cultural Engagement

Culture and Values

The Sunway Charter: Faith in Action

Co-hosted launch event for interfaith coalition addressing the Earth and health crisis. Sam Myers’ participation in the launch event recognizes that lasting transformation requires not only scientific evidence but also the moral and spiritual frameworks that guide human behavior across cultures.

Planetary Health in the Arts

PHA is hosting a series of online events featuring a variety of artistic expression and creative endeavors presented by artist speakers. It is an invitation to explore Planetary Health through new ways of seeing, feeling, and acting in our age of ecological and social transformation.

Global Launch of The Sunway Charter: Faith in Action

Civil Society Culture and Values

• Videos

Global Launch of The Sunway Charter: Faith in Action

Launch event featuring interfaith leaders discussing faith communities’ role in Planetary Health action. Speakers address faith, justice, and Planetary Health connections, urging solutions through spiritual engagement.
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