Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals have a unique capacity to understand and communicate about Planetary Health challenges and the strategies that individuals can take to safeguard their health and the health of the environment.
C4PH is a global effort to galvanize health professionals, patients, and communities around Planetary Health through lifestyle modifications and activism.
Clinicians are people providing healthcare for individuals and communities. This includes physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, dietitians, healers, health workers, and others.
Over 1,000 clinicians from around the world have formally signed on to the Clinicians for Planetary Health initiative, expressing their commitment to addressing global environmental change and its health impacts.
More than 30 organizations co-signed the global call to action released in The Lancet on Earth Day 2019, which called on health communities around the world to take action on Planetary Health.
Through communicating the urgency of planetary health challenges via a global clinical network, we can spur individual-level behaviour change and bottom-up environmental action.
A call for clinicians to act on planetary health
The Lancet. 2021.
Clinician Organizations
See the 30+ organizations that co-signed The Lancet call to action
Green hospitals: Maximizing health and climate benefits globally. Science of the Total Environment.
Rojas-Rueda, D.
This framework provides implementation strategies, cross-cutting climate innovations, and explores interconnections between climate-smart healthcare, health equity, and global sustainability.
Adaptation and mitigation for the planetary health crisis: A scoping review from the perspective of primary health care providers. The Journal of Climate Change and Health.
Avanthay Strus, J., Sankam, J., Green, S., et al.
This scoping review sought to answer the following research question: “What strategies are being implemented across all forms of primary health care to adapt to and address the climate crisis?”
