Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals are at the frontlines of protecting our health – therefore, they have a unique capacity to understand and communicate the shifting landscape of planetary health challenges and the strategies that individuals can take to safeguard their health and the health of the environment. The Clinicians for Planetary Health initiative is a global effort to galvanize health professionals, patients, and communities around planetary health through lifestyle modifications and activism.

SAVE THE DATE for our upcoming Clinicians Community Call!

We will be meeting again as a community Friday, March 17th at 1pm ET North America (UTC - 05:00). For your local time, please click on this link.  

This will be a gathering to meet each other and hear about updates from all around the world after our annual meeting this past November. Our topic for discussion will be exploring the health co-benefits of reconnecting with nature, especially forests. Speakers include:

- Gloria Blaise: PhD student at Cornell University studying the benefits of agroforestry initiatives in Haiti
- Alex Gesse: director of the Forest Therapy Hub
- Erica Timko Olson: clinical professor at University of Minnesota and researcher on forest bathing

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Who we are:
- Clinicians are people providing healthcare for individuals and communities. This includes physicians, physician assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives, dietitians, traditional healers, community 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. A subset of these individuals are involved in the Clinicians for Planetary Health working group.
- Over 30 partner 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.

Our approach:
- Developing outreach materials for healthcare settings that encourage individual- and community-level planetary health action, with an emphasis on health and environmental co-benefits
- Convening periodic calls to brainstorm, network, and exchange resources to build commitment to planetary health across the healthcare sector
- Sharing resources and stories of success through a newsletter, blog series, and podcast


More ways to join us!
PHA is thrilled to announce our new online platform for networking and sharing ideas: Hylo! Sign up with this link and be sure to join the C4PH group (it's separate from PHA main).

Our "Seedbox" of Open-Access Resources!
We’re pleased to present the “Seedbox”: an open-access repository of tools that you can use to bring planetary health into any clinical or health-related setting. This Google Drive folder (view-only) has some basic tools to help you start integrating planetary health into patient care. We also have submissions from our greater C4PH community; please see this link for all of the latest submissions. If you’d like to submit a resource yourself to the Seedbox, please do so using this form. Any questions? Please email pha@harvard.edu with the term “C4PH Seedbox” in the subject line.