Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH)
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.
Upcoming Events
Stay tuned for information about the next C4PH events, and learn more about past events here.
Who we are:
- 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. 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!
- Participate in the C4PH Working Group on Hylo
- Sign up to receive updates from C4PH by indicating your interest on the newsletter subscription form
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.
C4PH Partner Organizations
To join C4PH as a partner organization, please reach out to Nathan Uchtmann (nathaniel.uchtmann@gmail.com).
Meet the C4PH Team
Teddie Potter
Clinicians for Planetary Health Chair
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Dr. Teddie Potter is a Clinical Professor, the Specialty Coordinator of the Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership, and the Director of Planetary Health at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. She serves as the Chair of the Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) initiative.
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Yinmi Oladeji
C4PH Outreach Coordinator
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Yinmi serves as the Clinicians for Planetary Health outreach coordinator, working to build a global movement of clinicians invested in Planetary Health. Yinmi is an inspired undergraduate at the department of Microbiology, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
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Nathan Uchtmann
Clinicians for Planetary Health Partnerships
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Nathaniel Uchtmann is a Physician and Lawyer who currently works as an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Hospitalist at Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California. He completed a 2-year Global Health Fellowship through UCSF and graduated from residency training and medical school at the University of Illinois, where he also received his law degree and a master’s degree in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences. His advocacy work centers around ethically modelling ecology through highlighting our interdependency with healthy communities and a healthy planet.
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Professor Tatiana Souza de Camargo, PhD
Tatiana is a biologist and Associate Professor, researching and teaching about science education in different contexts (in schools, for community action, and health care) and for different public audiences (children, women farmers, indigenous populations and quilombos) aiming to promote scientific literacy as a key tool for exercising full citizenship.
Enrique Falceto de Barros, MD
Family Doctor in a rural community in Brazil. Professor at Universidade de Caxias do Sul. Past-Chair of the Working Party on the Environment of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). Member of the Planetary Health group at Instituto de Estudos Avançados at the Universidade de São Paulo.
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Vanessa Goes, MSc
Vanessa Goes is an Integrative health professional and artist with a multidisciplinary approach. Dancer, Registered dietitian, Wellness mentor and Pilates instructor, operates within the fields of arts, health and education.
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Raquel Santiago
Nutritionist and Gastronome, Raquel Santiago is an associate professor at a Federal University in the Middle west of Brazil. She has a Ph.D. in Nutrition for Public Health and her projects address issues of Food, Biodiversity, and Human Health. She coordinates the Center for Culinary Science at FANUT - UFG.
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Sandeep Maharaj
Dr. Sandeep Bhupendra Maharaj is a pharmacist and has done his graduate studies in Business Management (MBA and DBA). He serves as a Senior Lecturer and Director Designate of the School of Pharmacy and also as the Associate Dean of Distance, Education, and Planning and Director of the Entrepreneurship and Business Transformation Office for the Faculty at The UWI, St. Augustine.
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Saksham Sharma
Saksham Sharma is a fourth-year medical student at Ivan Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University in Ukraine. He works alongside the European Medical Students Association (EMSA) as the Associate Editor for their journal, EuroMeds.
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