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Introducing PHA’s 2026 Thematic Newsletter Series

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Introducing PHA’s 2026 Thematic Newsletter Series

Explore PHA’s 2026 Thematic Newsletter Content Calendar, designed around key global moments and emerging priorities across the Planetary Health field. The page also serves as a community call for submissions, inviting partners worldwide to share blogs, events, opportunities, and organizational updates tied to upcoming themes.

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Kazunori Masuda: Building Under Extreme Heat in Tokyo

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Kazunori Masuda: Building Under Extreme Heat in Tokyo

Kazunori, a construction site chief in Tokyo, faces life-threatening extreme heat during summer work. Construction delays not only threaten local projects but also ripple through the global economy, as the industry depends on imported materials and supply chains already disrupted by climate change worldwide.

Megolisi Laiza: Adapting Maasai Way of Life to a Changing Climate

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Megolisi Laiza: Adapting Maasai Way of Life to a Changing Climate

Megolisi Limpu Laiza, a pastoralist from the Maasai community in Tanzania, shares how climate change—especially recurring droughts—is threatening his livestock, livelihood, and way of life.

Daniel Ryan Sanchez: Educating Through Storms in the Philippines

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Daniel Ryan Sanchez: Educating Through Storms in the Philippines

Meet Daniel Ryan Sanchez, a youth and student leader and volunteer from Santa Rosa, Philippines. As an SDG-4 advocate he leads the grassroots group Hope Builders Dream Tracers and runs a weekly “Lakbay Tahanan” house-to-house reading and feeding program for children. In this video Daniel explains how storms and flooding (like Typhoon Paeng) disrupted their work and the children’s education, and why relief is only a small part of long-term flood risk management. He calls for for systemic, education-centred reforms and sustained community action.

Daniela Lempertz: Healing Young Minds After the Ahr Valley Flood

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Daniela Lempertz: Healing Young Minds After the Ahr Valley Flood

Dr. Daniela Lempertz is a child and adolescent psychotherapist who provided first-response and follow-up care for people affected by posttraumatic stress symptoms in the aftermath of the Ahr Valley flood in Western Germany 2021. She talks about her therapeutic work with children, helpful resources and international cooperation for rapid psychological support after extreme weather events, and finally shares advice she gave to an 8-year old boy anxious about converging global crises.

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