About Us
Sustaining Nature, Supporting Health
Current models of industrialization and consumption are eroding biodiversity, degrading the environment, and impacting the ability of ecosystems to support human communities. Climate change and other environmental challenges are creating a health crisis of planetary dimension, with impacts falling disproportionately on vulnerable and historically marginalized populations.
Stanford's Center for Human and Planetary Health – a multi-disciplinary effort that started in 2017, based at the Woods Institute for the Environment in close partnership with the Stanford School of Medicine’s Center for Innovation in Global Health – believes that these challenges offer a great opportunity for action. The Center brings together perspectives from environmental sciences, public health, systems thinking, policy, law, and other disciplines to achieve breakthroughs and find solutions. More than 130 faculty and Stanford leaders across campus are active in human and planetary health, and student engagement is high in all our work.
The Center for Human and Planetary Health's Mission, Vision, Values, Objectives
Mission
To create knowledge, prepare leaders, and drive impact in human and planetary health
Vision
Thriving ecosystems and healthy communities worldwide.
Our Objectives:
To drive solutions-oriented research
To develop future leaders
To accelerate impact by proactively engaging with stakeholders
To build the human and planetary health community at Stanford
Our core values:
Global Equity
Scientific Credibility and Integrity
Interdisciplinary Approaches
Diversity and Inclusivity
Collaboration
Impactful Solutions
