HPH and the Sustainable Development Goals

The Stanford Human and Planetary Health community advances 12 Sustainable Development Goals

	HPH prioritizes win-win, community-engaged solutions that promote economic resilience, reduce disease burdens that can perpetuate disease-poverty traps, and mitigate environmental harms disproportionately affecting low-income communities.
	HPH promotes sustainable and regenerative food system practices, both on land and in water, to reduce global emissions, preserve biodiversity, enhance food security, and improve nutrition.
	HPH recognizes the deep connection between human health and health of our planet. We advance solutions that protect the natural world, enhance well-being, expand knowledge among medical professionals, and mitigate health impacts.
	HPH works to reduce contaminants in our waters, including those that cause water-borne illnesses. We also advance solutions for managing wastewater and improving sanitation in marginalized communities.
	Transitioning to clean energy is a key strategy in combating climate change and its health impacts. HPH leads a course focused on scaling clean energy in order to decrease the health effects of greenhouse gas emissions on people and our planet.
	HPH leads research and innovation to mitigate the health and environmental harms of polluting industries, and partners with development banks to ensure that water infrastructure projects prevent, rather than exacerbate, water-borne diseases like schistosomiasis.
	Through community partnerships and research collaborations, HPH collaborates with frontline communities – whose health is disproportionately affected by climate change due to systemic inequalities – to catalyze and support lasting environmental justice.
	Over-consumption and unsustainable business practices are critical challenges for HPH. To address them, HPH develops evidence-based innovations that advance a circular economy, reducing pollution and other environmental burdens that impact human health.
	HPH advances solutions and conducts research to support bold climate action, recognizing that climate change is a primary driver of natural disasters and their associated health impacts. Our work includes innovations in community resilience, and working to assess the health benefits of a renewable energy system.
	HPH recognizes the link between ocean health and human health, and advances solutions that simultaneously protect the ocean, generate new solutions to reduce emissions in the seafood industry, and promote sustainable nutrition.
	HPH advances research and education to support sustainable land stewardship, foster thriving ecosystems, reduce zoonotic diseases by minimizing unnecessary human-animal contact, and enhance well-being by promoting human connection with nature.
	HPH is an interdisciplinary, partnership-driven Center that integrates systems thinking and diverse disciplines to develop comprehensive solutions for health and sustainability.