How We Work: From Science to Impact

The Center for Human and Planetary Health is focused on transforming research and education into meaningful real-world impact. In addition to robust research and education portfolios, we accelerate impact through outreach to stakeholders, strategic communications, enabling collaboration, and co-designing community-engaged solutions. We help Stanford researchers move their evidence to impact by convening key stakeholders, and crafting foundational policy recommendations and strategic communications materials. Additionally, some of our partners provide opportunities for advancing human and planetary health through impact entrepreneurship and medical education.

Strategic Writing Advancing Planetary Health

SWAP, a new program based at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, leverages Stanford expertise and faculty-student teams to develop evidence-based strategies, partnerships, and messaging to influence policy and grassroots actions that protect people and the planet. This opportunity is open to students enrolled in the Notation in Science Communication and Master’s in Environmental Communication programs. LEARN MORE →

Human and Planetary Health Workshop Series

The Center for Human and Planetary Health organizes workshops and events to convene Stanford researchers across schools and disciplines – along with other key stakeholders beyond the university – around pressing issues in human and planetary health. These solutions-oriented workshops offer opportunities for knowledge sharing, for collective brainstorming, and for seeding new collaborations to advance actionable Stanford-based research and translate it into real-world impact. LEARN MORE →

Human and Planetary Health Working Groups

Working groups organized by the Center for Human and Planetary Health draw together experts across Stanford to advance common research and impact goals. These working groups, led by Stanford community members, bring together multiple disciplines to identify pressing challenges within a particular dimension of human and planetary health, as well as specific research, development, policy, or innovation goals for the working group. Our current working groups include: 1) Wildfires and Health, 2) Plastics and Health. For more information or to join a working group, please contact HPH Managing Director Allison Phillips: ap10@stanford.edu