Partners
Stanford Partners
Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Serving as the administrative home for the Center for Human and Planetary Health, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, housed in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, is the University's hub for interdisciplinary research about the environment. Woods brings together Stanford faculty, researchers, and students from all seven schools to foster research collaborations that tackle challenges too complex for any one discipline to solve alone.
Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health
One of the incubators and co-hosts of the Center for Human and Planetary Health, the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health enables emerging leaders and multi-disciplinary researchers to solve global health challenges and improve health equity. Human and Planetary Health remains a core pillar of CIGH’s activities.
Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group
The Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group (EJWG) is a cross-campus intergenerational collective working to embed environmental justice into research, teaching, and community-engagement at Stanford. EJWG’s work is grounded in interdisciplinarity, intergenerational leadership, and a relationship-based approach.
Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
The Stanford Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), based at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, is a popular track for Masters and PhD students interested in education and research on human and planetary health.
Emergence
Emergence works to inspire, educate, and support the next generation of innovators to improve human and planetary health through impact entrepreneurship.
Natural Capital Project
The Natural Capital Project is a partnership between interdisciplinary researchers, professionals, and leaders around the world –helping people, governments, and corporations incorporate the value of nature into decision-making.
Center for Ocean Solutions
The Center for Ocean Solutions catalyzes research, innovation, and action to improve the health of the oceans for the people who depend on them most.
Stanford Medicine’s Sustainability Program Office
A partnership between Stanford Health Care and Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, Stanford Medicine’s Sustainability Program Office supports human health by working towards carbon neutrality through innovative, science-based investigation and deliberate, assertive action.
CIRCLE
Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional wellbeing (CIRCLE) is a new initiative based in the Stanford School of Medicine. Practice-based research on climate anxiety in the classroom from Britt Wray and Peter Pellitier investigates the mental health impacts of climate change on students in environmental disciplines, and identifies opportunities for building resilience through psychosocial support interventions inside and outside the classroom, climate-aware approaches to mentorship, and public engagement.
Stanford Plant-Based Diet Initiative (PBDI)
The Stanford Plant-Based Diet Initiative (PBDI) focuses on scholarship and research to reap the benefits of a more plant-based, less animal-based diet for people and the environment.
Stanford King Center on Global Development
The Stanford King Center on Global Development enables a multidisciplinary community of Stanford scholars to conduct path breaking research, shape policy and practice, and train and inspire a diverse new generation of global leaders. The King Center offers interdisciplinary funding opportunities for research focused on global development.
Stanford Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP)
The Stanford Climate and Energy Policy Program (CEPP) operates at the interface of policy analysis, academic research and education, and stakeholder engagement. CEPP focal areas include wildfire and climate resilience, energy transition, sustainable and humane food systems, and environmental justice and equity. Specific efforts related to Human and Planetary Health include policy initiatives that address causes and responses to catastrophic California wildfires, research and policy analysis to protect children in schools from wildfire smoke, as well as education and analysis for environmental justice and equity.
Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE)
The Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) brings together experts in scientific, economic, and policy fields to address critical global issues of hunger, poverty and environmental degradation, aiming to one day solve the world’s food challenges. FSE is a joint effort of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.
Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Program
The Stanford Initiative on Business and Environmental Sustainability Program, hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, creates conference series and podcasts about environmental sustainability. These serve to facilitate dialogue between researchers, those who put principles into practice, and the general public.
UNICEF's Children's Environmental Health Collaborative
The Center for Human and Planetary Health is a member of UNICEF's Children's Environmental Health Collaborative, which is a global organization dedicated to improving and protecting children's health and wellbeing by addressing impacts of environmental hazards from preconception to adulthood.
Stanford Labs
De Leo Lab
The De Leo Lab is a theoretical ecology lab based at the Stanford Hopkins Marine Station. It uses quantitative tools to investigate factors and processes that affect human infectious disease dynamics, as well as marine resources of commercial and conservation interest. Specific Human and Planetary Health projects include: control and elimination of environmentally-transmitted infectious diseases (notably schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil), and researching the relationship between resource exploitation, infectious diseases, and poverty traps.
Luby Lab
The Luby Lab focuses on generating knowledge through public health research that seeks to support the improvement of community health, with a focus on low-income countries. The lab’s research programs include Water and Health, Air Pollution, Emerging Infections, Child Cognitive Development, Preventing Human Extinction, and Planetary Health. Specific Human and Planetary Health projects include: reducing air pollution from brick manufacturing in Bangladesh, converting waste methane into protein supplements for aquaculture feed, and providing safe water to low-income communities.
LaBeaud Lab
The LaBeaud Lab is an infectious disease research lab that focuses specifically on arboviral epidemiology (the study of arthropod or mosquito borne viruses). The aim of this research is to identify these infections’ long-term health impacts as well as prevention strategies to decrease disease risk and improve health outcomes. Specific Human and Planetary Health projects include: measuring trash with drones in Kenya as a means to understand disease spread, promoting school-based health and sanitation practices in Grenada, and investigating the source of urban spread of Rift Valley fever in Kenya.
Mordecai Lab
The Mordecai Lab focuses on the ecology of infectious disease through mathematical modeling and empirical data. Specific interests include how the climate, species interactions, and global change will affect and drive infectious disease dynamics in humans and natural ecosystems. Specific Human and Planetary Health projects include: investigating environmental drivers of vector-borne diseases, evaluating the effects of temperature on vector-transmitted diseases, and looking at eco-evolutionary drivers of mosquito-parasite interactions.
Burke Lab
The Burke Lab, also known as the Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab, studies the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being. Topics of research include wildfires, air pollution, climate impacts, and economic livelihoods. Specific Human and Planetary Health projects include: evaluating the effects of wildfire smoke on human health in India and the U.S., estimating the social and economic impacts of natural disasters and temperature increases, and measuring health benefits of switching from natural gas to electric stoves.
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