Stanford Courses in Human and Planetary Health
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The human and planetary health crisis requires new thinking and bold leadership. Over 70 courses are offered each year to Stanford graduate and undergraduate students. These courses prepare students for careers in human and planetary health by exploring health adaptations to the climate crisis, investigate how public health and environmental justice are intertwined, and discuss how health considerations can inform environmental action.
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| Course Names | Instructors | Quarters Offered | Student Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEE 374W: Advanced Topics in Water, Health and Development | Jenna Davis, PhD | All | Undergraduates, Graduate, Medical |
| CEE 277F: Advanced Field Methods in Water, Health and Development | Jenna Davis, PhD | All | Undergraduates, Graduate, Medical |
| CS 106S: Coding for Social Good | Jerry Cain, Benjamin Yan | Fall, Winter, Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate, Medical |
| OSPCPTWN 10: Climate Change and Political Violence* | Kenneth Schultz, PhD, MA | Summer | Undergraduates |
| SGSI 2024: Research with Impact: Developing Skills as a Community-Engaged Scholar | Clayton A. Hurd, PhD; Joanne Tien, PhD | Summer | Graduate Students |
| OSP-OAX: Biocultural diversity and Community-based conservation | Rodolfo Dirzo, PhD | Summer | Undergradates |
| BIO 276: Disease Ecology | Erin Mordecai, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical |
| HUMBIO 116: Climate Perspectives: Climate Science, Impacts, Policy, Negotiations, and Advocacy (EARTHSYS 116A, PUBLPOL 116) | Joe Nation, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| MED 285: Global Leaders and Innovators in Human and Planetary Health (HRP 285, SUSTAIN 345) | Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA Sara Singer, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 371C: SARS-CoV-2 in the Environment | Alexandria Boehm, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 179: The Science & Practice of Valuing Nature for a Better World (BIO 279, EARTHSYS 179, EARTHSYS 279) | Gretchen Daily, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems (ESS 230) | Garry Sotnik, MA; Pam Matson, PhD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 194A: Environmental Justice Colloquium (HUMRTS 194A, URBANST 155A) | Sibyl Diver, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| STS 177: The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating: Technology, History, and Justice | Kyoko Sato, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SUSTAIN 329: Policy Practicum: Smoke (LAW 808D) | Michael Wara, JD, PhD Deborah Sivas, JD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CHPR 237: Hunger & Food Insecurity: Challenges and Solution | Christopher Gardner, PhD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| GLOBAL 112: Oceans and the Global Imaginary (GLOBAL 212, OCEANS 112, OCEANS 212) | Krish Seetah, PhD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIODS 228: Statistical genomics for planetary health: oceans, plants, microbes and humans | Julia Salzman, PhD | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ESS 14N: Sustainable Adaptation | Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD, MA | Fall | Undergraduates |
| SINY 65: Climate Justice in the Megacity | Walter Rodriguez Meyer | Fall | Undergraduates |
| LAW 2515: Environmental Justice | Michelle Anderson, JD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| PEDS 289: Policy Practicum: Climate and Rural Health (LAW 809U, EBS 291) | Lisa Patel, MD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS | Fall | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SUST 297: Introduction to Systems Transformation | Banny Bannerjee; Annette Zou, MS | Fall, Spring | Graduate Students |
| HRP 224: Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation Lab (SE Lab) - Human & Planetary Health (MED 224, PUBLPOL 224) | Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA | Fall, Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 278A: Air Pollution Fundamentals | Royal Kopperud, PhD | Fall, Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| POLISCI 21N: Conflict and Climate Change | Kenneth Schultz, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| BIO 35N: Catching up with Traditional Ecological Knowledge | Tadashi Fukami, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| ESS 14N: Sustainable Adaptation | Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| OCEANS 6N: Ocean Conservation: Pathways to Solutions | Larry Crowder, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| ESS 61Q: Food and Security | Rosamond Naylor, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| GEP 228: Topics and Methods in Global Environmental Policy I | Marshall Burke PhD, Solomon Hsiang PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIOE 271: Frugal Science | Manu Prakash, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EMED 134: Climate Change, Toxins, and Health: From Education to Action (EMED 234) | James Marvel, MD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIOE 375: Biodesign and Entrepreneurship for Societal Health (Med 236) | Narges Baniasadi, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SOMGEN 207: Theories of Change in Global Health (INTLPOL 291, PUBLPOL 291) | Stephen Luby, MD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CHPR 239: Contemplative Competence for Sustainability of Public and Planetary Health and Well-being | Tia Rich, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| HUMBIO 3B: Environmental and Health Policy Analysis | Laurence Baker, PhD & Joe Nation, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 260C: Contaminant Hydrogeology and Reactive Transport (ESS 221) | Steven Gorelick, PhD, MS, Katharine Maher, PhD, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 64: Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions (CEE 263D) | Mark Jacobson, PhD, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 71: Planet Ocean (ESS 71) | Rob Dunbar, PhD; Fiorenza Micheli, PhD; & Stephen Palumbi, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 6N: Ocean Conservation: Pathways to Solutions | Larry Crowder, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CHPR 113: Healthy/Sustainable Food Systems: Maximum Sustainability across Health, Economics, and Environment (HUMBIO 113S) | Christopher Gardner, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 272: Coastal Contaminants | Alexandria Boehm, PhD, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries | Jenna Davis, PhD, MSPH | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ESS 306: From Freshwater to Oceans to Land Systems: An Earth System Perspective to Global Challenges | Elliott White, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 35: Sustainability and Civilization (HISTORY 35, POLISCI 35) | Rodolfo Dirzo, PhD, MSc; R. Lanier Anderson, PhD, MA; Bruce Cain, PhD; Gabriella Safran, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| MED 242: Human Rights and Health | Ami Laws, MD; Erika Schillinger, MD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 41Q: Clean Water Now! Urban Water Conflicts | Royal Kopperud, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CHPR 272: Geography of Health | Judith Prochaska, PhD, MPH, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| HUMBIO 122H: Social and Environmental Determinants of Health (PEDS 150, PEDS 250) | Janine Bruce, DrPH, MPH; Jorge De Luna, MPH;Baraka Floyd, MD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SUSTAIN 232: Influencing Policy | Michael Wara, JD, PhD & Deborah Sivas, JD, MS; Jessica Yu, PhD; Amanda Zerbe, JD, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| HUMBIO 166: Food and Society: Exploring Eating Behaviors in Social, Environmental, and Policy Context (CHPR 166) | Christopher Gardner, PhD, MS | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ESS 328: Environmental Change and Human Resiliency | N/A | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 185: Where the Wild Things Are: The Ecology and Ethics of Conserving Megafauna (DLCL 170, EALC 170, EARTHSYS 170, GLOBAL 170) | Rodolfo Dirzo, PhD; Deborah Gordon, PhD; Haiyan Lee, PhD | Winter | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 2N: Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease in a Changing World | Erin Mordecai, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| COMPMED 155Q: Microscopy in Animal Disease | Flavio Herberg de Alonso, DVM, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| COMPMED 84Q: Globally Emerging Zoonotic Diseases | Stephen Felt, DVM, MPH | Spring | Undergraduates (IntroSem) |
| EARTHSYS 115: Science for Sustainable Solutions (EARTHSYS 215, SUST 215) | Steve Davis, PhD, JD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| HUMBIO 114: Global Change and Emerging Infectious Disease (EARTHSYS 114, EARTHSYS 214, ESS 213) | James Jones, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 125: Shades of Green: Exploring and Expanding Environmental Justice in Practice (CSRE 125E, EARTHSYS 225, URBANST 125) | Sibyl Diver, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ME 375: Wildfire Science | Matthias Ihme, PhD, MSc | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| COLLEGE 106: Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions | William Barnett, PhD; Chris Field, PhD; Mejgan Massoumi, PhD, MCP & Belinda Ramírez, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 109: Rethinking Meat: An Introduction to Alternative Proteins (EARTHSYS 209, ESS 103, ESS 203, ETHICSOC 107) | David Lobell, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 123: Catalyzing Solutions for a Sustainable Ocean: Learning with Local Communities (OCEANS 123H, OCEANS 223H) | Giulio De Leo, PhD; Fiorenza Micheli, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 139A: Designing Regenerative Societies (STS 139) | Trond Arne Undheim, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| SUSTAIN 222: Philanthropy for Sustainable Development (ETHICSOC 232T, POLISCI 236, POLISCI 236S) | Patricia Bromley, PhD, MSc; Vera Michalchik, PhD, EdM | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| OSPCPTWN 77: The Anthropocene in Africa: From Colonialism to Climate Crisis | Tammy Wilks | Spring | Undergraduates |
| EARTHSYS 62: Building Alliances for Water Justice: Case Studies from California | Sibyl Diver, PhD; Felicia Marcus, JD; Stephanie Safdi, JD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 160: Sustainable Cities (URBANST 164) | Richard Murray Kos | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ESS 234: Climate Displacement, Migration, and Mobility (HUMRTS 224) | Chris Field, PhD; Rwaida Gharib, MS; Janet Martinez, PhD, JD, MPA | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| ESS 166: Will Technology Save the World?: Environmental Ethics and Techno-Optimism (ESS 266) | Rob Jackson PhD, MS; Ann Thresher, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| COLLEGE 106: Environmental Sustainability: Global Predicaments and Possible Solutions | William Barnett, PhD; Chris Field, PhD; Mejgan Massoumi, PhD, MCP; Belinda Ramírez, PhD; Randall Holmes, MS | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| PWR 91HK: Farmer, Scientist, Activist, Chef: Communicating for Food Security and Food Justice | Hayden Kantor, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| DESIGN 261: Systems Design for Health: Reimagining Stanford Campus Town Center (SUSTAIN 128) | Gordon Bloom, MBA, MFA & Sara Singer, PhD; Joanne Cheung; Stephen Johannes Downs | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| CEE 130R: Racial Equity in Energy (AFRICAAM 131, CEE 330) | Rishee Jain; Anthony Kinslow, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| EARTHSYS 123: Tribal Food Sovereignty (NATIVEAM 123) | Vena A Briones | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |
| BIO 144: Conservation Biology: A Latin American Perspective (BIO 234, HUMBIO 112) | Rodolfo Dirzo, PhD | Spring | Undergraduates, Graduate Students, Medical Students |