HPH Newsletter
The Center for Human and Planetary Health sends a regular newsletter, which provides the latest news articles, publications, events, and opportunities for engagement at Stanford and beyond. Read archived newsletter issues below.
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2026
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February 06, 2026
Research convening recap, farmworker safety, medical education
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January 23, 2026
"In desperate need of systems change," valuing human life, SWAP showcase
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2025
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December 12, 2025
Medical training, malaria resurgence, lead-free childhood development
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December 02, 2025
Electric stoves, intense heat, HPH Early Career Research Awards
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October 31, 2025
New HPH Action Lab, sustainability in healthcare, rheumatic disease, modeling heat stress
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October 17, 2025
Lead exposure, HPH Catalyst Awards, and technology for planetary health
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October 03, 2025
Tracking microplastics, fisheries agreement, breaching planetary limits, fall events
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September 19, 2025
New report from National Academies, wildfire research, dengue & more
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September 05, 2025
Extreme weather, habitat mapping, fall courses & events, and more
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August 08, 2025
“Opportunities to push back”, wildfire particular matter on resting heart rate, 15 minutes in nature
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July 28, 2025
Planetary Boundaries & Health, Environmental Footprint of Healthcare Food Service, Flooding & Prenatal Depression
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July 11, 2025
Prescribed Burns & Biodiversity, Malaria & Climate, Plastic in Glass Water Bottles
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June 27, 2025
HPH Early Career Awards, Microplastics and Heart Disease, Last Call Planetary Health Postdoc Fellowship
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June 13, 2025
Apply now for HPH Fellowship, characteristics of a planetary health leader, summer heat
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June 06, 2025
Food and Disease Protection, Green Space and Heart Health, HPH Comms Assistant & SWAP Applications Open
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May 30, 2025
Tree Cover & Disease, WHO Climate Health Plan, HPH Fellowship & SWAP Opps. Open
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May 23, 2025
Heat and Health, Air Pollution Affecting BMI, Impact Entrepreneurship Summit feat. Steve Luby
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May 16, 2025
Gas stoves, cleaning up brick kilns, Katharine Hayhoe on campus next week!
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May 09, 2025
Reducing Brick Kiln Emissions, HPH Fellowship RFA, Deaths Attributed To Wildfires
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May 02, 2025
Rural Energy & Health Action Lab, Cyclone's Impact Education & Health, Plastics & Heart Disease
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April 25, 2025
Celebrate Earth poem, HPH event with Katharine Hayhoe, Psychological impacts of climate change
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April 18, 2025
HPH/PBDI Food Postdoc Opp, CA wildfires & mental health, India warming slowly
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April 11, 2025
HPH Voices Blog; HPH Food Working Group; Heat, Cold & Linguistic Development
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March 28, 2025
RSVP for next HPH event, NIH/EPA rollbacks, health & high nitrate
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March 21, 2025
Unhealthy Planet Grand Rounds, EPA Rollbacks, the Future of Food
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March 14, 2025
RSVP for HPH Spotlight Speaker, Climate Emotions, Air Pollution Impacts
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March 07, 2025
Alzheimer's-air pollution link, pediatric grand rounds, heat-induced kidney disease
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February 28, 2025
Microplastics get macro, spring quarter HPH courses, join the HPH community!
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February 14, 2025
Join the HPH community, coal emissions & food, aftermath of LA fires
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February 07, 2025
HPH wildfires and health webinar recording, why we need USAID, and air pollution impacts on crops
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January 31, 2025
Health and disaster response, greening labs, PM2.5 in India
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January 17, 2025
LA Wildfires & Health, Job Opportunities with HPH, Summer Internships
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January 10, 2025
Planetary health in 2024, climate and conflict, new dietary guidance
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2025
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December 12, 2025
Medical training, malaria resurgence, lead-free childhood development
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December 02, 2025
Electric stoves, intense heat, HPH Early Career Research Awards
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October 31, 2025
New HPH Action Lab, sustainability in healthcare, rheumatic disease, modeling heat stress
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October 17, 2025
Lead exposure, HPH Catalyst Awards, and technology for planetary health
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October 03, 2025
Tracking microplastics, fisheries agreement, breaching planetary limits, fall events
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September 19, 2025
New report from National Academies, wildfire research, dengue & more
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September 05, 2025
Extreme weather, habitat mapping, fall courses & events, and more
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August 08, 2025
“Opportunities to push back”, wildfire particular matter on resting heart rate, 15 minutes in nature
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July 28, 2025
Planetary Boundaries & Health, Environmental Footprint of Healthcare Food Service, Flooding & Prenatal Depression
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July 11, 2025
Prescribed Burns & Biodiversity, Malaria & Climate, Plastic in Glass Water Bottles
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June 27, 2025
HPH Early Career Awards, Microplastics and Heart Disease, Last Call Planetary Health Postdoc Fellowship
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June 13, 2025
Apply now for HPH Fellowship, characteristics of a planetary health leader, summer heat
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June 06, 2025
Food and Disease Protection, Green Space and Heart Health, HPH Comms Assistant & SWAP Applications Open
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May 30, 2025
Tree Cover & Disease, WHO Climate Health Plan, HPH Fellowship & SWAP Opps. Open
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May 23, 2025
Heat and Health, Air Pollution Affecting BMI, Impact Entrepreneurship Summit feat. Steve Luby
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May 16, 2025
Gas stoves, cleaning up brick kilns, Katharine Hayhoe on campus next week!
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May 09, 2025
Reducing Brick Kiln Emissions, HPH Fellowship RFA, Deaths Attributed To Wildfires
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May 02, 2025
Rural Energy & Health Action Lab, Cyclone's Impact Education & Health, Plastics & Heart Disease
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April 25, 2025
Celebrate Earth poem, HPH event with Katharine Hayhoe, Psychological impacts of climate change
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April 18, 2025
HPH/PBDI Food Postdoc Opp, CA wildfires & mental health, India warming slowly
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April 11, 2025
HPH Voices Blog; HPH Food Working Group; Heat, Cold & Linguistic Development
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March 28, 2025
RSVP for next HPH event, NIH/EPA rollbacks, health & high nitrate
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March 21, 2025
Unhealthy Planet Grand Rounds, EPA Rollbacks, the Future of Food
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March 14, 2025
RSVP for HPH Spotlight Speaker, Climate Emotions, Air Pollution Impacts
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March 07, 2025
Alzheimer's-air pollution link, pediatric grand rounds, heat-induced kidney disease
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February 28, 2025
Microplastics get macro, spring quarter HPH courses, join the HPH community!
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February 14, 2025
Join the HPH community, coal emissions & food, aftermath of LA fires
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February 07, 2025
HPH wildfires and health webinar recording, why we need USAID, and air pollution impacts on crops
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January 31, 2025
Health and disaster response, greening labs, PM2.5 in India
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January 17, 2025
LA Wildfires & Health, Job Opportunities with HPH, Summer Internships
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January 10, 2025
Planetary health in 2024, climate and conflict, new dietary guidance
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2024
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December 13, 2024
Lead in pipes, traffic & kids health impacts, winter quarter classes
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December 06, 2024
Climate anxiety on the rise, the virus-climate connection, HERI-Kenya gala
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November 22, 2024
Dengue and climate change, still freaking out about black plastics and food, more and more methane
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November 15, 2024
COP 29, removing lead from the global economy, plastics and health
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November 08, 2024
Pesticides and prostate cancer, mining and malaria, reproductive health
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November 01, 2024
New Center for HPH, prescribed burns, a third of tree species
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October 25, 2024
Aquaculture for the climate, new podcast, climate emotions
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October 18, 2024
"Hazard hot spots, " psychological impacts, science communication
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October 11, 2024
"Social-E," women's leadership, healthcare improvement, climate risk
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October 04, 2024
'No place to hide,' solving urban sustainability challenges, helping farmers plan
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September 27, 2024
Lead poisoning mystery, PFAS in food, planetary boundaries, climate news
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September 20, 2024
Hidden costs of food, floods, black soldier flies, trees as treatment
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September 13, 2024
Building blocks of change, new website, inequality, Amazon's biggest champion
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September 06, 2024
Eco-cultural revitalization, "less than fantastic, " getting ready for fall
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August 30, 2024
EEE, fall courses, civil rights law – and save the date for Oct 15!
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August 23, 2024
Smoke hazards, air conditioning, new plastic & health working group
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August 16, 2024
Oxygen-producing ocean metal, carbon-sequestering fungi, and more
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August 09, 2024
Importance of biodiversity, climate politics, mental health
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August 02, 2024
Social competition, urban solutions, the "food polycrisis"
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July 26, 2024
Elephant in the room, disease ecology, over 80% globally demand climate action
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July 05, 2024
"Conservation imperatives," cancer, inequality, seed grant awards & more
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June 21, 2024
Hope for the climate, new Stanford positions, adding health to the "evidence bank"
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June 07, 2024
Importance of biodiversity, climate politics, mental health
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May 31, 2024
Art, adopting oil wells, homicide charges, ‘the answer is community’
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May 24, 2024
Extreme heat, plasticulture, forest insurance, SUSTAIN 103 TAs
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May 10, 2024
Pollution conference, TIME100, $500k in individual climate costs
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April 26, 2024
Lead in food, plastics in arteries, litigation strategies & more
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April 05, 2024
Exploring global climate risks, EJ news, biodiversity & more
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March 24, 2024
"Zombie" subsidies, pollution & health abstracts, planetary health education
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March 22, 2024
Plant-based diet funding, NatCap Symposium, "Drilling for Disease"
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March 15, 2024
Pollution & health abstracts, global migration, coral reefs
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March 01, 2024
A Resilient Pacific, abstracts for EJ conference, new ethics course
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February 23, 2024
Climate Resilient Schools Act, EJ film festival, events & opportunities
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February 16, 2024
CIGH seed grants, biodiversity & health, EEID abstract submission
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January 26, 2024
Metals & wildfires, mining, Amah Mutsun volunteer opportunity & more
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January 19, 2024
Climate counseling, biodiversity credits, abandonment zones & more
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January 05, 2024
Climate emotions, environmental humanities event, All We Can Save
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2023
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December 09, 2023
Call for contributors, community forest governance & more
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October 27, 2023
$391 million / day in climate costs – plus Farm Bill, fellowship, events & more
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October 20, 2023
Yellow jack, frugal innovation, marine protected areas & more
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September 22, 2023
Smoke, women's leadership, survey for new center & more
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