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Case Study

How to Shrink Your Clinic’s Carbon Footprint Using Quality Improvement

When a cohort of Stanford dermatology students had the opportunity to participate in a quality improvement project to use data to improve some aspect of their medical practice in the spring of 2021, they knew they wanted to focus on sustainability. 

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Rosamund Naylor and others assess aquaculture’s promise and peril

Aquaculture is an important source of food and income in…

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Mary Prunicki shows air pollution puts children at higher risk of disease in adulthood

Mar 12, 12:00 pm

Climate Change from the Streets – Environmental Justice and Sustainability Seminar from Stanford’s Woods Institute

Education

Applications open for the Rising Environmental Leaders Program from Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment

Planetary Health

Director of Research Steve Luby on the pervasive health threats of unregulated battery recycling

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke public health threat of air pollution in AP News

“From a climate perspective, wildfires should be the first things on our minds for many of us in the U.S.,” says Marshall Burke.

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke finds half of all particle pollution in parts of American West come from wildfires

Feb 18, 12:00 pm

NorCal Mini Symposium on Climate and Pandemic Resilience

Planetary Health

A Reflection on Global Health in 2020 from our Director, Dr. Michele Barry

Our founder and director reflects on an unprecedented year in global health and looks forward with renewed hope.

Planetary Health

Looking back on Stanford student led efforts to address planetary health in the Bay Area

Beyond Stanford

Dalai Lama & Greta Thunberg event to be moderated by Stanford Global Health Senior Advisor Diana Chapman Walsh

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellows contribute to the launch of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

With Global Health Faculty Fellow Kari Nadeau acting as a reviewer and Global Health Faculty Fellow Lisa Patel co-authoring a case study, Stanford faculty help establish this important new initiative.

Uncategorized

“COVID-19 Solutions Are Climate Solutions: Lessons From Reusable Gowns” published in Frontiers in Public Health by Stanford’s Climate and Health student group

Planetary Health

Job Opportunity: Human and Planetary Health Program Manager

Attention planetary health superstars! We’re hiring a Manager to support building out a new and exciting portfolio to influence policy and advance a high-impact planetary health agenda.

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow David A. Relman on unravelling the origins of COVID-19 to prevent the next pandemic in PNAS

Dec 18, 10:00 am

Water sensitive cities show how holistic approaches can counter the health and wellbeing problems associated with urban dryness, writes CIGH Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby in BMJ

Note From The Field

Note from the Field: Responding to COVID-19 through a One Health approach to gorilla conservation in Uganda

Covid 19

CIGH Research Director Stephen Luby discusses surprising results of a recent study on Nipah virus, a disease with no vaccine and a mortality rate of up to 70 percent

Planetary Health

November Newsletter: Human and Planetary Health

While many of us were anxiously pacing through a week-long election, the United States quietly but formally withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement...