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2024

 

Stanford launches center focused on human and planetary health | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | October 31, 2024

Bio-Strategies and Leadership Holds Inaugural Congressional Fellowship Program on Biotechnology Strategy | Hoover Institution | October 18, 2024

New climate and sustainability research efforts will focus on eight 'Solution Areas' | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | Stanford Report | August 6, 2024

Inaugural conference on pollution and health highlights the need for interdisciplinary effort : Video | Bethel Alebel Bayrau | Woods Institute for the Environment | June 3, 2024

Pollution and Health: Generating Evidence and Action to Advance Human and Planetary Health | Stanford Initiative on Business & Environmental Sustainability | May 21, 2024

Navigating the Complexities of Existential Risk: Insights from the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference | Gabriella Ermanni | Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | April 4, 2024

RxOH 2023 Alum: Abraar Karan | Abraar Karan | Rx One Health | January 31, 2024

2023

 

Health Day at COP28: a hard-won (partial) gain | The Lancet | December 9, 2023

COP 28 Declarations | COP 28 UAE | December 2, 2023

The 2023 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown | The Lancet | December 2023

Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change | The Lancet | December 2023

Saleemul Huq, climate change 'revolutionary' from Bangladesh, dies at 71 | William Branigin | The Washington Post | October 30, 2023

Building a career in climate change and health | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | October 19, 2023

Is AI an Existential Risk? With Trond Arne Undheim, Research Scholar in at Stanford University | Trond Arne Undheim | October 2, 2023

Infrastructure For The Future: Building Giga Scale To Last Forever | Trond Arne Undheim | Forbes | October 2, 2023

Celebrating Women Leaders in Climate and Health | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | September 20, 2023

The Swords of Damocles: Nuclear Weapons, Geoengineering, and the Politics of Placing Human Survival in Jeopardy for Economic Expediency | Daniel P. Zimmer | Can Technology Save the Planet?: Connecting Environmental Ethics with Technology Ethics: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences | September 5, 2023

SERI Research Scholar Dr. Trond Undheim speaks to CBS News about Existential Risk | CBS News | July 27, 2023

How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse | Nitasha Tiku | The Washington Post | July 5, 2023

Beyond Climate Dread: Striving to improve health during the environmental meltdown | Ruthann Richter | Stanford Medicine | June 2, 2023

The Cry Wolf Moment Of AI Hype Is Unhelpful | Trond Arne Undheim | Forbes | May 31, 2023

The Politics of Universality in the Earth System Anthropocene | Daniel P. Zimmer | Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | May 23, 2023

How Cascading Risks from Technology, Geopolitics, and Ecology Accumulate and How to Mitigate Them : Video | Trond Undheim | Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | April 24, 2023

Stanford human and planetary health course empowers students with tools for change to benefit both human health and the environment | Jamie Hansen | Stanford Report | January 25, 2023

2022

 

Can Our Collective Efforts Prevent Imminent Human Extinction? | Stephen Luby | Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health | October 20, 2022

Seeking solutions to complex health and environment challenges [Healthy Planet, Healthy People] | Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | September 7, 2022

Enabling Innovation: Grants nurture interdisciplinary environmental solutions | Rob Jordan | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment | Aug 4, 2022

Sustainability Accelerator brings people, policy to fast-track real-world solutions | Danielle Torrent Tucker | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | June 28, 2022

This Wealth Tax Would Be Used to Fund Pandemic Preparedness | Angela Hart | Kaiser Health News | May 2, 2022

Preventing Human Extinction as a Pubic Health Priority: Dr. Stephen Luby | Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Region IV Public Health Training Center, University of Louisville (UofL) | April 20, 2020

2020

 

Planetary health approaches for dry cities: water quality and heat mitigation | Tony Wong Nigel Tapper, Stephen Luby | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies | November 16, 2020

School focused on climate and sustainability moves forward | Stanford News | October 9, 2020

Provost announces task force on study of race; senators hear report on school of sustainability at Faculty Senate meeting | Stanford News | October 9, 2020

Stanford continues working toward a more sustainable and resilient future | Stanford News | September 29, 2020

New Stanford seed grants create pathways to sustainability [Healthy Planet, Healthy People] | Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | September 25, 2020:

  . Action Lab for Planetary Health (ALPHA) (human-planetary health) - Michelle Barry, Stephen Luby, Allison Phillips

  . Thriving Livelihoods and Sustainable Ecosystems in Lower-Income Countries (cities-communities) - Stephen Luby, Grant Miller, Erica Plambeck, Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, David Lobell, Giulio De Leo, Stephen Felt, Gretchen Daily

  . Human and Planetary Health Accelerator: Action Pathway to Link the New School of Sustainability with the School of Medicine (human-planetary health) - Giulio De Leo, Rodolfo Dirzo, Craig Criddle, Kari Nadeau, Erica Plambeck, James H. Jones, Michele Barry, Nicole Ardoin, Stephen Luby

New Stanford seed grants create pathways to sustainability | Danielle Torrent Tucker | Stanford News | September 24, 2020

Stanford course on human extinction and cognitive biases strikes a chord with students in time of COVID-19 | Sandra Feder | Stanford News | June 2, 2020 

THINK 65 examines paths to human extinction | Smiti Mittal | The Stanford Daily | June 1, 2020 

Speaker Portfolio: Stephen Luby | A Global Health Legacy for the Future | June 1, 2020 [Postponed]

School focused on climate and sustainability will amplify Stanford’s impact | Amy Adams | Stanford News | May 21, 2020 

Stanford Existential Risk Initiative tackles global threats | Cooper Veit | The Stanford Daily | May 20, 2020 

Stanford reflects on Earth Day at 50: Stephen Luby | Rob Jordan and Megan Glatzel | Stanford News | April 22, 2020 

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Stanford University team up on new Fellowship in Planetary Health | Announcement:  Planetary Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship | The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | April 21, 2020 

Presenting Pathways research at the Planetary Health Alliance Conference, Stanford, USA | Abosede Sarah Alli, Jacob Doku Tetteh | Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities | January 28, 2020 

Committee seeks feedback on ways to bridge sustainability research, education and impact | Stanford News | January 28, 2020

2019

 

Stanford University — Global Catastrophic Risk Education | Open Philanthropy | December 1, 2019 

Catalyzing Healthier Communities | Steve Luby | YouTube | October 10, 2019

Thank you to our 2019 PHAM: PHA 2019: Complete Livestream (YouTube) | Planetary Health Alliance | October 1, 2019 

The Scary New Math of Factory Farm Waste | EcoWatch | June 18, 2019

BONUS POD: Interview with Steve Luby (Spotify) | Stanford Politics Podcast | June 2019

The climate of health | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | March 19, 2019

The Great Global Health Debate: Stephen Luby (Twitter) | Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2019 | March 9, 2019

Humanity is all right, probably, although human extinction remains quite possible, researcher says | Jody Berger | Stanford Medicine | February 19, 2019

2018

 

Announcing the 2019 Planetary Health Annual Meeting at @Stanford on September 4-6 | Stanford Earth:  2019 Planetary Health Annual Meeting | Planetary Health Alliance | October 31, 2018 

Stanford Students Deploy Machine Learning to Aid Environmental Monitoring | Rob Jordan | Stanford Report | October 1, 2018

2017

 

In Madagascar, Stanford researchers are working to improve health — and studying lemurs | Ruthann Richter | Stanford Medicine: Scope | February 14, 2017

2014

 

Universities 2.0: Advancing Global Health in the Post-MDG Era | Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) | May 10, 2014

50 Breakthroughs: Critical scientific and technological advances needed for sustainable global development: Intro; Full Report | Institute for Globally Transformative Technologies (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) | 2014