Strategic Plan Now Open for Comments
JHIPH is seeking feedback on its draft strategic plan. We invite all voices to share their thoughts and help shape the future of our work!
What is Planetary Health?
Planetary Health provides a powerful framework for transforming our relationship to our physical world. While it is concerned with climate change, Planetary Health is more broadly focused on the global health implications of the Earth crisis—all the ways that human activity is transforming our planet’s natural systems. This includes disruptions to biodiversity; the pollution of air, water, and soil; and changes in land use, such as deforestation and dams. The mission of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health is to catalyze scholarship and practice of Planetary Health across the University, bring together a cohesive community of practice, and establish Johns Hopkins University as a global leader in addressing the global health and humanitarian dimensions of the Earth crisis.
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A new kind of Institute
The Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health is comprised of dedicated faculty, researchers, and students who are committed to working across disciplines to address the urgency of the Earth crisis and its impacts on humanity. Combining the enormous strength of the departments, schools, centers, and programs at Johns Hopkins University with the initiatives, partners, and engagements of the Planetary Health Alliance to form a Johns Hopkins University Institute for Planetary Health will generate a vibrant, global, transdisciplinary community of scholarship and practice while quickly augmenting the university's leadership in confronting some of our greatest societal challenges.
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What does the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health do?
The Institute is advancing Planetary Health research, education, policy, and practice across Johns Hopkins University. By bringing faculty and students together across disciplines and divisions to work on collaborative projects, the Institute will help the University play a lead role in moving the field of Planetary Health forward. We envision numerous workstreams as diverse as designing Planetary Health cities, working with the Indigenous health community to explore the intersections with Indigenous determinants of health, and working with nurses and physicians to green health care and communicate the Planetary Health emergency to patients, colleagues, and communities. In education, the Institute will help integrate Planetary Health competencies into nursing, medical, public health, and undergraduate curricula. Collaborations with the policy community at Hopkins and the engineering, AI, and data science communities will lead to innovations in policy, technology, and practice.
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What does the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health offer?
The Institute for Planetary Health removes obstacles to cross-disciplinary collaboration. We plan to offer support for workshops and convenings (including at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington DC), development of research proposals, new Planetary Health course development, and connection to the global Planetary Health community through the Planetary Health Alliance. In addition, we will organize monthly dinner seminars for affiliated faculty and special events and retreats on Planetary Health topics. Over time, we seek to provide seed grants for research and support for postdoctoral fellows connected to Planetary Health research hubs.
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October Planetary Health Dinner
An evening of thought-provoking discussion and collaboration, exploring the intersection of the arts, humanities, and Planetary Health—past, present, and future.
JHIPH faculty are featured across various media, offering insights into key issues in planetary health.
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Become Part of JHU’s Planetary Health Community
All JHU faculty, staff, and students—across any division—are invited to join our expanding Planetary Health community.
JHIPH collaborates with a range of student-led groups focused on Planetary Health across JHU.
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