It is a solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary field of research and social movement focused on analyzing and addressing the consequences of human disruptions to Earth’s natural systems for human health and all life on Earth. The Planetary Health Alliance is a growing consortium of hundreds of universities, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, and government entities from more than eighty countries around the world committed to understanding and addressing the impacts of global environmental change on human health and well-being. The start of the initiative was the Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch report published by the Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health.
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- Planetary Health Alliance (2017) What is Planetary Health? Available at: https://planetaryhealthalliance.org/what-is-planetary-health/ (Accessed: 14 October 2025)
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defined as “the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, wellbeing, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish. Put simply, planetary health is the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends”. In 2014 the Rockefeller Foundation and The Lancet jointly formed the Commission on Planetary Health to review the scientific basis for linking human health to the underlying integrity of Earth’s natural system.