Planetary health part 3 with Sam Myers, Founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance

This episode is in English.

Planetary Health: It is all connected - what saves the planet saves our health.

This is part three of a Planetary Health series with the Swedish Global Health podcast. In this episode we invite you to listen to a conversation between Sam Myers and two members from our podcast team, on how to act for our health, through acting on climate change and environmental hazards.

Sam Myers is a Medical Doctor as well as Principal Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the founding Director of the Planetary Health Alliance. His work spans over several areas of planetary health including 1) the global nutritional impacts of rising concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere; 2) the health impacts of land management decisions in SE Asia associated with biomass burning and particulate air pollution 3) the global consequences of fisheries decline for human nutrition and health; 4) the global impact of animal pollinator declines on human nutrition today and in the future; and 5) the impact of climate shocks on human nutrition as mediated through global food trade. As the Director of the Planetary Health Alliance, he oversees a multi-institutional effort (over 300 organizations in over 60 countries) focused on understanding and quantifying the human health impacts of disrupting Earth’s natural systems and translating that understanding into policy decisions and social action globally. Myers is a Commissioner on the Lancet-Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Planetary Health and co-editor with Howard Frumkin of Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves.

Read more about Sam here: https://www.planetaryhealthalliance.org/sam-myers, https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/samuel-myers/

This episode was recorded during the Berzelius Symposium on Planetary Health in September 2022, in Stockholm. The symposium was arranged by the Swedish Society of Medicine’s Climate Group, a group that today’s interviewers are part of. Do you want to learn more about the symposium? Read more on our website: https://www.sls.se/om-oss/aktuellt/kalendarium/berzelius-symposium-105/

Vi som intervjuar i dagens avsnitt av podden är Hanna Jerndal, legitimerad läkare och doktorand samt Hedda Ottesen, AT-läkare och doktorand. Vid frågor om podden eller tips inför framtida avsnitt så kan du höra av dig till globalhalsa@slskuf.se