Developing Trusted Voices for Planetary Health: Findings from a Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) Workshop
Michael Xie,
Vanessa Góes,
Melissa Lem,
Kristin Raab,
Tatiana Souza de Camargo,
Enrique Falceto de Barros,
Sandeep Maharaj,
Teddie Potter
Affiliations
Michael Xie
School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Vanessa Góes
LeBioME-Bioactives, Mitochondria and Placental Metabolism Core, Institute of Nutrition Josué de Castro, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-902, Brazil
Melissa Lem
Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada
Kristin Raab
Environmental Health Division, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul, MN 55164, USA
Tatiana Souza de Camargo
Department of Education and Curriculum, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90010-150, Brazil
Enrique Falceto de Barros
Department of Chemistry of Life and Health, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre 90010-150, Brazil
Sandeep Maharaj
School of Pharmacy, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Teddie Potter
School of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental changes are rapidly impacting the health of people worldwide, but many clinicians and other health professionals feel unprepared to deal with this burgeoning issue. During the Planetary Health Annual Meeting held in Boston in late 2022, the Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) working group hosted a workshop that highlighted the latest findings of clinicians’ attitudes towards climate change, connections with the related fields of lifestyle medicine and integrative health, lessons learned from implementing “one minute for the planet” in a rural Brazilian clinic, and the benefits of clinicians prescribing time in nature for their patients. This article ends with a few suggestions for healthcare providers to begin implementing planetary health into their professional practice.
