749 - Planetary Health: Thinking About The Earth Crisis As A

749 - Planetary Health: Thinking About The Earth Crisis As A Humanitarian Crisis

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Humans are transforming, degrading, and altering Earth’s natural life support systems so profoundly that our actions have created an existential crisis. For Earth Day, Sam Myers, founding director of the Planetary Health Alliance and director of the brand new Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the concept of planetary health, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how the state of the earth affects the health of us all. Learn more: http://Planetaryhealthalliance.org https://planetaryhealth.jhu.edu/

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