We are at a time of considerable threat to human health as we go forward
Sir Andy Haines
Planetary Health:
UNDP Planetary Health
Towards a healthier world
The need for a global health ethic
Access to medicine and healthcare
The determinants of planetary health
Health as the pulse of the New Urban Agenda
We need a moral constitution for our planet's health
Taking the 'neglect' out of neglected global diseases
Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene era
The 2021 Lancet report on health and climate change
Planetary health: a new science for exceptional action
Human and planetary health: toward a common language
The global health community needs innovation and reform
Researchers find that Earth may be home to 1 trillion species
Framing planetary health: arguing for research centred science
WHO, governments and health agencies commit to advancing global health security
Overview health reports & atlases:
Human Cell Atlas
Bodily maps of emotion
Atlas of health and climate
Atlas of the Human Planet
The adaptation gap in health reports
International classification of disease
UNICEF state of the world's children report 2016
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
The Knowledge Portal on innovation and access to medicine
Recent trends in life expectancy across high income countries
A comprehensive assessment of universal health coverage in 111 countries
Global antimicrobial-resistance drivers: an ecological country level study at the human-animal interface
Systemic dimensions of health:
The era of personalized medicine
Plastics, fossil carbon and the heart
Combatting the sedentary workplace
Deciphering the genetics behind eating disorders
Nature really is good medicine. Science can explain why
Effects of intermitten fasting on health, aging and disease
Could inflammation be the cause of myriad chronic conditions
Universal sanitation underestimated in efforts to reduce child mortality
The end of inflammation? New approach could treat dozens of diseases
Sustainable discovery and development of antibiotics: a nonprofit approach?
Mechanisms underpinning the link between emotion, physical health and longetivity
2500 year old Pythagoras theorem helps to show when a patient has turned a corner
Pathogens: viruses & bacteria:
Our viral world
We are not alone
Ditch the term pathogen
Your home, your bacteria
How viruses shape ur world
Viruses explained in 9 images
How immune cells are activated
How to permanently end diseases
Pathogen genomics in public health
Viruses find a new way to hijack cells
Viruses have a secret, altruistic social life
Researchers strategize to outsmart bacteria
How bacteria sleep through antibiotic attacks
Our water pipes crawl with millions of bacteria
Viruses - you've heard the bad; here's the good
War between bacteria and phages benefits humans
Viruses can scatter their genes among cells and reassemble
Newly discovered antibiotic kills pathogens without resistance
Global monitoring of AMR based on metagenomic analysis of urban sewage
Bacteria in the human body are sharing genes, even across tissue boundaries
The antimicrobial resistance: urgent need for a planetary and ecosystem approach
Health, climate change & extreme weather events:
Climate crisis and health
The climate crisis and clinical practice
The effect of climate change on disease
Heat-induced heart attack risk on the rise
Is climate change affecting human health?
Managing the health effects of climate change
The imperative for climate action to protect health
Are algae blooms linked to Lou Gehrig's disease?
Climate change will widen the social and health gap
When a hurricane strikes, diseases know no borders
Climate change will make us sicker and lose work hours
The drought and public health - what are the connections?
2018: The Lancet countdown on health and climate change
Protecting the public and minimizing health effects from heat
Public health adaptation to climate change in OECD countries
Scientists warn of new health threat caused by global warming
Tackling climate change: the greatest opportunity for global health
We're melting the Arctic, and reviving deadly germs in the process
Researchers tackle link between climate change and public health
Adapting to health impacts of climate change: a study of UNFCCC
Health benefits far outweigh the costs of meeting climate change goals
Global disease outbreaks associated with the 2015-2016 El Nino event
Climate crisis could spread dengue fever through most of Southeast US
Extreme heat episodes and risk of preterm birth in California, 2005-2013
Large storms can flood aging sewer systems with harmful bacteria, viruses
The health and economic benefits of climate mitigation and pollution control
As Earth warms, the diseases that lie within permafrost become a bigger worry
Estimating the health-related costs of 10 climate-sensitive US events during 2012
Assets for health: linking vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to climate change
Systemic mapping of global research on climate and health: a machine learning review
Health & the environment:
The health benefits of trees
Health & environment co-benefits
Climate, pollution and children's health
Health in the global environmental agenda
Effects of environmental stressors on daily governance
More trees on your street means fewer health problems
Environment, health and wellbeing: a systemic approach
Health and environment data to be linked for the first time
Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes
Nature and mental health: an ecosystem service perspective
The evironmental footprint of healthcare: a global assesment
Planetary health as a laboratory for enhance evidence synthesis
Nature's contributions to human health: A missing link to human health care?
Human Exposome Project to decode how environmental factors damage health
Being surrounded by green space in childhood may improve mental health of adults
Preventing infectious diseases at the community level: an asset ecosystems approach
Forest conservation: a potential nutrition sensitive intervention in low & middle-income countries
Health and air pollution:
ADHD air pollution link
Wood-burning stoves - harmful or safe?
Even moderate air pollution can raise stroke risks
Toxic airborne pollutants linger long after the smoke clears
Exploration of the global burden of dementia attributable to PM2.5
Understanding air pollution from biomass burners used for heating
Study shows air emissions near fracking sites may pose health risk
Interaction between residential greenness and air pollution mortality
Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Exposure to air pollution during childhood and risk of developing schizophrenia
Negative air ions and their effects on human health and air quality improvements
New atmospheric compound tied to climate change and human health issues discovered
Global and regional trends in particulate air pollution and attributable health burden over the last 50 years
How climate change, environmental change, and development act as triggers for disease:
Allergy sufferers beware the next 100 years!
Effects of climate change on West Nile Virus
Is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
Climate conditions help forecast meningitis outbreaks
Infectious disease: the invisible danger of climate change
Sustainable development must account for pandemic risk
Deforestation is leading to mre infectious diseases in humans
Climate change leads to rapid emergence of infectious diseases
Climate change said affecting global spread of infectious disease
Climate change will boost animal meet-ups ... and viral outbreaks
Cholera-like disease 'piggybacking' on El Nino to reach new shores
Infectious diseases and climate change intersect with no simple answers
Impact of climate change on parasite infection depends on host immunity
The influence of global environmental change on infectious disease dynamics
Spatial scale modulates the strength of ecological processes driving disease distributions
Non-communicable diseases:
Measuring mortality from non-communicable diseases
Burden of non-communicable diseases from infectious causes in 2017: a modelling study
Parasitic infections:
A new way to diagnose malaria
Why snails kill 200,000 people every year
Unusual discovery leads to fascinating tuberculosis theory
How to diagnose systemic infections much more quickly and reliably
Pain management:
What we know about pain
30 small neurons join forces against pain
Combating the 'multi-dimensional beast' of chronic pain
Newly discovered organ may be lurking under your skin
New study provides key insights into aspirin's disease-fighting abilities Aspirin, take two
Hearing Loss:
World report on hearing
Amplifying the global issue of hearing loss
Global ROI and cost-effectiveness from WHO's modelling study
Oxygen & hypoxia:
Medical conditions and high-altitude travel
Elucidation of oxygen sensing mechanisms in human and animal cells
Circadian rythm, biological clocks & sleep:
Circadian rythms and metabolism
How circadian clocks differ from sleep
How the body's trillions of clocks keep time
The body's clock offers a rythmic target to viruses
The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life: the new sleep science
Mental illness:
Schizophrenia
Ecological grief & anxiety: the start of a healthy response to climate change
Aging:
World population demographics
Aging may be as old as life itself
Want to live longer? Influence your genes
Physics meets biology to help defeat aging
Semantic activity analytics for healthy aging
Aging: new study valdates longetivity pathway
A photographic treatment for people with dementia
Is aging inevitable? Not necessarily for sea urchins
Research identifies key genetic link in the biology of aging
Septic shock and the aging process: a molecular comparison
Predicting your age from your skin, mouth and gut microbiome
An aspirin a day of no benefit for fit and healthy elderly, study finds
Lifespan is increasing in people who live to 65, regadless of socio-economic factors
Health & sun:
Sun may determie life span at birth
Can solar events trigger birth defects on Earth?
Solar storms and the pineal gland - riding the power wave
Link between Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy and autism traits discovered
Researchers correlate incidences of rheumatoid arthritis and giant cell arteritis with solar cycles
Cancer:
Killing cancer with viruses
A 'key' to metastasis formation
Cancer treatment on a cellular level
What skin cancer & recancerous lesions look like
High radiation dose rates may improve cancer therapy
Researchers develop method to map cancer progression
Shape of tumor may affect whether cells can metastasize
Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision
New technology tracks carcinogens as they move through the body
Early cancer detection through fine-print mapping of blood vessel growth
Descent from ancient plough-using societies linked to higher male cancer risk
New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancert therapy
Global taskforce calls for research into everyday chemicals that may cause cancer
Estimate of incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in 2018: a worldwide analysis
Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2018: a worldwide incident analysis
Health Risk Factors:
Tackling urban risk
Water and sanitation in a post-Covid world
Risk reduction promise at World Water Forum
Sludge as new sentinel for human health risks
Risk communications strategies for the very worst of cases
Hidden tooth infections may predispose people to heart disease
Expert discovers simple method of dealing with harmful radioactive iodine
Quantitative risk assessment of human illness from exposure to marine beach sand
Association between maternal exposure to agriculture pesticides, autism in offsprings
Introduction of risk size in the determination of uncertainty factor UFl in health risk assessment
Superbugs:
What's next in the war on superbugs?
How to stop antibiotic- resistant superbug
Soap antimicrobial may damage liver and raise cancer risk, mouse study shows
Nanoparticles:
Are silver nonoparticles harmful?
Scientists trace nanoparticles from plants to catepillars
Nanoparticles from dietary supplement drinks are likely to reach environment
Radiation exposure:
Radiation Dose Chart
Radiation in Daily Life
The radiation dangers from flying
Radiation exposure and the body: what you should know
Concerns about climate change, health - skin cancer danger in ozone loss
Health in disasster events:
Health and disaster risk
Health aspects of disasters
DRR and Water, Sanitation, Health
Disaster reduction critical to HIV/AIDS reduction
Disaster Risk Management for Health - water, sanitation and hygiene
Heart problems increase substantially after an earthquake, new study finds
Statisticians using social media to track foodborne illness outbreaks and improve disaster response
The Human Microbiome:
Microbiomes in transition
The microbiome initiative
The American Gut Project
Why its time to map the microbiome
Communicating with bacteria of the gut
C-section babies are missing key microbes
Your gut health can affect the rest of your body
Microbes adapt to colonize different body parts
Uncovering uncultivated microbes in the human gut
The intestinal microbiota: a new ally for optimal growth
Gut bacteria's interactions with immune system mapped
Obesity-related gut bacteria higher in people in northern climes
Gut microbes' role in mammals' evolution starts to become clear
The story of how a worm turned ... into a bringer of medical miracles
Can your microbiome be genetically engineered to make you healthy?
How trillions of microbes affect every stage of our life - from birth to old age
Your microbiome may be giving you arthritis. How can we understand it better?
Skin exposure to narrow band UVB light modulates the human intestinal microbiome
Nutrition:
Vitamins and Minerals
Vitamin A Vitamin B1-B12 Vitamin C Vitamin D Vitamin E Vitamin K
Modelling & Mapping:
World population projections
Avoiding a cartography catastrophe
Mathematical models for emerging disease
Climate model to predict malaria outbreaks in India
Modeling of regional climate change effects on ground-level ozone and childhood asthma
The impact of global environmental change on vector-borne disease-risk: a modelling study
Scientists suggest a mathematical model for the selection of the optimal treatment of cancer
Modelling the effects of global climate change on Chikungunya transmission in the 21st century
Engineers use models to help resource-poor nations improve allocation of limited health care resources
Trade-offs: energy cost and health impact in a regional coupled energy–air quality model: the LEAQ model
Effects of agrochemical pollution on shistosomiasis transmission: a systemic review and modelling analysis
Technology and medicine:
Genetics:
Perfect genetic knowledge
Gene drives spead their wings
Human gene editing gets green light
How heathy is genetically modified soybean oil?
New clues to how Neanderthal genes affect your health
Analyzing genetic tree sheds new light on disease outbreaks
CRISPR makes it clear: the US needs a biology strategy, and fast
Molecular map reveals genetic origins of 21 autoimmune diseases
Geneticists are concerned transhumanists will use CRISPR on themselves
Precision medicine integrating whole-genome sequencing, comprehensive metabolomics, and imaging
Digital:
Smartphone medicine
Do-it-yourself sensors
How medicine will change with digital technology
How wearable computing is shaping digital health
Improving healthcare with interactive visualization
Computing infrastructure for global malaria eradication project
A look at how new tech is giving patients more control over their health
Smart phones could improve skin cancer detection in developing countries
Tracking physiomes and activity using wearable biosensors reveals useful health-related information
Satellites:
Using satellites to improve public health
Satellites help scientists track deadly parasites
Scientists combine satellite data, machine learning to map poverty
GIS:
GIS technology helps health care industry save lives
MRI:
Extermely high-resolution MRI
State of the art in Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Deep medical image computing in preventative and precision medicine
Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates
Stem Cells:
Stem cells in the treatment of disease
Other Tech in Medicine:
Xenotransplantation
Cold plasma for a safer world
The Cuban biotech revolution
Thermal microscopy of single cells
Subtracting gravity from Alzheimers
Unwrapping the many gifts of graphene
Cochlear implants and electronic hearing
A new weapon in the war against superbugs
Antarctic sponge extract can help kill MRSA
Risk of pulmonary embolism from ultrasound
Gauging blood hemoglobin with a photograph
2017 Nobel Prize in cryo-electron microscopy
3D-printed heart-on-a-chip with integrated sensors
An army of microrobots can wipe out dental plaque
How do powerful magnets react to the iron in our blood?
Exact receptor for DEET that repels mosquitos discovered
New sensor to detect tiny individual nanoparticles developed
Molecular nano-spies to make light work of disease detection
HERMES public health modeling software released for public use
Scientists speed up human tissue regeneration with supermolecule
New technique for rapidly killing bacteria using tiny gold discs and light
mHealth spectroscopy of blood hemoglobin with spectral super-resolution
Implantable 'neural dust' enables precise wireless recording of nerve activity
Tiny electronic device may allow doctors to peer inside the heart and its arteries
'Nanomotor lithography' answers call for affordable, simpler device manufacturing
Regional:
Asia:
Impacts of climate change on the ecology of dengue and its mosquito vector the Asian tiger mosquito
China:
Training manual on health and disaster preparedness in rural China
Inclusiveness of economic growth in China: what do population health outcomes tell us?
The affect of airpollution on deaths, disease burden and life expectancy across China provinces 1990-2017
Japan:
Short-term exposure to PM2.5 pollutants and cardiac arrest: Japan
South East Asia:
Impacts of flood on health: epidemiologic evidence from Hanoi, Vietnam
Toxic waste sites cause 'healthy years of life lost' for people living in India, Philippines and Indonesia
South Asia:
Indian air pollution: loaded dice
El Nino conditions in the Pacific precedes dengue fever epidemics in South Asia
North America:
Agenda 2020
US causes of death
Flint water: what's in that contaminated water?
US using biomimicry to detect outbreaks faster
US National Health Security Preparedness Index
Agricultural subsidies and the American obesity epidemic
US National status of cancer 1975-2014, featuring survival
Health benefits from large-scale ozone reduction in the USA
Why tick-borne diseases have reached epidemiv proportions
Mysterious disease rides on the winds across the Pacific Ocean
Nitrate in drinking water raises health concerns for rural Californians
Potential hotspot for avian flu transmission identified in Western Alaska
Methicillin-resistant MRSA detected at 4 US wastewater treatment plants
Declining air pollution levels continue to improve life expectancy in the US
The impacts of climate change on human health in the USA - a scientific assessment
New model of disease contagion ranks US airports in terms of their spreading influence
USA: Half of all children will be autistic by 2025, warns senior research scientists at MIT
Groundbreaking study quantifies health costs of climate change-related disasters in the US
Short-term exposure to low levels of air pollution linked with premature death among US seniors
Canada: Addressing the environmental, community and health impacts of resource development
DoD, HHS, DHS should use existing coordination mechanisms to improve their pandemic preparedness
A climate-based model predicts the spatial distribution of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in USA
Latin America:
Health and environmental co-benefits of city urban form in Latin America: an ecological study
Europe:
Health impacts of floods in Europe
EU: the cost of ignoring the warning signs
Netherlands: the uncertain health ipacts of climate change
Hazardous substances in Europe's fresh and marine waters
Declining trends of healthy life years expectancy (HLYE) in Europe
European Green Deal: a major opportunity for health improvement
Southern Europe's coming plagues: vector-borne neglected tropical diseases
Health emergency preparedness for imported cases of high consequence infectious diseases
Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a hhealth impact assessment study in 854 European cities
Systematic assessment of climate sensitivity of important human & domestic animal pathogens in Europe
Middle East:
Communicable diseases management in disasters: an analysis in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Africa:
Malaria deaths in Africa: 2000-2014
Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Sahara Africa
Burden of disease in francophone Africa, 1990-2017
A planetary health perspective on agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa
African response to climate change critical as risk of disease outbreaks grow
Drought-related cholera outbreaks in Africa and the implications for climate-change
Health initiatives:
Climate and Public Health: the MERIT initiative
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation - personal interview
Global consortium formed to educate leaders on climate and health