The Lancet Planetary Health

🌍 Seven principles for a critical transdisciplinary approach to planetary health We are delighted to share the publication in The Lancet Planetary Health, a landmark paper for JHU-UPF Public Policy Center and GREDS-EMCONET and a collective statement of how we believe transdisciplinary research should be understood and practised. The multiple, interconnected crises affecting human and planetary health cannot be adequately understood through fragmented disciplinary perspectives alone. But transdisciplinarity must mean more than bringing different disciplines together. It requires us to critically examine how knowledge is produced, whose knowledge counts, how power shapes research agendas, and whether our work contributes to addressing the structural drivers of health inequities and ecological degradation. In this piece, we put forward seven principles for a critically engaged transdisciplinarity, arguing for an approach that is not merely methodological, but also epistemological, political, and oriented towards social transformation. Our ambition is to help move planetary health research beyond disciplinary integration towards a more reflexive, inclusive, and transformative practice; one capable of engaging seriously with complexity, structural inequalities, and the urgent need for systemic change. 👏 A heartfelt thank you to all my colleagues for the intellectual exchange, critical discussions, and collective effort behind this work: Joan Benach, Lucinda Cash-Gibson, PhD, Christos Zografos, Laila Vivas, Joana Morrison, ELIANA MARTINEZ HERRERA, Ornella Moreno-Mattar, Natalia Tumas, Mariana Gutiérrez-Zamora Navarro, Juan Manuel Pericàs, and Carles Muntaner. We hope this contribution stimulates debate about not only what planetary health research should study, but also how, with whom, and ultimately for what purpose. 📖 Read the paper in The Lancet Planetary Health: https://lnkd.in/e4v_ZVuh #PlanetaryHealth #Transdisciplinarity #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #PoliticalEconomy #PublicHealth #Sustainability Planetary Health Alliance Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health

My first PhD paper is officially published in The Lancet Planetary Health! “Navigating global health futures under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways” https://lnkd.in/g-nWN25M The SSPs are widely used to explore how our societies might change in the future, but what do these different futures mean for health? In this paper, we developed health narrative extensions for all five SSPs, exploring how socioeconomic, demographic, population health, and health-system drivers could shape future health risks. One of the key messages is that the health futures we face are not predetermined. Different pathways could lead to vastly different health outcomes, with governance, health-system capacity, resources, equity, and cross-sectoral factors such as water and energy playing critical roles. This work will shape future steps to downscale this global narrative to country-level context in a range of settings, keep an eye on this space. I’m incredibly proud of this one, and grateful to have worked with such generous and insightful co-authors who shaped this piece. I have tried to tag them all but with 63 global experts we will see if LinkedIn will let me tag everyone 😀 One PhD paper down! Kristie L Ebi, Marina Andrijevic, Jeremy Hess, Shonali Pachauri, Sam Sellers, Bas van Ruijven, Fatimah Ahamad, Christofer Åström, Kristin Aunan, Peng Bi, Robbert Biesbroek, Josephine Borghi, Kathryn Bowen, Cyril Caminade, Timothy R Carter, Luiz Augusto Cassanha Galvao, Guéladio Cissé, Shouro Dasgupta, PhD, Alex de Sherbinin, PhD, Asya Dimitrova, Ph.D. , Neal Fann, Katja Frieler, Jan Fuglestvedt, Santu Ghosh, GEORGIANA GORDON-STRACHAN, Yuming Guo, Sarath Guttikunda, Jimmy Hilly, Roman Hoffmann, Samir KC , Gregor Kiesewetter, Ho Kim, Brama Gnenefan Kone, Whanhee Lee, Anna Lipsanen, Simon Lloyd, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Shuaib Lwasa , Glenn McGregor, Robert McLeman, Andy Morse, Kris Murray, Nicholas Ogden, Yasna Palmeiro Silva, anand patwardhan, Helen Pineo, Poornima Prabhakaran, Keywan Riahi, Sadie Ryan, Vanessa Schweizer, Jan Semenza, Sokhna Thiam, Edmond Totin, Roberto Valdivia, Detlef Van Vuuren

In the latest issue of The Lancet Planetary Health https://lnkd.in/e5pzAtpU ▪️ Climate-driven yield changes threaten affordability of healthy diets ▪️ Mortality and economic costs of wildfire air pollution ▪️ Climate hazards and health system resilience in China ▪️ Climate change and animal infectious diseases Plus much more research, opinion, and comment 📖

For the last 20 years, I have been driven by the question of how to reduce welfare state's dependence on economic growth, which is often bad for environment and not always good for people. Today, I am closer to the answer, and would be happy to see the transformation in practice. In our new semi-systematic review in The Lancet Planetary Health https://lnkd.in/dXyabEwQ Milena Büchs, Thomas Webb, Dario Leoni and I offer an overview of drivers of welfare state growth dependence and corresponding policies that the literature identifies. We found that key drivers include the growth dependence of employment and related welfare funds, rent extraction and for-profit provisioning, increasing inequality, ageing societies, political power of vested interests, and environmental impacts. Any news? Corresponding policy responses include maintaining employment without growth, using less growth dependent revenues, restricting rent seeking and political power of vested interests, implementing predistributive and redistributive policies, implementing preventive health-care approaches, and mitigating climate change. How about starting from here? Our research has been funded by the MAPS (Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability) project. Thanks to MAPS and Milena <3

📢 In our new semi-systematic review in the The Lancet Planetary Health https://lnkd.in/eju4t2Th Tuuli Hirvilammi, Thomas Webb, Dario Leoni and I offer a first systematic overview of drivers of welfare state growth dependence and corresponding policies that the literature identifies. Key drivers include the growth dependence of employment and related welfare funds, rent extraction and for-profit provisioning, increasing inequality, ageing societies, political power of vested interests, and environmental impacts. Corresponding policy responses include maintaining employment without growth, using less growth dependent revenues, restricting rent seeking and political power of vested interests, implementing predistributive and redistributive policies, implementing preventive health-care approaches, and mitigating climate change. We also briefly discuss whether welfare state growth dependency can be fully addressed within capitalist economies. The research has been funded by the MAPS (Models, Assessment, and Policies for Sustainability) project. Two of our other recent papers discuss related issues in more detail: 1) Financing sustainable welfare https://lnkd.in/e8QVC3rp and 2) Wealth taxes for an eco-social transition https://lnkd.in/epakgWC4 Questions and comments very welcome :-)

In the latest issue of The Lancet Planetary Health https://lnkd.in/gSpkjNjd ▪️ Human heat tolerance in a warming, aging world ▪️ Food system pressures on crossing future planetary boundaries ▪️ Urban woodland improvements and mental health in Scotland ▪️ Reviewing TL-Planet's record on integrating Indigenous knowledge ▪️ A review of economic growth dependence of welfare states ▪️ Ecological-Collective flourishing: advancing wellbeing for all life ▪️ GHEMMS checklist: modelling climate mitigation and health cobenefits ▪️ Advancing environmental sustainability measures in health care ▪️ Building stronger wildlife health surveillance systems globally Plus the latest comment, opinion, and news from the world of planetary health!

***Indigenous Health News Feature*** Technical and policy reflections on #UNPFII25 are out now in the The Lancet Planetary Health. The 25th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (April 2026) was a master class on global #publichealth for everyone, worldwide. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gqMURtV7 📍 This article is for *anyone* working in the United Nations multilateral system - especially those still unaware of transdisciplinary approaches to governance and the interconnection between #UNPFII, multilateral environmental agreements and the World Health Assembly. 📍 This article is for health professionals - especially those trained to define "health" just one-dimensionally. 🌏 Most importantly, this article is for #IndigenousPeoples - and is aimed to judiciously amplify collective voices and contribute to the structural shifts needed to apply your wisdom in the most coherent way possible. With thanks to Geoffrey Roth, Alejandro Bermúdez-del-Villar, Nicole Redvers and Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance (IDHA). This article was a complete honor to write, and in honor of those who came before us. #planetaryhealth #sb8j Q"apaj Conde Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo Jacqueline Evans Ojistoh Horn Professor Anne Poelina Cicilia Wangari Githaiga Gervais Muderhwa Myrle Ballard, PhD Andrea Isabel Aguilar Ferro Karyn Choy Ramiro Batzin Jadder M. Lewis Ruth Goldstein Sione Tu'itahi Fany Beatriz Ramos Quispe Emma Rawson-Te Patu Jeremy Spoon María Jesús Ovalle Barros Resson Kantai DuffDr Amba-Rose Atkinson Ann Marie Chischilly Jennifer Tauli Corpuz Olivier Rukundo Ramson Karmushu Dr. Albert K. Barume Intu Boedhihartono Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

***Indigenous Health News Feature*** Technical and policy reflections on #UNPFII25 are out now in the The Lancet Planetary Health. The 25th session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (April 2026) was a master class on global #publichealth for everyone, worldwide. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gqMURtV7 📍 This article is for *anyone* working in the United Nations multilateral system - especially those still unaware of transdisciplinary approaches to governance and the interconnection between #UNPFII, multilateral environmental agreements and the World Health Assembly. 📍 This article is for health professionals - especially those trained to define "health" just one-dimensionally. 🌏 Most importantly, this article is for #IndigenousPeoples - and is aimed to judiciously amplify collective voices and contribute to the structural shifts needed to apply your wisdom in the most coherent way possible. With thanks to Geoffrey Roth, Alejandro Bermúdez-del-Villar, Nicole Redvers and Indigenous Determinants of Health Alliance (IDHA). This article was a complete honor to write, and in honor of those who came before us. #planetaryhealth #sb8j Q"apaj Conde Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo Jacqueline Evans Ojistoh Horn Professor Anne Poelina Cicilia Wangari Githaiga Gervais Muderhwa Myrle Ballard, PhD Andrea Isabel Aguilar Ferro Karyn Choy Ramiro Batzin Jadder M. Lewis Ruth Goldstein Sione Tu'itahi Fany Beatriz Ramos Quispe Emma Rawson-Te Patu Jeremy Spoon María Jesús Ovalle Barros Resson Kantai DuffDr Amba-Rose Atkinson Ann Marie Chischilly Jennifer Tauli Corpuz Olivier Rukundo Ramson Karmushu Dr. Albert K. Barume Intu Boedhihartono Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

I am happy to share that our new paper got published in The Lancet Planetary Health! In this study we assess how food system transformation and climate mitigation scenarios impact planetary boundaries at two scales: global and local. Results show no trade-offs between a food system transformation and climate mitigation at the global scale. Local trade-offs do emerge. A shift towards more sustainable diets (from the EAT-Lancet Commission 2.0) leads to the largest reductions in land-system change and biosphere integrity transgressions. Climate mitigation drives most of the improvements in freshwater change, climate change and aerosol loading. A multiscale approach matters: regional hotspots and trade-offs remain hidden at the global scale. Thanks to all co-authors: Jonathan Doelman Hester Biemans Astrid Bos Arthur Beusen Vassilis Daioglou Alexandra Marques Meike Scherrenberg Lena Schulte-Uebbing Sofie te Wierik Willem-Jan van Zeist Elke Stehfest Detlef Van Vuuren Open access: https://lnkd.in/dyDKvQYa