Planetary Health at Brown

Catalyzing strengths in interdisciplinary research, educational innovation, and health care leadership, faculty and students across the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University are confronting the challenge of global environmental change and and its impact on human health.

Safeguarding the Health of People and Planet

Throughout Brown University’s Division of Biology and Medicine, faculty and students are coming together to ensure students in all cohorts, from the undergraduate college to the medical school, have access to planetary health education.

Students across the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown are learning how disruptions to Earth's natural systems impact human health.
Students and faculty across the Division of Biology and Medicine are agents of change in building awareness of planetary health at Brown and beyond.
Planetary health research and scholarship in the Division of Biology and Medicine spans institutions and intersects many fields of inquiry, from public health to disease ecology, conservation biology, emergency medicine, psychiatry, and beyond.