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Real-world Decision Making for Planetary Health

In follow-up to their seminal Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission report on planetary health, Dr. Steven Osofsky and Dr. Montira Pongsiri, faculty affiliated with Cornell’s Master of Public Health Program, now describe how to pull Planetary Health into practice. “The use of Health Impact Assessments (HIA) can be the bridge to the planetary health paradigm becoming a go-to tool for improved real-world decision-making at a range of scales”. Read more about “Operationalising planetary health as a game-changing paradigm: health impact assessments are key” in The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 2, Number 2, e54-e55.