What is Planetary Health?

Posted: August 13, 2025

NASA's Apollo 17 full-color photograph of earth, showing the black background of space and the African continent.

In April 2024, JHU launched the Johns Hopkins Institute for Planetary Health (JHIPH) to accelerate cross-university collaboration in addressing the degradation of Earth’s natural systems and its impacts on human health and well-being. Learn more about this bold interdisciplinary initiative and about how scientists, educators, researchers, and policy makers are collaborating to address the urgency of this moment and to advance solutions that safeguard health on our rapidly changing planet.