Cambridge Planetary Health Seminar, Dr Renzo Guinto

This talk is hosted in collaboration with the PublicHealth@Cambridge Network at Cambridge Institute of Public Health and NHBE.

Advancing Human Health in the Era of Climate Change and Planetary Health: Lessons and Experiences from the Philippines

Renzo Guinto, MD DrPH | Chief Planetary Doctor, PH Lab, Philippines | Doctor of Public Health graduate, Harvard University, USA | Visiting Fellow, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

In recent years, planetary health has evolved not just as an emerging field of scientific inquiry but also as a novel policy framework, fresh ethical paradigm, and renewed basis for collective action that integrates both the health of people and the planet. Over the past century, human activities have grown economies, improved health, and enhanced the quality of life – at the expense of the world’s natural resources. Today, global environmental change – not just in the form of climate change but also biodiversity loss,…