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Formerly the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard’s Center for the Environment (1996-2018). The re-oriented organization translates "innovative research from faculty and students across the Harvard T.H....
Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
Mission: protect human health by protecting the planet, by bringing health expertise to environmental issues in Canada in five campaigns: Pesticides, Energy and Climate Change, Organics, Green Health Care, and...
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC seeks to “protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. Whether diseases start at home or abroad, are chronic or acute, curable or preventable,...
EcoHealth Alliance
It is an international environmental “health nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease.” Thus, its specialized scientists conduct “field research and develop tools...
Environmental Health Perspectives
The open access "monthly journal of environmental health research and news published with support from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences." It publishes "high-quality original research, reviews, and commentaries...
Green Facts
Is a “non-profit project founded that aims to provide non-specialists with clear and strictly factual summaries of complex scientific consensus reports on health, the environment and sustainable development.” To this...
Health and Environment Alliance
Is a nonprofit organization “addressing how the environment affects human health in the European Union (EU) and beyond.” It works to “shape laws and policies that promote planetary and human...
Health Care Without Harm
An “international nongovernmental organization that works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability, and a leader in the global...
International Society of Doctors for the Environment
Is an "independent, non-profit, non-governmental, environmental organization of medical doctors working to defend the environment both locally and globally." It strives to "prevent numerous illnesses, ensure the necessary conditions for...
Population Health Research Institute
Is an international health research institute with a “multidisciplinary team of world-class scientists and research support teams.” It examines ”biological and genetic determinants of health, as well as social, environmental...
Robert, Karl-Henrik
Karl-Henrik Robert (b.1947) is a Swedish cancer scientist and founder of The Natural Step in 1989, a non-profit with offices in 12 countries and associates in >50 countries. TNS led...
World Health Organization (WHO)
Major UN agency concerned with disease and public health promotion; WHO operates 150 country offices in six different regions, researching and working on communicable diseases, noncommunicable diseases, environmental health, lifestyles,...