Researchers, policymakers, and community members gather to discuss three major sources of pollution and their health effects.
Samantha Bunke, PhD candidate and Living Lab Fellow at Stanford School of Engineering, delivers a lightning round talk on plastics and health to conference attendees.
Pollution kills more than 9 million people prematurely each year. Recently, over 140 researchers, educators, industry professionals, policymakers, and community members gathered at Stanford to discuss the health impacts of some of the most dangerous forms of pollution and devise solutions.
“[Sustainability] is arguably one of the defining challenges of the 21st century,” said Arun Majumdar, dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability,” during his opening remarks, emphasizing the need for an interdisciplinary approach to solving barriers to sustainability.
The conference, chaired by Stanford Human and Planetary Health Initiative leaders Desiree LaBeaud, MD, and Steve Luby, MD, was a collaboration among Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Doerr School of Sustainability, and School of Medicine. It centered around three major sources of pollution and their effects on health: wildfires, plastic, and the coal-fired industry.
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