Lifestyle Interventions for Personal and Planetary Health

• Utgivningsdatum: 2027-05-04
• Mått: 178 x 254 x undefined mm
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Lifestyle Medicine
• Antal sidor: 432
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781041037347

• Samhällsmedicin och preventiv medicin
• Medicinska studiehandledningar och referensmaterial
• Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik
• Agronomi

Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM, is a physician, educator, and medical journalist whose work sits at the intersection of lifestyle medicine, climate change, and planetary health. She is dual board-certified in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine, and a Blue Zones Certified Physician through the Blue Zones–ACLM partnership. Dr. Pathak chairs the Global Sustainability Committee of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, where she led the development of the College's position statement on lifestyle medicine for personal and planetary health. She served on the National Academy of Medicine’s project committee for Communicating About Climate Change and Health, part of the NAM Climate Grand Challenge. Dr. Pathak is faculty for the Atlanta VA Medical Center's Quality Scholars Program, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, and a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. She is Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine at WebMD, where she hosts the WebMD Health Discovered podcast and is a regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections, where she reports on the effects of environmental and climate change on health for a public audience. She earned a BA in psychology and biology from Harvard University and her MD from Weill Cornell Medical College, with honors in community service. She completed her internal medicine primary care residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, then completed the VA Quality Scholars Fellowship Program and practiced primary care medicine within the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her scholarship and advocacy focus on evidence-based lifestyle medicine and the intersection of personal and planetary health. She has written peer-reviewed publications, textbook chapters, and articles for professional and public audiences. She is passionate about educating the public and health professionals about lifestyle medicine not only to protect individual health, but to improve community and planetary health. Dr. Pathak's work has always been inspired by her parents, Sva. Ramanaresh Pathak and Smt. Surekha Pathak. Her father died during the editing of this book; his memory continues to guide her, personally and professionally. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, Jaydeep, and their three daughters, Ishani, Kiran, and Vidya.Heidi Honegger Rogers, DNP, is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Nursing. Her work bridges leadership, education, health promotion and planetary health. Drawing on her training as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse, she brings a unique integrative perspective to our roles and responsibilities in promoting health and well-being for our patients and our communities. From 2018 to 2024, Heidi served as Director of Interprofessional Education for the UNM Health Sciences Center, where she led initiatives fostering student-led, collaborative learning across disciplines. Grounded in Planetary Health, her teaching emphasized systems thinking, equity, and understanding health through an ecosystem lens, modeling integrated, patient-centered care. Heidi leads Planetary Health projects with the UNM College of Nursing’s Center for Health Equity, Planetary Health and Preparedness, and serves on the advisory team for UNM's Accelerating Resilience Innovations in Drylands (ARID) Institute. Beyond UNM, she contributes to broader educational and professional networks as a board member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (2021 to 2025), co-leader of the Planetary Health Task Force for the American Holistic Nurses Association (2021 to present), and collaborator with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments and the Planetary Health Alliance, which includes co-editing their Planetary Health Curriculum Guidelines E Book in 2026. Through these communities of practice, she integrates environmental and climate considerations into curricula and community engagement, preparing the next generation of health care professionals to address the growing intersection of planetary health, healthcare systems leadership, and public health. Her scholarship and advocacy focus on climate change and health, equity and justice, nature connection, wellbeing, and interprofessional education. Heidi is committed to bringing a Planetary Health Lens into nursing and healthcare education, ensuring that future health professionals are equipped to address both individual and ecological wellbeing. She is also a facilitator with the Work That Reconnects and a certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, integrating experiential and nature-based learning into her educational practice.

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