Samuel Myers, MD, MPH is a Principle Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Planetary Health Alliance. Dr. Myers serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet-Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Planetary Health and the Lancet Commission on Arctic health. He was the inaugural recipient of the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in 2018 for research quantifying the impacts of environmental change on human nutrition. Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is head of the Our Plant, Our Health initiative at the Wellcome Trust. He was previously Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and Special Assistant to the Director for Climate Change and Health, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"A practical and useful handbook for planetary health education....The format of the book is engaging, with readable text complemented by an interesting mix of figures, tables, and photographs... The author roster is impressive… [it] provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of planetary health...[and] is an important book [and] an excellent primer... I like it, and hope it is widely read. It certainly is a timely text for burgeoning university courses in planetary health. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves should be on the reading list of all health professionals because they have an important part to play as we strive for planetary health."

Samuel Myers, MD, MPH is a Principle Research Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Planetary Health Alliance. Dr. Myers serves as a Commissioner on the Lancet-Rockefeller Foundation Commission on Planetary Health and the Lancet Commission on Arctic health. He was the inaugural recipient of the Arrell Global Food Innovation Award in 2018 for research quantifying the impacts of environmental change on human nutrition. Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH is head of the Our Plant, Our Health initiative at the Wellcome Trust. He was previously Dean and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health, and Director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and Special Assistant to the Director for Climate Change and Health, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"A practical and useful handbook for planetary health education....The format of the book is engaging, with readable text complemented by an interesting mix of figures, tables, and photographs... The author roster is impressive… [it] provides a comprehensive and illuminating overview of planetary health...[and] is an important book [and] an excellent primer... I like it, and hope it is widely read. It certainly is a timely text for burgeoning university courses in planetary health. Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves should be on the reading list of all health professionals because they have an important part to play as we strive for planetary health."