Samuel Myers Author & Editor

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.