Director, Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College and Medical Consultant, Centre Scientifique de Monaco
Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, is a pediatrician and epidemiologist. For five decades, his research has examined the impacts on human health, especially children’s health, of hazardous exposures in the environment. In recent years, he has expanded this research to encompass planetary-scale threats to health – climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. From 2015-2018, Dr. Landrigan co-chaired the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, which found that pollution causes 9 million deaths per year. Since 2019, he has led the Monaco Commission on Human Health and Ocean Pollution. He is currently Chair of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health. He works closely with the World Health Organization and the UN Environment Programme. He is a member of the US National Academy of Medicine.