Vision
Health is embracing the Interconnection within Nature and living in ways that permit all life to flourish now and for future generations.
Mission
The Center for Planetary Health and Environmental Justice at the School of Nursing will foster education of future Planetary Health leaders; Planetary Health practice; innovative research and scholarship that includes both mitigation and adaptation; sustainable and equitable health care practices; and provide the thought leadership and transdisciplinary partnerships to restore Planetary Health.
Sustainment of the Center
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Core values
- Interconnection within Nature
- Humility and commitment to restoring the Earth’s natural systems damaged by human behaviors
- Transdisciplinarity
- Systems thinking and complexity
- Diversity, equity, inclusivity, and justice
- Decisions based on the well-being of future generations
- Partnership social model rather than hierarchies of domination
- Solidarity
- Solution and action oriented
Objectives
- Nursing for Planetary Health: We will promote and foster a shared commitment to Nursing for Planetary Health. This means working to ensure that Planetary Health is threaded through our research and scholarship; curriculum and teaching; our advocacy and policies; and our practice and leadership.
- Commitment to each other: In partnership with the School of Nursing Planetary Health Committee, we will foster a culture where all students. staff, and faculty are invited to be part of a Planetary Health Community of Practice.
- Professional Development: We will decolonize our minds and Indigenize our thinking, teaching, and research to support a strong foundation for Planetary Health.
- Research and Scholarship: Our researchers will invest in the science of transdisciplinary solutions for climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and all other environmental determinants of health.
- Engaging with communities: We will prioritize supporting the health and well-being of the people and communities most severely impacted by human-caused disruptions of the Earth's natural systems.