Education and Awareness Raising

To raise awareness on the vital linkages between biodiversity and health in the context of global changes, on the International Day for Biodiversity, on 22 May 2018, the World Health Organization and the Convention on Biological Diversity, with a number of partners launched a new educational module on biodiversity and health jointly prepared for a Massive Open Online Course on “Global Health at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Interface” which was produced in partnership with the University of Geneva, Institute Pasteur and its global network.

The online course is offered free of charge and is the first open and free online course that addresses One Health, Ecohealth and Planetary Health approaches.

See the MOOC teaser here.

Register for for the free course here.

Short Videos

• WHO, PHE statement on the importance of biodiversity to human health, IUCN World Parks Congress

• FAO Video on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

• WHO video on health and environment

• IPBES, Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Well-Being

GLOBAL

WHO PREVENTING DISEASE THROUGH HEALTHY ENVIRONMENTS: a global assessment of the burden of disease from environmental risks

• Fact sheets based on the Global Assessment updated in 2016. Available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish

2015 Report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on PLANETARY HEALTH

• Fact Sheets on Planetary Health are available in English and Chinese

THEMATIC

Health Security

• The Role of Environment in One Health and National Health Security in the context of the USAID PREDICT and Preparedness and Response Projects

Equity and Urban Health

• The Nature for Health and Equity Fact Sheet by the Institute for European Environmental Policy provides a summary of how lack of access to natural environments, particularly in urban areas, contributes to health inequalities in Europe.
  

BIODIVERSITY & HEALTH

*CBD & WHO Fact Sheets on biodiversity and health

• Ecosystem Services for Human Health (2013)

• Fact Sheet on Health and Biodiversity (2011)

Note: This page is still under construction and will be updated soon.

Additional resources identified by partners of the UN Biodiversity Convention's joint work programme on biodiversity and health with the World Health Organization will be added to this page regularly.