Vaccines for a sustainable planet
Simone Pecetta, Arindam Nandi, Charlie Weller, Vanessa Harris, Helen A. Fletcher, Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Mariagrazia Pizza, David Salisbury, Richard Moxon, Steve Black, David E. Bloom, Rino Rappuoli
Abstract
The health of the planet is one objective of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. Vaccines can affect not only human health but also planet health by reducing poverty, preserving microbial diversity, reducing antimicrobial resistance, and preventing an increase in pandemics that is fueled partly by climate change.
Topics & Concepts
PlanetPandemicHuman healthClimate changeSustainable developmentGlobal healthEnvironmental planningNatural resource economicsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)AstrobiologyBusinessEconomic growthEnvironmental healthMedicineGeographyBiologyHealth careDiseaseInfectious disease (medical specialty)EcologyEconomicsAstrophysicsPhysicsPathologyZoonotic diseases and public healthGlobal Maternal and Child HealthChild Nutrition and Water Access