PHA is building a global planetary health community that crosses sectors, disciplines, generations, and geographies. To this end, the PHA is committed to expanding its membership and facilitating PHA regional hubs around the world. Independently led PHA regional hubs function as locally rooted communities of practice, stitching together PHA members within geographic clusters to collaboratively advance planetary health research, education, policy, and outreach pertinent to specific local contexts.

As momentum in planetary health continues to build around the world, PHA members have increasingly expressed interest in:

There is increasing demand among the planetary health community for intra and inter-regional collaboration. To expand capacity, the PHA has been working since 2019 with emergent leaders and Alliance Members to develop PHA Regional Hubs 2.0! Regional hubs will develop their own governance structure, strategy, and membership; hubs may even elect to create a "branch" to further regionalize. The PHA will facilitate inter-hub networking and lend ad hoc support as desired. Learn more about PHA Regional Hubs 2.0 in the Terms of Reference (TOR) document and at the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting!

All individuals and organizations are welcome to join as many hubs as are relevant to your work and identity. The PHA generally refers to the regionalization methodology presented by the United Nations Statistics Division; however, we encourage all regional hub participants to self-identify into a regional hub at their own discretion of geographic and cultural relevance. For suggestions on which Hub to join based on country, please refer to this guide.

Planetary health has no borders; the regionalization of countries is primarily for programmatic convenience and does not imply any opinion whatsoever on the part of the PHA concerning the legal status or legitimacy of any country, territory, city, community, or area, or concerning the borders, boundaries, governance, or sovereignty of such regions. We respect and value the self-identification of all individuals and organizations.