Announcing the Minderoo - Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health

Affiliations

¹ Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
² Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, MC.
³ Minderoo Foundation, Perth, WA, Australia.
⁴ Vice Provost for Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
⁵ Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁶ Beyond Plastics, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA.
⁷ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
⁸ University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁹ United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰ Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria.
¹¹ University of Massachusetts Amherst, US.
¹² Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA.
¹³ International Marine Litter Research Unit, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
¹⁴ Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Technology and Society Laboratory, Gallen, Switzerland.
¹⁵ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Australia.

Editorial

Philip J Landrigan et al. Ann Glob Health. 2022.

. 2022 Aug 25;88(1):73.

doi: 10.5334/aogh.3916. eCollection 2022.

¹ Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
² Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Monaco, MC.
³ Minderoo Foundation, Perth, WA, Australia.
⁴ Vice Provost for Research, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
⁵ Economics Department, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
⁶ Beyond Plastics, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA.
⁷ Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA.
⁸ University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
⁹ United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
¹⁰ Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, Lagos, Nigeria.
¹¹ University of Massachusetts Amherst, US.
¹² Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA.
¹³ International Marine Litter Research Unit, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
¹⁴ Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Technology and Society Laboratory, Gallen, Switzerland.
¹⁵ School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Australia.

No abstract available

Keywords: environmental health; human health; microplastics; ocean health; plastic life cycle; plastic pollution.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have no competing interests to declare.

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