• Stephen Hinchliffe, Lenore Manderson, and Martin Moore.
• College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. Electronic address: stephen.hinchliffe@exeter.ac.uk.
• Lancet Planet Health. 2021 Apr 1; 5 (4): e230-e236.

AbstractCOVID-19 is a sign of a global malaise. The pandemic is an outcome of what we term a planetary dysbiosis, for which underlining drivers include inequality and the exploitation and extraction of human and non-human labours. The implication is that the usual fixes to outbreaks of infectious diseases (ie, surveillance, pharmaceutical measures, and non-pharmaceutical measures) will be insufficient without a thorough reappraisal of and investment in planetary health. Given the heterogeneity and diversity of environments and populations, we envisage these actions as a matter for the generation of new kinds of public, requiring widespread and multiple forms of engagement to generate lasting solutions. We use and extend the concept of healthy publics to suggest a movement that can start to reclaim planetary health as a collective and ongoing issue.Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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