Howard Frumkin, professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is a physician-epidemiologist specializing in environmental health.  His career has focused on health aspects of climate change, the built environment, nature contact, and sustainability, within the framework of Planetary Health.  He has served as Director of the CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health, as Dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health, as head of the “Our Planet, Our Health” initiative at the Wellcome Trust, and as Senior Vice President of Trust for Public Land.  He is author or co-author of over 300 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his ten books include Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-Being, and Sustainability (2nd Edition, 2022), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (3rd Edition, 2016), Planetary Health: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves (2020), and Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene (2021).  He is an elected member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Medicine, and is a Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M University.  He was educated at Brown (A.B.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.), and Harvard (M.P.H. and Dr.P.H.).