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The Earth, Brain, Health Commission: how to preserve mental health in a changing environment

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Announced in this Comment and in collaboration with Nature Mental Health is the convening of the Earth Brain Health Commission, addressing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches to mitigating environment-related mental health harms and promoting wellbeing.

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This work was supported by The European Union-funded Horizon Europe project environMENTAL (101057429) and co-funding from UK Research and Innovation under the UK Government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee (10041392, 10038599) and the National Key R&D Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST 2023YFE0199700).

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  1. Centre for Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine (PONS), Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Gunter Schumann

  2. Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS), Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Gunter Schumann

  3. Met Office, Exeter, UK

    Rosa Barciela

  4. Centre for Addiction Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India

    Vivek Benegal

  5. The Kavli Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Amy Bernard

  6. Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK

    Sylvane Desrivieres

  7. Institute for Science and Technology of Brain-inspired Intelligence (ISTBI), Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Jianfeng Feng

  8. President’s Office, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Peng Gong

  9. Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Andreas Heinz

  10. Africa Health Research Institute, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa

    Xanthe Hunt

  11. President’s Office, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Li Jin

  12. Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) and Department of Geography, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany

    Jürg Luterbacher

  13. Donders Institute, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Andre Marquand

  14. Central Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg

  15. World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

    Jerome Salomon

  16. Concentris Research Management, Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

    Ameli Schwalber

  17. Google, Mountain View, CA, USA

    Shravya Shetty

  18. School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Bernd Stahl

  19. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Paul Thompson

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Schumann, G., Barciela, R., Benegal, V. et al. The Earth, Brain, Health Commission: how to preserve mental health in a changing environment. Nat. Mental Health 2, 1121–1123 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-024-00314-1

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