MEET THE PURE EARTH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
This Group of Innovators Will Help Us Accelerate Action On The Global Pollution Crisis
We are proud to announce that some of the world’s top leaders in health, government, business, academia, and the arts have joined the newly-formed Pure Earth Leadership Council — a key group of innovative thinkers and game changers that will work to accelerate action on the global pollution crisis.
We are so grateful for the dedication of each and every member of the Leadership Council who
support our work and understand what it takes to push boundaries and get results. They will be helping us raise resources and awareness, advance evidenced-based solutions, needed research, and more.
The Pure Earth Leadership Council includes:
- David Hunter, MBBS, MPH, ScD, Vincent L. Gregory Professor in Cancer Prevention, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
- Philip Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, Dean for Global Health, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Blanca Li, Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker
- Keith Martin, MD, PC, Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), and Member of Parliament, Canada (1993-2011).
- Greg Medcraft, Chairman, Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Dev Patel, Academy Award nominated actor
- Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament, India
- Martin Roscheisen, CEO, Diamond Foundry, Inc.
- Carlos Salinas, Former President, Mexico
Our mission is to identify and clean up the poorest communities throughout the developing world, where high concentrations of toxins have devastating health effects. Pure Earth devises
cleanup strategies, empowers local champions, and secures support from national and international partnerships. Cleaning up one community at a time brings us closer to a Pure Earth.