The ‘Planetary Health Learning Garden’ model offers an innovative, and collaborative approach to planetary health workforce development that supports learners from across disciplines, sectors and professionals contexts to promote health in a rapidly changing world, while grounding their work in Indigenous knowledges, cultural safety, and systems thinking. Co-led by Wii Estes Sandra Martin Harris (Witsuwit’en Nation of the Likhsilyu, Little Frog Clan and UNBC PhD Candidate) and Margot Parkes (Professor, UNBC), the Learning Garden is supported by founding partners UNBC, the Public Health Association of BC (PHABC), and the Rural Coordinating Centre of BC (RCCbc), reflecting a shared goal to strengthen capacity for health professionals  to honor Indigenous wisdom and strengthen our collective capacity to engage with and address complex planetary health challenges.

Informed by past experiences, collaborations, and publications of our planning team, our 2024 – 2025 Learning Garden ‘seasonal round’ has served as a proof of concept to inform and motivate our ongoing efforts to progress planetary health workforce development.

We encourage you to return to this page to find updates, resources and reflections as well as to learn more about our efforts to connect and amplify planetary health workforce development, by supporting ongoing seasonal rounds of learning with new cohorts, developing a ‘seed-library’ of self-directed study options in partnership with the Public Health Association of BC, as well as expanding opportunities for Indigenous-led, strength-based, land-based learning for planetary health.

We were pleased to share this work as a poster at the Planetary Health Annual Meeting conference in Rotterdam, Oct 6-10, 2025