Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity

Drs. Eric Chivian and E.O. Wilson discuss Sustaining Life, the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.

Lecture and book signing by Drs. Eric Chivian and E.O. Wilson.

Sustaining Life (Oxford University Press) is the first book to examine the full range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.

Lead editor and author Eric Chivian, Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, and Professor Wilson, who wrote the book’s forward, will discuss the importance of biodiversity to human health—from medicines, biomedical research, infectious diseases, and food production to the ecosystem services that support life on Earth.