Over the last few months of our ‘Getting to know PLOS Mental Health‘ series, we have heard from our Section Editors Gloria Wong (Community Mental Health), Vania Martinez (Epidemiology of Mental Health), Luke Beardon (Neurodiversity and Mental Health) and Sandersan Onie (Lived Experience and Advocacy).
Yet, our understanding of the various ways that climate change impacts mental health, and the mechanisms by which these impacts are conveyed, is far less advanced than what we know about impacts on physical health, for example.
Joining PLOS Mental Health as a Section Editor presented me with a wonderful opportunity to help curate, and present the world with, some of the exciting research going on in climate mental health.
My vision for the PLOS Mental Health Environmental Impacts section is to be an outlet for scholarship that sets high ethical and intellectual standards for the field.
I would like the Environmental Impacts section of PLOS Mental Health to receive submissions that incorporate critical, decolonial, and anti-colonial perspectives; showcase empirical techniques that trouble and disrupt the status quo…Check out the latest content from PLOS Mental Health.

Getting to know PLOS Mental Health: Environmental Impacts