The ERIA Healthcare Unit is raising its voice alongside growing global concerns about the detrimental impacts of plastics and their particles on public health systems. As awareness increases around the links between plastic consumption and human health, the Regional Knowledge Centre is proud to spotlight the important contributions of ERIA’s health-focused researchers working across ASEAN and the broader Asia-Pacific region. Dr Achmad Solikhin, Ms Rahayu Susanti, Ms Mirrah Nabighah, Dr Yasuyuki Mitsuhashi, and Dr Manami Uechi recently co-authored a Policy Brief addressing this urgent issue.
The paper underscores that ASEAN Member States (AMS) – particularly five of them – are contributing to a growing body of research on the effects of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) on human, animal, and environmental health. With plastic particles infiltrating not only ecosystems, but also food chains, bloodstreams, and body tissues, the authors call on all AMS to urgently adopt a more holistic and coordinated response to protect environmental and public health.
‘By placing the One Health approach at the centre of MNP research, ASEAN Member States can benefit from multidisciplinary insights into the health risks, trade-offs, co-benefits, and opportunities that support equitable and action-oriented responses to this growing environmental and public health challenge,’ urged the authors.
To read the full Policy Brief, visit: The Double Exposure of Health Impacts and Micro/Nanoplastic Hazards in the Perspective of ASEAN One Health Studies
Programme Manager
The ERIA Healthcare Unit is raising its voice alongside growing global concerns about the detrimental impacts of plastics and their particles on public health systems. As awareness increases around the links between plastic consumption and human health, the Regional Knowledge Centre is proud to spotlight the important contributions of ERIA’s health-focused researchers working across ASEAN and the broader Asia-Pacific region. Dr Achmad Solikhin, Ms Rahayu Susanti, Ms Mirrah Nabighah, Dr Yasuyuki Mitsuhashi, and Dr Manami Uechi recently co-authored a Policy Brief addressing this urgent issue.
The paper underscores that ASEAN Member States (AMS) – particularly five of them – are contributing to a growing body of research on the effects of micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) on human, animal, and environmental health. With plastic particles infiltrating not only ecosystems, but also food chains, bloodstreams, and body tissues, the authors call on all AMS to urgently adopt a more holistic and coordinated response to protect environmental and public health.
‘By placing the One Health approach at the centre of MNP research, ASEAN Member States can benefit from multidisciplinary insights into the health risks, trade-offs, co-benefits, and opportunities that support equitable and action-oriented responses to this growing environmental and public health challenge,’ urged the authors.
To read the full Policy Brief, visit: The Double Exposure of Health Impacts and Micro/Nanoplastic Hazards in the Perspective of ASEAN One Health Studies
Programme Manager
