OUR MISSION

The Pittsburgh Platform is a convening space where all who share a passion for achieving environmental health equity can gather together to develop ideas and initiatives.

We define environmental health equity as the equal right for everyone to be able to live in a healthy environment.  We seek to align public health and environmental justice aspirations in ways that promote sustaining, transformational change in urban planning and design. Our intent is to communicate an alternative positive vision to business-as-usual scenarios, articulating the best examples for achieving environmental health equity that can be applied to local circumstances. 

OUR PURPOSE

The purpose of the Pittsburgh Platform is to promote activities that place the intersectional objectives of environmental protection, public health, and racial/social equity at the forefront of urban planning and design. In so doing, our intent is to facilitate the establishment of significant, tangible and measurable outcomes that define our social purpose. We are achieving our purpose by creating a multi-disciplinary international network of likeminded professionals to share knowledge and initiate collaborations focused on the cause of advancing environmental health equity. These efforts are guided by the global aspirations of the United Nations sustainable development goals.

OUR WAY

Through various engagement activities, we will create and enhance an online network of professionals who share the goal of achieving a healthier and more equitable society, as manifested in communities throughout the world. We envision the Pittsburgh region as serving as a lens through which such community transformations can be realized. Participation of individuals in this diverse network recognizes their specific interests and ability to contribute. At the same time, the collective knowledge and experience embodied in such a network can both inform best practices and chart pathways for furthering our purpose in the most meaningful ways.  Our approach is based on continuous improvement as a leaning organization, informed by changing social and environmental circumstances as the increasing diversity and expertise of our network.