Dr. Steve Luby


Professor, Stanford University

Dr. Steve Luby has conducted research at the interface between the environment and health in low income countries for over 30 years. He lived in Pakistan for 5 years and Bangladesh for 8 years. Dr. Luby is currently appointed as the Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine in Stanford’s Infectious Diseases Division and a Senior Fellow to Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He serves as the faculty director of Stanford’s Center for Human and Planetary Health. Much of Dr. Luby’s recent research focuses on developing and evaluating approaches to counter the perverse incentives where people earn money by destroying the environment and health.