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Yogi Hale Hendlin
Academic background
Alma mater
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • London School of Economics
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • Kiel University
Konrad Ott
Academic work
DisciplineEnvironmental philosophy, public health
Sub-discipline
Biosemiotics, commercial determinants of health
Institutions

Yogi Hale Hendlin is an environmental philosopher and public health scientist known for work at the intersection of biosemiotics, planetary health, and the commercial determinants of health. Hendlin is an Assistant Professor in the Erasmus School of Philosophy, and a core member of the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands,[1][2] as well as a member of the Center to End Corporate Harm at the University of California, San Francisco.[3]

Since 2021 Hendlin has been editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Biosemiotics.[4] National Geographic has described Hendlin as one of the leading researchers on the environmental effects of electronic cigarettes.[5]

Education

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Hendlin studied at the University of California, Berkeley, with BAs in Rhetoric and Political Science, an MSc from the London School of Economics (Political Theory), an MA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany).[6][7]

Hendlin worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in plant philosophy at the University of Vienna, before taking up a three-year postdoctoral position at the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, where Hendlin had previously worked as a pre-doctoral researcher, under Pamela Ling, at the University of California, San Francisco.[8][6]

Research

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Hendlin's work focuses on the intersection of environmental philosophy and public health policy, especially the commercial determinants of health.[9][10][11] Topics such as historical colonialism and the role of terra nullius,[12] interspecies communication,[13] and the commercial determinants of health[14] form a bottom-up and outside-in approach to health and ecology.[15][16]

Tobacco industry strategy

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Hendlin's public health research uses internal corporate records held in the industry document archives at UCSF.[15]

A 2017 article in the Annals of Internal Medicine, argued that transnational tobacco companies had planned a long-term shift into pharmaceutical-style nicotine products marketed as reduced-harm alternatives.[17] A 2024 article in BMJ Global Health extended the argument, using several decades of previously secret industry documents to describe the shift as an attempt to recover the industry's social legitimacy.[11]

A 2019 systematic review in the American Journal of Public Health, Hendlin examined with co-authors 826 English-language articles on tobacco harm reduction published between 1992 and 2016. Articles reporting industry funding were far more likely to endorse tobacco harm reduction. Articles without industry funding were evenly split. Most of the supportive articles were letters, commentaries, and reviews rather than reports of original data.[18]

Hendlin co-authored a 2021 paper in the Journal of Public Health Policy describing a "disinformation playbook" of recurring tactics by which industries interfere in the science–policy process.[14]

In 2026 Hendlin was one of sixteen authors of an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, published by the Consortium of the Center to End Corporate Harm. The article argued that corporations making and marketing health-harming products are a primary vector for the global burden of noncommunicable disease, and that litigation-released internal documents are an under-used evidence base for public health.[3]

Environmental effects of tobacco product waste

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A 2018 commentary in the American Journal of Public Health argued that discarded electronic cigarettes are a distinct environmental hazard: spent pods combine plastics, electronic circuitry, and residual nicotine, and no established disposal route exists for them.[19] With Jeremiah Mock, Hendlin surveyed tobacco, cannabis, and electronic cigarette waste on the grounds of twelve high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area; the results appeared in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in 2019.[20]

Reporting on plastic pollution from cigarette filters, National Geographic quoted Hendlin's point that electronic cigarettes sit between the regulatory categories of hazardous waste and electronic waste, and so have no clear disposal route. The magazine described Hendlin as one of the leading researchers on the subject.[5]

Chemical pollution and agrochemicals

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Hendlin has written on how toxicity is defined and contested, including work on the agrochemical industry. A 2021 article in Environment and Society examined the "chemical imaginaries" through which regulators, industry, and publics establish what counts as toxic.[10] With the criminologist Lieselot Bisschop, Hendlin argued in a 2025 article in Environmental Health that criminological methods can support environmental health research, using per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as the case.[9]

Environmental philosophy and biosemiotics

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A 2014 article in Environmental Philosophy examined the colonial doctrine of terra nullius and proposed terra communis as an alternative frame for wild land under conservation and Indigenous rights regimes.[21] The article was later discussed in JSTOR Daily in an account of how conservation practice was shaped by settler colonialism.[12] Hendlin has also written on interspecies communication, contributing the entry "Interspecies" to the MIT Press glossary Contemporanea.[13]

Hendlin has developed the concept of 'semiocide', proposed by the Estonian scholar Ivar Puura, which concerns the destruction of the sign relations through which organisms interpret their environments.[22][23] Hendlin has argued that detached or truncated signs can consume other sign systems, drawing on Jean Baudrillard's notion of simulacra.[24]

In a 2026 keynote at Semiofest in Warsaw, Hendlin set semiocide against the argument that semiotics, by way of biosemiotics, needs to 'select wider' – to widen the ecological, affective, and distal considerations admitted into decision-making.[25]

Feral Ecologies Lab

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Hendlin is principal of the Feral Ecologies Lab, a working group dealing with broad ranging intersections between ecology, meaning-making, health, and society. Through the Feral Ecologies Lab, Hendlin has hosted academics working in environmental philosophy,[26] biosemiotics and eco-evo-devo biology,[27] and public health.[28]

Editorial work

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Hendlin has been editor-in-chief of Biosemiotics since 2021.[4] Contributors to the journal during this period include Denis Noble,[29] Terrence Deacon,[30] and Eva Jablonka with Simona Ginsburg.[31]

Hendlin co-edited Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective (Springer, 2021) with Jonathan Hope, and Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants (Brill) with Johanna Weggelaar, Natalia Derossi, and Sergio Mugnai, in Brill's Critical Plant Studies series.[32] Reviewing Food and Medicine in Biosemiotics, Devon Schiller wrote that the volume makes a significant contribution to both semiotics and medicine, and used it to argue for a shift from medical semiotics to what Schiller calls health semiotics.[33]

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Hendlin, Yogi Hale; Weggelaar, Johanna; Derossi, Natalia; Mugnai, Sergio, eds. (2024). Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants. Critical Plant Studies. Vol. 8. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-68330-3.
  • Hendlin, Yogi Hale; Hope, Jonathan, eds. (2021). Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective. Biosemiotics. Vol. 22. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-030-67115-0.

Papers

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References

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  1. ↑ "Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity". Erasmus University Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  2. ↑ "Academic Team". Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity. Erasmus University Rotterdam. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 Consortium of the Center to End Corporate Harm, University of California, San Francisco; et al. (26 March 2026). "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease — Using Internal Industry Documents to Craft Counterstrategies". New England Journal of Medicine. 394 (12): 1231–1237. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2507028. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 41880620.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. 1 2 "Biosemiotics". SpringerLink. 2025. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  5. 1 2 "Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?". National Geographic. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  6. 1 2 "Yogi Hendlin, PhD". Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  7. ↑ "FreeSkoolScheduleArchive – Barrington Collective". barringtoncollective.org. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  8. ↑ "dr. YH (Yogi) Hendlin". Erasmus University Rotterdam. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  9. 1 2 Bisschop, Lieselot; Hendlin, Yogi (20 August 2025). "How criminology can support environmental health: the case of PFAS". Environmental Health. 24 (1): 59. Bibcode:2025EnvHe..24...59B. doi:10.1186/s12940-025-01214-2. ISSN 1476-069X. PMC 12366152. PMID 40836338.
  10. 1 2 Hendlin, Yogi Hale (1 September 2021). "Surveying the Chemical Anthropocene: Chemical Imaginaries and the Politics of Defining Toxicity". Environment and Society. 12 (1): 181–202. doi:10.3167/ares.2021.120111. ISSN 2150-6779.
  11. 1 2 Hendlin, Yogi Hale; Han, Eileen Le; Ling, Pamela M. (February 2024). "Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry's endgame". BMJ Global Health. 9 (2) e013866. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2023-013866. ISSN 2059-7908. PMC 10859997. PMID 38316465.
  12. 1 2 Gershon, Livia (31 January 2020). "How Conservation Is Shaped by Settler Colonialism". JSTOR Daily. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  13. 1 2 Hendlin, Yogi Hale (2024). "Interspecies". In Marder, Michael; Tusa, Giovanbattista (eds.). Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century. MIT Press. pp. 153–162. doi:10.7551/mitpress/14911.003.0026. ISBN 978-0-262-37809-3.
  14. 1 2 Reed, Genna; Hendlin, Yogi; Desikan, Anita; MacKinney, Taryn; Berman, Emily; Goldman, Gretchen T. (1 December 2021). "The disinformation playbook: how industry manipulates the science-policy process—and how to restore scientific integrity". Journal of Public Health Policy. 42 (4): 622–634. doi:10.1057/s41271-021-00318-6. ISSN 1745-655X. PMC 8651604. PMID 34811464.
  15. 1 2 Hendlin, Yogi (10 October 2024). "Making Sense". Semiovox. Archived from the original on 16 January 2026. Retrieved 10 February 2026.
  16. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi (10 February 2026). "Compost modernity! The vision of solarpunk". Aeon. Retrieved 26 July 2026.
  17. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi H.; Elias, Jesse; Ling, Pamela M. (2017). "The Pharmaceuticalization of the Tobacco Industry". Annals of Internal Medicine. 167 (4): 278–280. doi:10.7326/M17-0759. PMC 5568794. PMID 28715843.
  18. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi H.; Vora, Manali; Elias, Jesse; Ling, Pamela M. (2019). "Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review". American Journal of Public Health. 109 (7): e1–e8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305106. PMC 6603486. PMID 31095414.
  19. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi H. (2018). "Alert: Public Health Implications of Electronic Cigarette Waste". American Journal of Public Health. 108 (11): 1489–1490. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304699. PMC 6187764. PMID 30303735.
  20. ↑ Mock, Jeremiah; Hendlin, Yogi H. (2019). "Notes from the Field: Environmental Contamination from E-cigarette, Cigarette, Cigar, and Cannabis Products at 12 High Schools — San Francisco Bay Area, 2018–2019". MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 68 (40): 897–899. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6840a4. PMC 6788397. PMID 31600185.
  21. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi Hale (2014). "From Terra Nullius to Terra Communis: Reconsidering Wild Land in an Era of Conservation and Indigenous Rights". Environmental Philosophy. 11 (2): 141–174. doi:10.5840/envirophil20143205.
  22. ↑ Hendlin, Yogi Hale (1 April 2024). "Semiocide as Negation: Review of Michael Marder's Dump Philosophy". Biosemiotics. 17 (1): 233–255. doi:10.1007/s12304-024-09558-x. ISSN 1875-1350.
  23. ↑ "Looking back to Ecocide as Semiocide: Ecocide Interdisciplinarity Series Talks for Justice". Utrecht University. 2024.
  24. ↑ Essentia Foundation (23 May 2025). Biosemiotics: A New Way To Understand Non-Human Consciousness | Dr. Yogi Hendlin. Retrieved 25 July 2026 – via YouTube.
  25. ↑ "select-wider". Semiofest Warsaw 2026. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  26. ↑ "Exploring the Indigenous Symbiocene with Professor Brian Burkhart". Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 17 October 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  27. ↑ "Making Meaning in Biology: From EES to Biosemiotics". Lorentz Center. Archived from the original on 17 August 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  28. ↑ "Strategies to Recover (from) the Commercial Determinants of Health". Brocher Foundation. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  29. ↑ Noble, Denis (1 April 2021). "The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis". Biosemiotics. 14 (1): 5–24. doi:10.1007/s12304-021-09405-3. ISSN 1875-1350.
  30. ↑ Deacon, Terrence W. (1 December 2021). "How Molecules Became Signs". Biosemiotics. 14 (3): 537–559. doi:10.1007/s12304-021-09453-9. ISSN 1875-1350.
  31. ↑ Jablonka, Eva; Ginsburg, Simona (1 December 2022). "Learning and the Evolution of Conscious Agents". Biosemiotics. 15 (3): 401–437. doi:10.1007/s12304-022-09501-y. ISSN 1875-1350.
  32. ↑ "Being Algae – Transformations in Water, Plants". Brill. Retrieved 25 July 2026.
  33. ↑ Schiller, Devon (2023). "And the Flesh in Between: Towards a Health Semiotics". Biosemiotics. 16 (1): 175–194. doi:10.1007/s12304-022-09516-5. ISSN 1875-1350.
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References

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  1. "dr. YH (Yogi) Hendlin". Erasmus University Rotterdam.
  2. "Yogi Hendlin, PhD". Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California, San Francisco.
  3. "Being Algae – Transformations in Water, Plants". Brill.
  4. "Biosemiotics – Editorial Board". Springer. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  5. "Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?". National Geographic.
  6. Hendlin, Yogi H.; Elias, Jesse; Ling, Pamela M. (2017). "The Pharmaceuticalization of the Tobacco Industry". Annals of Internal Medicine. 167 (4): 278–280. doi:10.7326/M17-0759. PMC 5568794. PMID 28715843.
  7. Hendlin, Yogi H.; Han, E. L.; Ling, Pamela M. (2024). "Pharmaceuticalisation as the tobacco industry's endgame". BMJ Global Health. 9 (2). PMC 10859997. PMID 38316465.
  8. Hendlin, Yogi H.; Vora, Manali; Elias, Jesse; Ling, Pamela M. (2019). "Financial Conflicts of Interest and Stance on Tobacco Harm Reduction: A Systematic Review". American Journal of Public Health. 109 (7): e1–e8. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2019.305106. PMC 6603486. PMID 31095414.
  9. Hendlin, Yogi H. (2018). "Alert: Public Health Implications of Electronic Cigarette Waste". American Journal of Public Health. 108 (11): 1489–1490. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304699. PMC 6187764. PMID 30303735.
  10. Mock, Jeremiah; Hendlin, Yogi H. (2019). "Notes from the Field: Environmental Contamination from E-cigarette, Cigarette, Cigar, and Cannabis Products at 12 High Schools — San Francisco Bay Area, 2018–2019". MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. 68 (40): 897–899. doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6840a4. PMC 6788397. PMID 31600185.
  11. Consortium of the Center to End Corporate Harm, University of California, San Francisco; et al. (26 March 2026). "Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease — Using Internal Industry Documents to Craft Counterstrategies". New England Journal of Medicine. 394 (12): 1231–1237. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2507028. PMID 41880620.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. Hendlin, Yogi Hale (2014). "From Terra Nullius to Terra Communis: Reconsidering Wild Land in an Era of Conservation and Indigenous Rights". Environmental Philosophy. 11 (2): 141–174. doi:10.5840/envirophil20143205.
  13. "Making Sense: Yogi Hendlin". Semiovox. 10 October 2024.
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