The work reflects study results of Covid-19 pandemic influence on people's health and the perception of the pandemic consequences a year after it in the context of studying health protection resources and adopting healthy lifestyle as one of the sustainable development goals. The environmental agenda after the pandemic has become particularly relevant in the research of all spheres of public life. We examine these problems on the example of changes in life and health of Russian higher school professors on the basis of sociological methods of analysis. Results of the research show that after the pandemic people have become more careful about their health, aiming at disease prevention and maintaining healthy lifestyle. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).