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Population Health Initiative, EarthLab event builds cross-disciplinary climate change connections
The Population Health Initiative and EarthLab hosted approximately 45 University of Washington faculty, staff and graduate students in an Open Space-style event in the UW wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House on October 23, 2023, to help facilitate the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations to take on pressing climate-related challenges. This was the second Fostering Climate Change Connections event, following the inaugural offering that took place on April 11, 2023.
Read moreNCRC and partners to pilot groundbreaking co-production method
Building resilience to climate change requires many diverse areas of expertise, experiences and knowledge. Though they have historically been marginalized from climate preparedness efforts, people of color, Indigenous peoples, people with lower incomes and people whose lives depend on natural resources — known collectively as “frontline communities” — have innovative solutions for building resilience to climate change impacts.
The Northwest Climate Resilience Collaborative and partners are piloting a groundbreaking method for elevating first-hand experiences and visions of climate resilience and solutions, with the goal of incorporating community knowledge into efforts to prepare for climate impacts. Partnering with the documentary storytelling organization Tikkun Olam Productions and the Pacific Research on Island Solutions for Adaptation program, a trans-disciplinary research team will record the oral histories of frontline communities facing flooding and other climate change impacts.
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Taking hopeful action for win-win climate change and mental health policies
EarthLab was honored to be invited by the OECD Wise Centre and the UW Environment and Well-Being Lab to co host a public workshop dedicated to better understanding the connection between climate change and mental health and the policies we can develop to improve lives. On September 19, 2023, fifteen panelists shared new research and personal experiences to help uncover the complex pathways linking climate change and mental health, hopeful actions led by community, tribal knowledge, and barriers and successes in local, state and national policy.
Read moreArt Meets Science: Centre Student Creates Illustrated Guide Book for Yellow Island Visitors
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Make new interdisciplinary climate research connections on Oct. 23 (UW RSVP req'd)
The Population Health Initiative and EarthLab will again co-host an Open Space-style event in the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House on 10/23/23 to facilitate the development of new interdisciplinary collaborations to take on pressing climate-related challenges. UW faculty members, staff and graduate students who attend the event will set the agenda for discussion. RSVP required.
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U.S. research funding on health effects of climate change inadequate
“We’ve systematically underinvested in this rapidly emerging health threat, and it has hamstrung our ability to respond,” said Dr. Jeremey Hess, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health and of global health and emergency medicine at the UW School of Medicine in Seattle, one of the authors of the paper. Dr. Jeremy Hess is also the director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment, an EarthLab member organization.
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Join us for the 2023 Doug Walker Lecture, Building Resilience: Future-forward solutions for nature, health and the urban environment
We're thrilled to share that Dr. Heather Tallis will be the keynote speaker at the annual UW College of the Environment Doug Walker Lecture. Join us to explore how weaving nature more deliberately into the fabric of our urban communities can improve our quality of life. From urban parks to sustainable infrastructure, integrating nature into our cities makes us healthier, happier, smarter and safer.
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Now Open (plus more funding!) 🌟 EarthLab Innovation Grants
The maximum funding request is now $80k over 18 months & previously awarded grantees are allowed to apply for new projects. Letters of Interest are due by 1/9/24.
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UW President Cauce: Urgency of climate crisis motivating action across the UW
But regardless of any tension over how quickly we can achieve total decarbonization, we completely agree that addressing climate change is vital to the health and prosperity of everyone. That is why environmental resilience is one of the three pillars of the UW’s Population Health Initiative, launched in 2016; why we started the College of the Environment, still the largest in the country; and why UW’s EarthLab was created to spur novel, equitable and scalable climate change solutions.
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