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CHI Member Voices Support for Sustainable Food Procurement in DC Public Schools

CHI member and Redstone Policy Director Rachel Clark testifies to the Council of the District of Columbia Committee on Education Performance Oversight Hearing on District of Columbia Public Schools...

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Health in the social cost of carbon: Recent advances to fill a critical gap

Please join us for a panelist disccusion on Health in the Social Cost of Carbon on March 22, 2022, 12-1pm ET with Kevin Cromar, Director, Health, Environment and Policy Program, Marron Institute of...

Potomac and Anacostia rivers are tidal rivers

'Humans are driving climate change but they can also fight against it'

CHI member and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dr. Dan Goldberg, contributed to a WUSA9 piece.

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CHI Director and student member contribute to new UN Environment Programme Report

CHI Director, Dr. Susan Anenberg, with support from CHI student member Lauren Johnson, contributed to a new UN Environment Programme Report.

Pedestrians walk across the John W. Weeks Footbridge in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 10.

'What winter weather forecasts, wildfires and mosquitoes mean for our health'

CHI Co-Director and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dr. Neelu Tummala, wrote a 'THINK' piece for NBC News.

Pathways by which increased greenhouse gases afect food insecurity and undernutrition

'How Can We Act to Mitigate the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change?'

CHI members Dr. Bill Dietz and Sydney Pryor published a paper in Current Obesity Reports.

Underlying the disparate interactions of obesity, food insecurity, race/ethnicity and COVID-19 infections are social drivers of health

'The COVID-19, Obesity, and Food Insecurity Syndemic'

CHI members Sydney Pryor and Dr. Bill Dietz published a paper in Current Obesity Reports.

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Letter to the Editor: ‘Don’t Look Up’: A Political Allegory

CHI Co-Director and Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dr. Sabrina McCormick, writes a Letter to the Editor.

Susan Clayton, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, College of Wooster; Lise van Susteren, Co-founder Climate Psychiatry Alliance; Arthur C. Evans, Jr, CEO and Executive Vice President, American Psychological Association; Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health; Meighen Seiser, Executive Director, EcoAmerica

Climate Change and Mental Health: Research to Action

Please join us for a webinar discussing climate change and mental health on Friday, February 18th at 12:00 PM EST with Susan Clayton, Whitmore-Williams Professor of Psychology, College of Wooster; ...

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'Quantifying the Health Benefits of Urban Climate Mitigation Actions'

CHI Director, Dr. Susan Anenberg, and CHI student members Lauren Johnson, Nick Pendleton, and Maha Malik, co-authored a paper published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities.