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Greg Nemet, GHI Advisory Committee member, and Gregg Mitman, former Advisory Committee member named 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellows
Greg Nemet, GHI Advisory Committee member, and Gregg Mitman, former Advisory Committee member named 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellows.
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Climate change, renewable energy and the future of our planet
Sandra Begay-Campbell, principal member of the technical staff at Sandia Labs National Laboratories, leads the panel discussion on climate, energy and the future of the planet. The discussion will focus on solar and renewable energy, climate change, and policy. She will be joined by: GHI Director Jonathan Patz Sumudu Atapattu, director of the UW Law…
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Break the cycle: The power of food to interrupt the revolving door of prisons
A documentary film screening and community discussion examining the interconnections between race, mass incarceration and urban agriculture. Building Food Justice Capacity in South Madison is a four-year community-university partnership that uses food as a strategy to break cycles of systematic incarceration of minorities by our criminal justice system. The partnership asks the question: How could…
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PHS Monday Seminar: Tracey Holloway, PhD, “Linking Satellite Data with Public Health and Air Quality”
This talk will focus on the opportunities and challenges in using satellite data for health exposure assessment and understanding air pollution. For over 10 years, satellites have been used to characterize spatial and temporal patterns in air quality on a global basis, and planned programs over the coming few years will greatly expand satellite capability.…
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GHI Director to give opening Keynote at the Inaugural Planetary Health Conference in Boston next Friday
GHI Director to give opening Keynote at the Inaugural Planetary Health Conference in Boston next Friday.