AAP News & Journals: Action Needed on ‘Climate Crisis’ to Protect Children’s Health
GHI Director Jonathan Patz tells pediatricians that action is needed on climate crisis to protect children's health.
GHI Director Jonathan Patz tells pediatricians that action is needed on climate crisis to protect children's health.
Sanyu Mojola, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, discusses the intersection of aging, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She studies how societies produce health and illness and is especially interested in understanding social processes, mechanisms and patterns of social organization that lead to health inequities on many fronts. Much of Mojola’s work is focused …
UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
The global climate crisis poses large risks to public health through many exposure pathways — from heat waves and air pollution to malnutrition, infectious diseases, and social dislocation. At the same time, confronting the cause of climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — offers large benefits to …
Simon Nicholson, Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, will discuss a range of other climate engineering or “geoengineering” schemes which are gaining increasing visibility and credibility as options for tackling climate change. What, though, is to be made of such …
CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold, GHI Advisory Committee member finds
Tax on electric hybrids is poor economic policy, GHI Director Jonathan Patz says.
With deer season on horizon, lab ramps up for CWD testing