2022-08-10
CIGH Human and Planetary Health Newsletter
- New article in Lancet co-authored by Stanford's Giulio De Leo, Lisa Mandle, Isabel Jones, Laura Kwong, Chris LeBoa, Nicole Nova, Megan Howard, Sanna Sokolow: "Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control."
- Emergence – a Stanford initiative focused on purposeful entrepreneurship – is seeking a head of marketing & communications for their student leadership team. Application here.
- New human & planetary health faces on campus this fall – Elaine Flores, planetary health postdoc, will be visiting from LSHTM (dates TBC); Dele Ogunseitan will be a Visiting Professor at CIGH for 2022-23.
- EVENT: "Air Quality and Lung Health," feat. Kari Nadeau, Aug 16, 9:30am PT. Learn more here; full master class series on climate & health available here.
- NIH announces new Climate and Health Scholars Program. Applications due Sep 15.
- UC Center for Climate, Health, Equity is hiring a Managing Director.
- Higher night-time temperatures linked with increased mortality.
- World Meteorological Organization report summarizes health impacts of climate change – and predicts intensification of consequences.
- Japanese companies craft new insurance policies to cover heat-related health and mortality impacts.
- In the US: flash flooding in Missouri, Kentucky; Oak Fire displacements and destruction in California.
- 21.5m people are displaced by natural disasters every year; new migration policies are needed.