2022-08-29
CIGH Human and Planetary Health Newsletter
- Fall human & planetary health course list
- HERI-Kenya & Stanford CIGH's ALPHA release video on plastic & disease, calling for grassroots waste collection & recycling efforts in coastal Kenya. Read more.
- Stanford-led paper on preparing for future pandemics: "An action plan will require clinical, environmental, engineering, humanities, and social science expertise in dialogue with policy institutions and bodies such as the CDC and WHO."
- Seed funding from Stanford Cancer Institute & Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences for proposals on cancer health equity. Info session Aug 31, 11am PT.
- 350.org and Physicians for Social Responsibility issue letter on California's SB1137, which would ban new permits for oil and gas close to homes, schools, hospitals, prisons, and other public areas.
- Climate & health advocacy bootcamp for health professionals, co-hosted by Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education and the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
- EVENT: Building Community Resilience Against the Health Effects of Wildfires and Air Pollution, Sep 8, 1pm PT. Register here.
- EVENT: Advocacy Day, hosted by Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, Sep 19-20.
- EVENT: NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, and Equity, Sep 23, 12-5pm PT (online). Co-hosted by Stanford Sean N Parker Center, Stanford CIGH, Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group, UC Davis, UCSF, Kaiser Permanente.
- SUSTAIN 140: Environmental Humanities seeks TAs for fall quarter. More information here.