2022-08-15
CIGH Human and Planetary Health Newsletter
  • Woods announces 2022 Environmental Venture Projects & Realizing Environmental Innovation Program Grant recipients.
  • "The hope instilled in my grandfather by his ancestors is the key to transforming the present." Stanford grad Anpo Jensen writes about Indigenous history, traditional knowledge, and the importance of drawing in Indigenous voices."...will the rest of the world listen in time?"
  • Human Impacts Database prepared by Stanford postdoc Griffin Chure quantifies the impacts of the human presence on Earth. 
  • NIH Climate & Health Scholars program seeks "to bring Climate and Health scientists from outside the U.S. federal government to work with NIH staff to share knowledge and help build our capacity..." More info attached.
  • Feature in Stanford Magazine on the new Doerr School of Sustainability.
  • Burke et al 2022: "...policy reliance on self-protection to mitigate smoke health risks will have modest and unequal benefits." Write-up on this recent study available in Stanford News.
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  • Kari Nadeau featured in New York Times article on wildfire smoke & lung cancer.
  • UK heatwaves made 10x more likely due to climate change.
  • What the Inflation Reduction Act means for climate.