Science for a healthy, just, and sustainable world. The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Boston, MA
Joined October 2009
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Rolling back @EPA clean air rules for power plants will have potentially devastating health consequences, esp. for frontline communities—but these rollbacks will face serious legal challenges.
Our director @MaryRice_LungDr writes w/ Carrie Jenks in @HarvardSalata:
Lower emissions, healthier people, stronger economies: Our new commentary in @EnvironEpidem spotlights real-world examples showing immediate health, environmental, and economic co-benefits of climate policies and interventions. loom.ly/2RUhT34
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Save the Date! #HarvardClimateActionWeek takes place September 15-21. Hear from Harvard faculty, climate experts, leaders, and stakeholders as they explore solutions to the most complex and challenging dimensions of the climate crisis. Visit: loom.ly/eI8Kkj4 for details.
Tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease and babesiosis are becoming more prevalent across the U.S.
📍Register for the @HarvardChanSPH Studio event happening TOMORROW @1pm w/ @GaurabBasuMDMPH & others to learn strategies for prevention.
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🔥Worried about your indoor #AirQuality? Check out these tips for making a DIY Air Purifier in our guide w/@Americares: loom.ly/J0n1z2g
What you’ll need:
- Box fan
- Furnace filter
- Optional: duct tape or bungee cords
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Cutting funding for research grants will "have implications that could last for generations," says @MaryRice_LungDr in @Nature.
Her clinical trial to help patients w/ lung disease breathe easier was canceled just months before the research was completed.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Extreme heat & air pollution are a "double whammy" threat to public health, increasing hospital visits for respiratory, heart & mental health, says our dir @MaryRice_LungDr to @NYTimes. Rollbacks to air quality regulations threaten to make pollution worse: loom.ly/BURs3N0
Warmer temperatures and wetter climates fueled by #ClimateChange make tick-borne diseases more likely.
How can we protect ourselves? Learn strategies for prevention at a @HarvardChanSPH Studio event w/ @GaurabBasuMDMPH & others.
July 1 @ 1pm: loom.ly/uaaO3UM
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🔥Extreme heat can harm health, but preparation saves lives!
Use our Heat Action Plan w/@americares to prepare for the heat this week:
✅ Stay hydrated & find cool spaces
✅ Know the warning signs of heat exhaustion
✅ Make a plan for power outages
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Our director @MaryRice_LungDr joined @MIT’s @tilClimate podcast to explain how air pollution from coal, oil, & gas can make us sick, and why a cleaner energy system benefits both the climate and our health.
Listen now: loom.ly/VTse72o
Wildfires are "not just a West Coast problem" says our core faculty member Nick Nassikas in @BostonGlobe.
As climate change makes wildfires more frequent & intense, people across the U.S. are experiencing the health impacts of breathing in wildfire smoke: loom.ly/RzByHkA
Our fellow Dr. Catharina Giudice shares in @Nature how repeated exposure to extreme #heat can lead to kidney failure.
“You’re having this acute kidney injury day after day... progress[ing] to a state where the cells can’t recover fully.”
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Congratulations to our core faculty member @GaurabBasuMDMPH for joining the board of directors of @EnviroLeagueMA! Their work to shift the state to a net-zero future will benefit the health and wellbeing of all Massachusets residents.
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Our Dir @MaryRice_LungDr was testing how air filters could help people w/ lung disease. Then her research grant was terminated.
Stopping the trial is “a disservice...to the people who dedicated their time and their tissue..[and] to the American public."
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🔥#DYK you may be more at risk from #ExtremeHeat if you:
✅ Are a child under 5 or adult 65+
✅ Live w/ a chronic medical condition
✅ Live in social isolation
Check out our heat action plan w/ @Americares to learn how to protect your health.
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Great article on how research cuts at @Harvard put cancer patients, ALS sufferers, and kids at risk.
"It’s an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars to interrupt research,"— @MaryRice_LungDr, whose grant to help ppl w/COPD ended 6 months before results.
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🌀#HurricaneSeason is coming, be aware of the risks after a storm:
✅ Dust and debris 🕸️
✅ Indoor fumes 💭
✅ Mold 😷
Learn how to protect your #health & minimize risks after a #hurricane: loom.ly/7ScZCcY
Yesterday our director @MaryRice_LungDr, deputy director @asansreason and faculty member @chrisgolden05 joined our former director Gina McCarthy and Craig Cogut for a great discussion on science & strategy to advance climate and health research at Harvard Chan C-CHANGE.
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How can cities & health care systems work together to adapt to #ClimateChange?
🏡 Invest in healthy urban design
🏥 Turn facilities into resources during disasters
📊 Share data
& more from @caleb_dresser & @nsbedi in @utpress @c40cities: loom.ly/rM42Q7U
