BUSPH Department of Environmental Health

Our department is currently seeking applicants for multiple faculty positions! We are looking for individuals who are versatile, collaborative, and creative to address environmental health challenges and inequities. We are also open to candidates from various fields within environmental health, such as exposure science, epidemiology, toxicology, risk assessment, data science, and public health practice. Application review will begin January 6, 2025 and applications will continue to be accepted through February 18, 2025. Applicants should provide a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a research statement describing their research interests and previous experience, and a teaching and mentoring statement detailing their teaching experience and their approach to mentoring trainees in an inclusive and diverse learning environment.?Please apply via AcademicJobsOnline.

The Pan American Health Organization (#PAHO) recently approved a new policy on health, climate change, and equity that seeks to strengthen the health sector, increase funding for climate and health, protect vulnerable communities, and improve climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. The policy explicitly recommends making the health sector greener in combination with responding to the unmet needs of underserved and vulnerable populations, including low-income households, Indigenous Peoples, and migrant communities (1). The policy aligns with the #WHO Resolution on Climate Change and Health and the and the #UnitedNations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The #PAHO Policy to Strengthen Equity-Oriented Health Sector Action on Climate Change and Health highlights five key actions: ? Adaptation: strengthen the health sector’s ability to anticipate, prevent, respond to the impacts of climate change ? Mitigation: strengthen the health sector’s capacity to build low-carbon health systems to reduce current and prevent future health inequities ?? Awareness: strengthen community and societal participation in climate change and health action efforts ?? Surveillance: improve collection and use of climate change and health data to protect health and reduce health inequities. ?? Financing: improve funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts, particularly for vulnerable and under-resourced communities See resources and articles cited below: (1) https://lnkd.in/eTJcSixS photo credits: iStock/Cid Guedes

New study led by Faculty Birgit Claus Henn and Alum Kathryn Crawford:

"How do we explain climate-health issues to grandmothers, kids, bus drivers?" At a workshop in Cape Town today co-organized by Climate & Health CAFé, South African Medical Research Council, and Wits RHI, we saw powerful examples of translating South African research on extreme heat, fire, chemicals, green space, and other climate-health topics into comics, magnets, flyers, maps, policy briefs, and even a recipe book.

Congratulations to SPH's Matthew Fox and Jessica Leibler on their recent #AnthemAwards win! The duo won gold for their work on the Free Associations podcast, where they discuss popular health studies and hyperbolic news headlines, while teaching us how to ask the right questions. Learn more ?? https://spr.ly/6048sC40G

The current climate crisis continues to pose significant risks; vector-borne diseases are spreading to new areas and health issues are exacerbated. Tune into Cities 1.5's podcast featuring our doctoral student Quinn Adams to learn more about what this crisis is doing to the brain and body: https://lnkd.in/dFEAVUEx #publichealth #climatechange #enviromentalhealth

I was fortunate to engage with colleagues from BU and Harvard this morning on a panel talking about the recent wildfires in the northeast, including information on considerations for protecting yourself and others from smoke exposure. Big thanks to Dr. Nadeau for spearheading the event and hoping to do more of this in the future! https://lnkd.in/eEuN4YSu

ICYMI: Last week, Dr. Laura Buckley successfully defended her dissertation titled “Modeling the Health and Equity Impacts of Climate Action and Air Pollution Control Strategies at Local, Regional, and National Scales.”?Congratulations?to Dr. Buckley!

The Department of Environmental Health is happy to announce that Laura Buckley, an Environmental Health PhD Candidate, will be defending her dissertation?today,?Thursday, November 14?at 1PM?in L-301 or on Zoom! Her dissertation is titled “Modeling the Health and Equity Impacts of Climate Action and Air Pollution Control Strategies at Local, Regional, and National Scales.” Click?the link below?for additional details! https://lnkd.in/e4xXhJVc

Shockingly, the steel industry's pollution claimed between 460 and 892 lives prematurely each year, and cause nearly a quarter-million new asthma cases annually from pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and fine particulate matter. Faculty Jonathan Buonocore adds a perspective note, “These particles are small enough, they get into the lung, and when they get into the lung, they’re small enough, they can cross the barrier between the lung and the blood, so they enter general circulation. And then, every single piece of the body is on the table for harms at that point.” #steelindustry #airpollution #climatechange #health