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Tag: Aaron Bernstein
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Nation & World
After four generations, an emergency focus on climate change
Julia Malits will be the fourth generation of women in her family to go into medicine. She will be the first, though, to focus on emergency medicine and climate change.
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With an eye on climate, a helping hand for health care’s front lines
A new toolkit for community-based health centers offers advice to clinicians, patients, and administrators on how to prepare for and handle climate-related emergencies.
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The fight for environmental justice
The Environmental and Energy Law Program and C-Change, two Harvard groups focused on climate change, are crafting solutions to support communities of color whose members have experienced the impacts of climate change at a higher rate than others.
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Nation & World
With COVID spread, ‘racism — not race — is the risk factor’
Since the outset of the COVID-19 outbreak, public health experts have noted the disproportionate toll on Black and brown Americans. Those groups are at much greater risk of getting infected than white people; they are two to three times likelier to be hospitalized, and twice as likely to die, according to recent estimates from the…
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What scares you most about climate change?
Harvard faculty talk about their concerns and fears about climate change as the world commemorates Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
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On climate, the young take the lead
Impacts of climate change and fossil fuel burning can be particularly dire for the vulnerable, like the planet’s youth, who are watching out for their interests by staging a global climate strike, according to C-Change’s Aaron Bernstein.
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Nation & World
A healthy twofer
Harvard’s new Sustainable Healthful Food Standards, announced today, will challenge University food service to increase healthy options while also considering how the food is produced, taking into account sustainability, pesticide and fertilizer use, food-workers’ conditions, and animal welfare.
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Nation & World
A better way of living
Aaron Bernstein, associate director for Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, studies how changes in transportation, diet, and energy can immediately benefit health.
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Nation & World
For better health, reduce greenhouse gases
The “Harvard Chan: This Week in Health” podcast sits down with Aaron Bernstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the Harvard Chan School, to discuss how climate change will impact health and health care costs.
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Nation & World
A focus on what we eat
In Harvard’s Foodbetter program, faculty and administrators join forces to inspire a healthy, sustainable, and just food system at home and abroad.
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Paris deal a step toward better health, experts say
Panelists in a Harvard Chan School forum examined how the Paris climate agreement might affect human health.
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EdX expansion set for spring
EdX, the online learning initiative founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced its spring course and module offerings, including four at Harvard.
