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Scientist journalist and editor Katie Burke joins AHCJ as new environmental health beat leader

Association of Health Care Journalists

Katie Burke, a science journalist and editor based in Virginia, has joined AHCJ as the new environmental health beat leader. “This is such an important subject, and Katie’s going to be a great guide for the increasing number of health care journalists reporting on the implications of climate change in particular.”

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Frontiers Forum Live 2023: Accelerating and mobilizing open science for global challenges

Frontiers

This year’s Frontiers Forum Live brought top researchers, innovators, and influencers together in-person and virtually, united in a common mission to accelerate the global transition to open science and mobilize solutions for critical challenges – with the most urgent being to reach net-zero carbon to prevent climate disaster.

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Frontiers at the Charleston conference 2023: community, collaboration, and co-creation 

Frontiers

The transition towards a fully open access publishing landscape is essential to accelerate the scientific innovations urgently needed to solve the major global challenges we face (climate change, global health, socio-economic inequalities, AI technologies, etc.).

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Public Health community approach to climate. Our carbon footprint or our narrative?

Sheffield DPH

Climate change is the most important public health crisis of the next 200 years. It is one of the priorities for Yorkshire and Humber Directors of public health. The actions that are good for the planet are good for health. Some time ago, YH DsPH and YH Climate commission ran an event. Enormously.

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LISTEN: Reflections on the first five years of the Agents of Change program

Environmental Health News

Its been five years since the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program launched, and at a recent retreat gathering the leadership team reflected on what weve learned and what environmental issues were watching closely as we near 2025. Listen below to our discussion and subscribe to the podcast at iTunes or Spotify.

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They're idiots. Why don't they trust us?

Your Local Epidemiologist

This is post 3 of 4 in this mini-series looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines, why trust was lost, and where communication broke down. Guilt is helpful—it reveals when behaviors need to change. Shame, on the other hand, smothers us. Guilt says: this was the wrong decision.

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8 Ways Machine Learning Can be Used to Make Cities Smarter

Smart Data Collective

Often times, we will hear from various forms of media that we should be aiming to reduce our individual and collective carbon footprints – however, how can cities and organizations accurately calculate their contributions to carbon emissions? Toews, These Are The Startups Applying AI To Tackle Climate Change (2021), Forbes. [2]