Joshua Lawler, Director of Nature and Health and a University of Washington professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, has been named a 2021 fellow of the Ecological Society of America.
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Allie Tripp · Washington Trails Association · March 22, 2021
Featuring Josh Lawler, Nature and Health director and Spencer Wood, Nature and Health researcher
Time spent in nature is good for you.
Nature and Health mourns and condemns the increased incidents of racially-motivated violence towards the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.* During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rise in hate-based violence.
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Peter Kelley · UW News · March 17, 2021
Featuring Peter Kahn, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
The documentary film is brief but its message is powerful: We humans are losing our connection to the natural world, at our great peril.
By Edward Maibach, Howard Frumkin, Samantha Ahdoot · World Medical & Health Policy · March 3, 2021
Co-authored by Howard Frumkin, Nature and Health researcher and Steering Committee member
Climate change has triggered a global public health emergency that, unless adequately addressed, is likely to become a multigenerational public health catastrophe.
When former collegiate athlete and competitive skydiver Sydney Williams unexpectedly found herself on the receiving end of a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, while grappling with unresolved trauma from a decades-old sexual assault, she set out on a mission: turn her pain into power.
Read moreDuring spring 2021 online community dinner, the Nature and Health community heard from four regional experts in the field of nature and health:
Howie Frumkin, MD
Emeritus professor
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington School of Public Health
Jesús Aguirre
Superintendent
Seattle Parks
Amber Fyfe-Johnson, ND, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Initiative for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH)
Elson S.
By Carla Santorno, Pooja S. Tandon, and Bookie Gates
“With most children going to school in front of computers without typical recess breaks, physical education, and youth sports programs, our region’s youth face another health crisis — one of physical inactivity.”
Public parks define our neighborhoods and shape our communities, yet too few are holistically designed to be inclusive and even fewer in a nature-based setting. On February 10, 2021, founders of The Eli’s Park Project shared their roles in designing a welcoming, accessible and nature-based park for all at Burke-Gilman Playground Park in Seattle.
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Wild Grief Virtual Hike Habits are an opportunity to come together for grief peer support and nature connection from the comfort of your own home.
This Virtual Hike Habit will start with an opening circle via video chat, similar to the opening circle on our in-person hikes.