Comment Period: National Nature Assessment
The U.S. Global Change Research Program is conducting the First National Nature Assessment to assess changes in nature as an aspect of global change. The scope of NNA1 is to assess the status, observed trends, and future projections of America’s lands, waters, wildlife, biodiversity, and ecosystems and the benefits they provide, including connections to the economy, public health, equity, climate mitigation and adaptation, and national security.
Learn more at USGCRP
We’re Hiring 2024 Summer Interns!
Calling UW undergrads! We’re looking for two interns to join our team this summer through EarthLab’s Summer Internship Program. You’ll help us evaluate the healthcare benefits of spending time in nature.
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Call for UW Student Posters
Calling UW students studying fields related to Nature and Health—share your work at the Northwest Nature and Health Symposium on May 1!
Nature and Health illuminates the connections between nature and human health and well-being.
Environmental Health Equity with Edmund Seto
On Wednesday, January 31, 2024, Edmund Seto, PhD joined our Community Dinner to share his environmental health equity work.
Edmund is a professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences.
Updated Mission and Vision
In 2014, Nature and Health began as a collaboration of researchers, healthcare providers, community organizations, outdoor schools, the outdoor gear industry, and local, state, and federal agencies who wanted to understand how time in nature affected human well-being.
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Welcoming our new Director, Gregory Bratman, PhD
Gregory Bratman has stepped up to become our new director. He is also the director of the Environment and Well-Being Lab, a Senior JPB Harvard Environmental Health Fellow, and the Doug Walker Endowed Professor.
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NIH funds Wakaya: Grounded in Choctaw Indigenous Land-based Healing
The National Institute of Health/NIH R01, Wakaya, is led by Choctaw Nation enrolled members, Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings (UW Full Professor, Public Health and Social Work, and Director of Environmental Health and Land-based Healing Division, IWRI) and Dr.
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Ecopsychology Special Issue on Nature and Health—Part 1
Almost two years ago the Ecopsychology journal partnered with the 2021 Nature and Health conference to solicit original manuscripts for a special issue of the journal, edited by Dr. Gregory N.
Special Issue Part 1
Nature and Health Hosts Two UW Tacoma Summer Interns
Nature and Health, an EarthLab member organization, is hosting two interns for the 2022 summer through the EarthLab Summer Internships program. Housed within EarthLab, the internship program is a robust, cohort-based experience for University of Washington undergraduate students to develop interdisciplinary and community-engagement skills.
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UW Tri-campus Forest Bathing Map
The tri-campus Forest Bathing map represents the collective action of the UW Sustainability Action Plan Engagement Committee (Lauren Updyke, Lauren Brohawn, Toren Elste, Ellen Moore, Cheryl Wheeler, and Daimon Eklund). Daimon created the forest bathing map using Arc GIS StoryMap with site recommendations and photos provided by Alexa (UW Bothell), Cheryl (UW Seattle), and Ellen Moore (UW Tacoma).
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