Skip to main content Skip to footer unit links

Nature and Health

31 posts in Announcements
Close
| Announcements, Press Release

REI Cooperative Action Fund Invests $200K in the Center’s Research and Community-Building Efforts to Create a More Inclusive, Accessible, and Equitable Outdoors

May 20, 2025
The UW Center for Nature and Health (the Center) is proud to announce a renewed partnership with the REI Cooperative Action Fund (REI Fund), which has awarded us a $200,000 grant to advance our strategic priorities and deepen the Nature and Health movement across the Pacific Northwest. 

Read more
| Announcements, Events, Symposium

2025 NW Nature and Health Symposium

On May 21, 2025, more than 100 students, researchers, healthcare professionals, and community advocates joined together for our 8th annual symposium. We came together with a shared purpose—to deepen our understanding of the profound connection between nature and human well-being and to advance bold, inclusive strategies that ensure everyone has access to the healing power of green and blue spaces—especially those who have long carried the undue weight of environmental and social injustice. 

Read more
| Announcements

We’re Hiring a Summer Science Communications Intern

We’re hiring a summer science communications intern through the EarthLab Summer Internship Program. Applications are due February 6 by 5 pm.
The intern will distill scientific information into accurate, compelling, and accessible stories and case studies for multiple platforms (e.g., website, social media, StoryMaps, flyers, etc.), develop an editorial calendar related to nature-based days (e.g., Earth Day, Arbor Day, etc.) and free parks days, and draft social media posts. 

Learn more and apply
| Announcements

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
| Announcements, Symposium

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. 

Read more
| Announcements

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. 

Read more
Back to Top