Spring talks: Health equity and nature during COVID-19
You are invited to participate in Nature and Health’s Spring Talks on April 28th with Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts and Dr. Gail C. Christopher.
We will discuss structural racism at the intersections of #BlackLivesMatter and COVID-19 to build this ongoing conversation about health equity and nature.
We condemn anti-Asian hate
Nature and Health mourn and condemn 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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Nature and Health Equity and Racial Justice Task Force
Naheed Gina Aaftaab, Sara Breslow, Sean M. Watts, and Isabel Carrera Zamanillo join the Nature and Health Equity and Racial Justice Task Force to build and strengthen our scholarly transdisciplinary relationships.
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Nature and Health to host online forum
Together with the University of Washington Nature and Health team, Let It Shine Retreat is excited to invite health and wellness practitioners and researchers to an online forum on August 5th to workshop the Let it Shine wellness retreat concept.
Read moreBlack Lives Matter
The attack on Christian Cooper while birding in Central Park so painfully reminds us how inequitable our access to nature is. The recent killings by vigilantes of Ahmaud Arbery (1994-2020). The killings by police of Breonna Taylor (1993-2020), George Floyd (1976-2020), and Tony McDade (1982-2020) a Black transgender man, remind us yet again that this inequity is driven by deep-seated systemic racism.
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