Memory and Brain Wellness Center: A Memory Garden is Growing
Inspired by the continuing interest in nature and garden experiences in our community, the Memory and Brain Wellness Center is creating a memory garden for people living with dementia. This garden will be located at the Memory Hub, located beside the Frye Art Museum.
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2021 Nature and Health Symposium: Generating Understanding Across Communities and Disciplines
More than 300 participants from across the globe joined us for our first virtual symposium, Generating Understanding Across Communities and Disciplines. Over the three-day conference, over 100 speakers gave presentations related to disciplines such as social and natural sciences, humanities, health, conservation, planning and education that are currently shaping policies, programs, practices, and designs to benefit all people and nature in a variety of settings.
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Health Equity and Nature During COVID-19
On April 28, 2021 Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts and Dr. Gail C. Christopher joined us as guest speakers to discuss structural racism at the intersections of #BlackLivesMatter, COVID-19, health equity, and nature.
Read moreDirector Joshua Lawler Named Fellow of Ecological Society of America
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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UW’s Nature and Health Group Talks Time Outside
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.
We condemn anti-Asian hate
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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‘Forgetting Nature’: Peter Kahn Offers Warning in Short Documentary Film
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.
Health Professionals and the Climate Crisis: Trusted Voices, Essential Roles
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.
Stepping into the Healing Power of Nature
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 moreSpring 2021 Community Dinner
During 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.