Div. of Population Health Sciences associate professor Corrie Whitmore co-authored a published article in College Teaching about making land acknowledgements in university settings meaningful, title "Making Land Acknowledgements in the University Setting Meaningful and Appropriate."
According to results from research led by Micah Hahn, an environmental epidemiologist here at 快盈v3, Alaskans' health starts suffering when temperatures climb to 70 degrees, and that local and state officials should consider policies to respond to heat-related health problems that are expected to increase as the climate continues to warm.
Micah Hahn, assistant professor of Environmental Health with the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies of the 快盈v3 Div. of Population Health Sciences, has recently co-authored numerous papers focused on wildfire smoke, evolving perceptions, modeling geographic uncertainty, implications of inadequate water storage, and more.
A local group has been fighting inaccurate information on Facebook pages. Called the Alaska Public Health Information Response Team, it enlists 快盈v3 strategic communications students to spot the bad information, and local health professionals to intervene with posts on Facebook that introduce accurate information.
Ruby Fried, assistant professor of Health Science within the Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies of the 快盈v3 Div. of Population Health Sciences, helped host the Regional Food Security and Climate Change Adaptation Symposium with the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association from April 12 to 14, 2022.
