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Building Resilience to Extreme Heat: Strategies for Adapting to a Warming World

February 8th, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Join the Harvard Chan-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health for our 2022-2023 colloquium series on Environmental Health in Action. This month, we welcome Greg Wellenius, ScD, professor on Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH) and Director of the new BUSPH Center for Climate and Health. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the adverse health impacts of continued climate change through research, training, and engagement. Dr. Wellenius also teaches an introductory graduate-level class on quantitative methods and serves on the Research Committee of the Health Effects Institute, as a visiting scientist with Google, and on the executive committee of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance.

Details

Date: February 8th, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Calendars: School-wide Events, University-wide Events
Event types: Lectures / Seminars / Forums

Venue

Building 1
1302
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