Jul 23, 2018
In episode 70 of America Adapts, Doug Parsons celebrates two years of America Adapts by talking with Dr. Natasha DeJarnett, a policy analyst in the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Center for Public Health Policy. Natasha leads the Natural Environment portfolio focusing on water, air and climate change. Doug and Natasha cover such topics as the role of APHA in addressing climate impacts on public health; environmental justice and equity; the roles of nurses, doctors and clinics in climate building awareness, and much more!
Topics covered:
- What is APHA’s role and responsibilities in climate change;
- APHA has identified “Climate change as the greatest public health threat”;
- Elevating the urgency around climate change through its public health impacts, e.g., less from the Ebola outbreak;
- Environmental justice and equity and public health;
- Learning from the Tobacco wars and applying to climate change awareness;
- Health providers are first line of climate communication with the public;
- What the Centers for Disease Control is and isn’t doing on climate change;
Bio:
Dr. Natasha DeJarnett is a graduate of the University of Louisville
in Louisville, Kentucky where she completed her PhD in Public
Health (2013) and Masters of Public Health (2009), both
concentrating in environmental health sciences. As a postdoc at the
University, she was awarded a fellowship by the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences to investigate cardiovascular
risks of air pollution exposures. In 2015, she became the recipient
of the prestigious Impact Award from the Society of Toxicology’s
Cardiovascular Toxicology Specialty Section for her 2014 paper
“Acrolein Exposure is Associated with Increased Cardiovascular
Disease Risk.” Dr. DeJarnett was named the 2017 Alumna of the Year
for the University of Louisville School of Public Health and
Information Sciences and concurrently awarded designation in the
class of 2017 Alumni Fellows.
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Links in this episode:
Download the new report Adaptation in Action: Grantee
Success Stories from CDC's Climate and Health Program, Part
II, and discover the many ways climate change impacts health
at http://www.apha.org/climarte.
View APHA’s fact sheets on climate change and health: https://apha.org/publications-and-periodicals/fact-sheets#climate
https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/climate-change
Share APHA’s infographic series on how climate change affects your
health: https://apha.org/news-and-media/multimedia/infographics/how-climate-change-affects-your-health
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including Climate Changes Health: Adaptation in
Action: https://apha.org/events-and-meetings/webinars/climate-webinars
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