Environmental & Human Health
These pieces explore both the health of our environment and how human activity alters key human health determinants, like air quality, food safety, water systems and sanitation.
Ben Oestericher, Cecilia Cassidy, Climate & Energy, Edna N. Bosire, Emily Mendenhall, Environmental Health, Shabab Wahid, Spring 2024
A team of Georgetown researchers discuss the results of a study conducted in Kilifi County, Kenya. This study investigated the impact of climate change on the mental health of communities who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods.
August 6, 2024
Environmental Health, Food & Water, Lucy Bowden, Spring 2024
From Gas Chambers to Your Table: Organophosphate Pesticides are Deadly Killers
August 6, 2024
Aayush Muraka, Cecilia Cassidy, Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Spring 2024, Sustainability
A Climate Autobiography: Reflecting on Cultural Adaptation in the Sonoran Sun
August 2, 2024
Cecilia Cassidy, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Rosemary Sokas, Spring 2024
Jesuit Projects in Climate-Change-Affected Liberia
April 5, 2024
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Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Gillian Meyers, Spring 2023, Sustainability
Gillian Meyers (SFS ’23) reflects upon the durability of mutually beneficial Corporate-Indigenous partnerships and their effectiveness in protecting people and the planet.
April 25, 2023
Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Health, Peter Marra, Spring 2023
To conserve biodiversity, we must stop chasing ghosts and start making plans
In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now by passing legislation like the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, revamping existing international treaties, and investing in the research that is required to inform proactive conservation.
March 29, 2023
Climate Change, Environmental Health, Fall 2022, Interviews, Sustainability, Ursula Gately
Rising Risk of Extreme Heat on Health in the District
Have you wondered why the summer heat in DC has increased so much? Undergraduate student Ursula Gately (COL’23) investigates rising heat in the district and the governmental, as well as her own, personal response to it with the founding of the Georgetown Undergraduate Environmental Health Collaborative.
October 15, 2022