RFK Jr’s vaccine advisory panel will be discussing the inclusion of adjuvants in childhood vaccinations today. Here’s what’s at stake. Rhea Coler, an affiliate professor of global health at the UW, is quoted.
Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, associate teaching professor emeritus of global health and of health services at the UW, talks about the state of health care in the United States in this KCSB-FM snippet.
An international group of researchers has released its annual report on climate change and human health. Many of the risks they track, like extreme heat danger and the rise of infectious diseases, are moving in the wrong direction. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is interviewed.
Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral that protects teeth from tooth decay. Generally, all water contains some naturally occurring fluoride, but not enough to prevent tooth decay, which has led many communities to add additional fluoride to the water to combat tooth decay. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he intends to push for removal of fluoride from the public water supplies across the country, calling it an “industrial waste.” Dr.
Bill Gates calls for a “strategic pivot” in the global climate fight: from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease. University of Washington public health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi agrees with Gates that the U.N. negotiations should focus on improving human health and well-being, but thinks it's unlikely that changing one variable will curb climate change.
In recent weeks, the GOP has set its sights on getting rid of an algorithmic process called "differential privacy", which was created to keep census data from being used to identify individual respondents. According to research by Abraham Flaxman, associate professor of global health and of health metrics sciences at the UW, this could mean that someone could use census data without differential privacy to identify transgender youth.
The world is on track to add nearly two months of dangerous superhot days each year by the end of the century a study released Thursday found. University of Washington public health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi, who wasn’t part of Thursday’s report, says that other groups are also finding more than hundreds of thousands of deaths from recent heat waves in peer-reviewed research with much of it because of human-caused climate change.
A group of young people are suing the Trump administration to block the president's executive orders "unleashing" American energy, claiming the health effects of fossil fuels violate their Fifth Amendment rights. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and environmental and occupational health sciences at UW, shares how the health effects of a warming world are established in scientific literature.
A new study in the journal Communications Earth & Environment finds that instances of several diseases were lowered in areas where forest was set aside for Indigenous peoples who maintained it well. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health, highlights the complexity of factors that affect human health, and the importance of understanding the role Indigenous communities play in shaping it.
Global warming in the United States is amping up the country’s sweet tooth, a new study found. When the temperature rises, Americans — especially those with less money and education — drink lots more sugary beverages and a bit more frozen desserts. But University of Washington health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi, who wasn’t part of the research, said as temperatures increase with human-caused climate change “there will be other issues of more importance than a small increase in sugary beverages.”