Archive: climate change
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Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort
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A Billion People Will Be Newly Exposed to Diseases Like Dengue Fever as World Temperatures Rise
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Medical Alumni Event Explores Current and Future Global Health Challenges
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Georgetown Scholar Available to Discuss WHO Report on Health and Environmental Impacts
WASHINGTON — Anticipating the World Health Organization’s report on health and environmental impacts (expected March 15), Georgetown professor Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, points out that environmental harms unfairly impact the most vulnerable people in the world.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
In anticipation of the Pope’s encyclical this week, Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, director of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at Georgetown, says social justice should be considered when addressing climate change.
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The White House Honors GUMC Professor for Climate-Related Health Work
The White House honored Laura Anderko, PhD, RN, the Robert and Kathleen Scanlon Chair in Values Based Health Care at NHS, as a Champion of Change for her leadership in raising awareness about climate-
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The Health Care Sector & Climate Change
The health care sector can play an important role in lessening, reversing and adapting to the effects of global climate change, according to an environmental health scholar at Georgetown University.
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