Please join us for the UCSF EaRTH's Center webinar - Climate Resilience in the Age of Anxiety.

Extreme weather events have raised awareness about the impact climate change is having on people and communities. And a growing body of research shows that climate change is affecting health and mental health. So how can we help people to cope? And how can health care professionals better support their patients?

Speakers:

Jennifer Dhillon of BounceBack Generation will present CREST (Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability Training), a pilot project to share resilience-building tools to help people and communities prepare, respond, and recover from a climate emergency. Jennifer is the director of Bounce Back Generation, a nonprofit dedicated to creating and sharing tools that build emotional resilience for youth and those who care for them. She has been a nonprofit leader working in low income and minority communities in and around public housing since 2004. Prior to her nonprofit work, Jennifer was an environmental justice attorney and was involved in several landmark actions including closing the Hunter's Point PGE and Mirant Potrero Hill Power plants, the West Oakland Port expansion, and Alviso Dow Corning actions. 

James Nolan of the EaRTH Center and UCSF’s Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WPEHSU) will present two new resources for health care professionals to help their patients: a free online e-Toolkit for Prevention covering more than 30 environmental health topics and Prescriptions for Prevention, which offers simple do’s and don’ts to reduce chemical exposures, plastics, and how to protect children from heat stress and other climate impacts. James Earl Schier Nolan, MPH, is the interim Director of the Community Engagement Core. His work focuses on bridge building and strategic community-researcher collaborations. Informed by intersectional analysis, social determinants of health and structural violence, this work engages partners in environmental and climate work, contextualized to better address the upstream drivers of environmental injustices. He brings an emphasis on diversifying STEM fields and harnessing local assets through community based participatory research (CBPR). This approach helps to build awareness, expand capacity and engages community members in co-designing more relevant and effective health interventions. He has managed a range of CBPR projects on pesticides, cleaning products, and air pollution disparities.