LIVE WEBCAST: International WELL Building Institute to Lead Live Webcast Focusing on Climate Change, Human Health and the Built Environment

Experts share how environmental and human health research can support in the fight against climate change, highlighting the various mechanisms that are needed to make an impact.
Mar 25, 2021 11:10 AM ET

LIVE Webcast | Register here

DATE: April 1, 2021

TIME: 12 p.m. (ET)

Facilitator:

  • Whitney Austin Gray, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Research, IWBI

Speakers:

  • Chris Pyke, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Product, Arcskoru
  • Howard Frumkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., Professor Emeritus, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health
  • Jennifer Taranto, Director of Sustainability, Structure Tone

Climate change has been defined both in context of the planetary and human health, but all too often building scale issues such as energy efficiency and air quality are pitted against each other. Climate change and human health, one of the IWBI Global Research Agenda’s suite of impact topics, has never been an either/or proposition, but a both/and conversation, where unifying planetary and human health research must play a pivotal role if we are to make progress on this important topic. Our webcast will present leading research questions from the Global Research Agenda and feature speakers positioned to activate that research through institutional support, media outreach, and public and private funding mechanisms. The webcast will also present a leading WELL Case Study committed to translating research to practice on planetary and human health on a daily basis.

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About the International WELL Building Institute
The International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) is a public benefit corporation and the world’s leading organization focused on deploying people first places to advance a global culture of health. IWBI mobilizes its community through the administration of the WELL Building Standard (WELL) and the WELL Health-Safety Rating, management of the WELL AP credential, the pursuit of applicable research, the development of educational resources, and advocacy for policies that promote health and wellbeing everywhere. More information on WELL can be found here.

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