{"id":1600,"date":"2025-07-24T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:14:18","slug":"symposium-convenes-stakeholders-to-advance-equitable-heat-health-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/2025\/07\/24\/symposium-convenes-stakeholders-to-advance-equitable-heat-health-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium Convenes Stakeholders to Advance Equitable Heat Health Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 18, 2025, the Center for Climate &amp; Health and Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) hosted a symposium: &#8220;Fostering Collaborations: A Symposium to Advance Equitable Heat Health Actions&#8221; to bring together regional stakeholders including state and municipal governments, academics, healthcare institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and advocacy groups in the Greater Boston region to foster a constructive dialogue with the focus on bridging the gap between heat health research and practice. Materials from the event, including lightning talk slides and posters are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mapc.org\/resource-library\/fostering-collaborations-symposium\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">available now<\/a>. This critical work was made possible by the Hariri Institute for Computing, Boston University for hosting, and the Doris Duke Foundation for sponsoring this project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/climateandhealth\/files\/2025\/07\/Fostering-Collab-Symposium-event-700x5251-1-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/files\/2025\/07\/Fostering-Collab-Symposium-event-700x5251-1-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/files\/2025\/07\/Fostering-Collab-Symposium-event-700x5251-1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 18, 2025, the Center for Climate &amp; Health and Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) hosted a symposium: &#8220;Fostering Collaborations: A Symposium to Advance Equitable Heat Health Actions&#8221; to bring together regional stakeholders including state and municipal governments, academics, healthcare institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and advocacy groups in the Greater Boston region to foster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12968,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}