{"id":821,"date":"2023-07-24T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T05:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/?p=821"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:41:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:41:41","slug":"center-faculty-participate-in-congressional-staff-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/2023\/07\/24\/center-faculty-participate-in-congressional-staff-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Center Faculty Host Congressional Staff Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Gregory Wellenius and Amruta Nori-Sarma recently participated in a briefing on climate and health for congressional staff and others at Capitol Hill. They highlighted the growing contributions of climate change in current events, its impact on human health, and the efforts underway to address this complex problem, such as the launch of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/cafe\/\">BUSPH-HSPH CAFE<\/a>. <span>The audience learned what lawmakers could do to enact policies that will provide support to the most vulnerable communities as extreme weather intensifies and ensure more equitable health outcomes for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Learn more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/2023\/07\/20\/building-equitable-resilience-to-climate-events\/\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/federal\/2023\/07\/20\/building-equitable-resilience-to-climate-events\/\">here<\/a><span> or watch the recording of the session <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Khahexx2Wug&amp;ab_channel=GregoryWellenius\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Khahexx2Wug&amp;ab_channel=GregoryWellenius\">here<\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A photo gallery of the event can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bufederal\/sets\/72177720309988946\/\">here<\/a>, with all photography credits to <span>Scavone Photography.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drs. Gregory Wellenius and Amruta Nori-Sarma recently participated in a briefing on climate and health for congressional staff and others at Capitol Hill. They highlighted the growing contributions of climate change in current events, its impact on human health, and the efforts underway to address this complex problem, such as the launch of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"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\/20457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/climateandhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}