{"id":5567,"date":"2023-11-14T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=5567"},"modified":"2025-12-10T11:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:11:56","slug":"heidari-ucs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/heidari-ucs\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Communication on Heat Adaptation: Connecting Community Members, Decision-Makers, and Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1192 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/leila-heidari\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Leila-Heidari-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Leila Heidari headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Leila-Heidari-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Leila-Heidari-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Leila Heidari<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Ph.D. in Environmental Health<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner: <\/strong>Boston University School of Public Health &amp; GreenRoots, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the deadliest weather phenomenon, heat poses a dire threat, especially to residents of urban heat islands and environmental justice communities. The C-HEAT project, a partnership between BUSPH and GreenRoots, a grassroots environmental justice organization, has completed participatory action research with Chelsea and East Boston Residents, aiming to build community capacity to respond to extreme heat events. The project lacks a short-form medium for communicating the issues and findings for a broader audience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leila partnered with Union of Concerned Scientists to write a blog post for their Science Network. The blog post describes the relationships with C-HEAT project partners (GreenRoots and community members) and presents findings from the Photovoice project, including examples of photos, captions, and calls to action from resident-researchers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post offers a form of science communication that the C-HEAT project needs to reach multiple audiences and amplifies community-engaged climate adaptation work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Deliverable<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UCS blog post:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/science-blogger\/boston-area-communities-work-together-to-beat-the-heat\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/science-blogger\/boston-area-communities-work-together-to-beat-the-heat\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2025\/12\/equation-article-583x636.png\" alt=\"Article by Leila Heidari in The Equation\" width=\"583\" height=\"636\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7145 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/12\/equation-article-583x636.png 583w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/12\/equation-article-550x600.png 550w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2025\/12\/equation-article.png 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: Boston University School of Public Health &amp; GreenRoots, Inc. Project Summary: As the deadliest weather phenomenon, heat poses a dire threat, especially to residents of urban heat islands and environmental justice communities. The C-HEAT project, a partnership between BUSPH and GreenRoots, a grassroots environmental justice organization, has completed participatory action research with Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22861,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5567\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}