CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS
Planet Philadelphia environmental radio show 4-5:00 PM Friday 10/20/23:
We are deeply inextricably connected with and affected by our environment for good and ill. This interconnection is increasingly clear as we face existential threats from environmental degradation and the climate crisis. This show explores a new way to incorporate this old wisdom into public health treatment.
We are deeply inextricably connected with and affected by our environment for good and ill. This interconnection is increasingly clear as we face existential threats from environmental degradation and the climate crisis. This show explores a new way to incorporate this old wisdom into public health treatment.
Frank A. von Hippel is a professor of environmental health sciences in the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and the lead of the One Health Research Initiative at the University of Arizona. He has taught ecology field courses in over twenty countries, and conducted research in the Americas, Africa and Australia. He’s the author of The Chemical Age published by the University of Chicago Press, and the host of the Science History Podcast. He discusses the One Health approach to public health and the connectedness of animals, humans and the environment.
Also on this show;
- Peter Winslow is a long-term advocate for the environmental and social justice community in the Philadelphia region and has talked to us regularly about city environmental justice issues. Peter has worked on a Port Development Plan and on projects for the Department of Defense among others. He also is the President of the Evolve Foundation and the Founder/President of the FLAG (the Free Loan Association for Germantown Philadelphia). Peter provides an update on important Philadelphia environmental stories and issues.
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