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CPEP Seminar – Leveraging a Public School District and Schoolyard Spaces to Confront Climate Health Inequities in a Low-Income, Urban Community of Color

Name: CPEP Seminar – Leveraging a Public School District and Schoolyard Spaces to Confront Climate Health Inequities in a Low-Income, Urban Community of Color
Start: 2024-09-10T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-09-10T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences

September 10 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Speaker: Kirsten Beyer, Professor of Epidemiology and Social Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin

Dr. Beyer will share her work on greenspace and public health with a focus on current EPA funded work in partnership with Reflo and Milwaukee Public Schools to:

Examine the impact of schoolyard greening on students and the environment
Develop and implement a climate health equity curriculum for teachers to prepare them to teach a climate justice curriculum for K-12 students

The event is hosted in Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences room 823. This seminar can also be viewed via live stream.

Hosted by the Climate, People and the Environment Program (CPEP).

Photo courtesy of the Medical College of Wisconsin

Details

Date:: September 10
Time:: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Website:: https://nelson.wisc.edu/events/cpep-seminar-leveraging-a-public-school-district-and-schoolyard-spaces/?utm_source=Sustain+Dane+General+List&utm_campaign=da8a1c5824-SD+Aug+2024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ad649dde4e-da8a1c5824-109183706&mc_cid=da8a1c5824&mc_eid=c263a875f1

Organizer

: UW Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Phone: (608) 265-5296
: View Organizer Website

Venue

: Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences
: 1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI United States + Google Map