📢 We are very excited to host our next Advanced methods for climate and health attribution Summer School, delivered by @frediotto.bsky.social, @clairbarnes.bsky.social, @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social & @robbieparks.bsky.social
If you are a postgrad student or researcher, read on to find out more 🧵
National Academy of Sciences' Frontiers of Science
National Academy of Sciences' Frontiers of Science
National Academy of Sciences' Frontiers of Science
National Academy of Sciences' Frontiers of Science
Wrapped up the @nationalacademies.org Frontiers of Science symposium this weekend as a FoS Fellow, what a fantastic event! Leaving with new ideas and colleagues at the forefront of U.S. science. #science #nasfrontiersofscience
Our @uarizona.bsky.social story on my heat health panel with @doctorufu.bsky.social and @robbieparks.bsky.social is at news.arizona.edu/news/u-heat-... #uarizona
🔥 @robbieparks.bsky.social was selected as a 2026 Frontiers of Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences — one of 81 of the nation's brightest young scientists, presenting on heat stress & human health this March.
🔗 www.nasonline.org/news/nationa...
Two maps show storm exposure in the southeastern U.S. Map A shows "Gale to violent storm exposure" in shades of purple, from 0 to 25 days. Map B shows "Hurricane exposure" in shades of red, from 0 to 5 days. "text@0" "text@1" "text@2" "text@3"
Each additional tropical cyclone-exposed day was associated with increased psychoactive drug-related death rates in exposed US counties, highlighting the need to integrate substance use and mental health services in disaster preparedness.
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🌪️🌍 Who actually bears the burden of tropical cyclones?
A global look at exposure, storms, and inequality. @robbieparks.bsky.social
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Annual Medicaid interpersonal (n = 327,577) and self-inflicted (n = 17,271) violence-related hospital visits, by sex and age for 1999–2012
🤒Higher temperatures are associated with more violence-related visits, particularly for younger individuals and those with lower income or educational attainment.
👉Read the study by @robbieparks.bsky.social and co-authors at www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#sustainability #climatechange 🧪
A great pleasure to give a guest lecture on Weather and Climate Extremes at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social’s Mailman School of Public Health today.
Thanks for the invite @robbieparks.bsky.social!
@lamont.columbia.edu @iiasa.ac.at
🌪️ @newyorker.com just spotlighted former Agents Of Change fellow @robbieparks.bsky.social!
His research reveals the invisible health toll of hurricanes — from chronic illness to mental health impacts long after storms end.
Read more 👇
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
This study was led by Dr. Qing Yao, with great collaboration with Victoria Lynch, Molei Liu, @wuxiao1993.bsky.social and @robbieparks.bsky.social.
Check out the press release from Columbia Mailman. www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/hurrica...
Heat kills, more than we think and we can see. Heat intensified by climate change kills even more. For the 1st time, we conducted a rapid impact attribution study looking at the additional deaths that occurred due to climate change across 12 cities in Europe, in close to real-time: shorturl.at/mv6ms
This study is led by Dr. Qing Yao, in collaboration with Victoria Lynch, Molei Liu, @wuxiao1993.bsky.social, and @robbieparks.bsky.social. Great pleasure discussing our findings with Sarah Kaplan and Kevin Crowe at the Washington Post. The preprint has not been peer-reviewed. End/
A small team of us at Columbia (Sen Pei, Qing Yao, and me) collaborated with @washingtonpost.com to create a data-driven story about Hurricane Helene flooding and lack of evacuation added to the severe impacts:
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Great coverage of paper from @sciam.bsky.social:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Planes de salud, calor, salud mental...
Un combo cada vez más preocupante.
Los investigadores solicitan apoyo específico para proteger a las comunidades vulnerables. #SaludPública
A global review finds most heat-health plans mention #mentalhealth but lack real interventions. As extreme #heat intensifies, researchers call for targeted support to protect vulnerable communities. #ClimateAdaptation #PublicHealth
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s405...
This gap aligns closely with findings from a recent report by @physoc.bsky.social and @wellcometrust.bsky.social, which highlighted the urgent need to integrate mental health into climate adaptation strategies.
📢 A major new review has found that while over 75% of heat-health action plans mention mental health, only a fifth include any targeted interventions.
#tldr: Our new review found that while most Heat Health Action Plans mention mental health, very few detail specific impacts or include targeted interventions, highlighting a critical gap to be addressed in heat policies under climate change:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
👏 Huge congratulations to Allison Stewart-Ruano, our wonderful PhD student, and co-authors for this crucial work: #ClimateHealth #PublicHealth #HeatAction #MentalWellbeing
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🌍 We're seeing promising examples of integration (e.g., Southern Australia's heatwave early warning system: www.health.gov.au/sites/defaul...). It's time to ensure these vital mental health protections are routinely integrated into heat policies.
🔎 How well is this reflected in Heat Health Action Plans (HHAPs)?
👍 75.9% of HHAPs mention mental health.
🤔 But only 31.3% acknowledge specific heat-mental health impacts.
👎 And only 21.7% include targeted interventions.
😰 Growing evidence links extreme heat to negative mental health outcomes, from increased mortality in those with pre-existing conditions to higher psychiatric admissions.
🌡️ Out today! The first-ever review on how #MentalHealth features in Heat Health Action Plans is out now in #CurrentEnvironmentalHealthReports!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ClimateHealth #PublicHealth #HeatAction #MentalWellbeing
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Absolutely let’s talk!
Has been amazing to visit the @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Global Center in Santiago Chile! Many exciting projects on the horizon…
This paper was also one of NIEHS's papers of the month for March 2025!
factor.niehs.nih.gov/2025/2/paper...
"The last 10 years have been the 10 warmest years on record," a direct outcome of ongoing fossil fuel emissions, and this signals that warming risks could be even more dramatic than thought, says climate scientist Radley Horton of @lamontearth.bsky.social @columbiaclimate.bsky.social. Via @npr.org.