IASâLancet Commission on Health and Human Rights
IAS–Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights
“This newly formed Commission seeks to interrogate the key questions facing both global health and human rights in a world of complex transnational threats and challenges, from climate change to COVID-19, equity in access to healthcare and the ways to address the many communities excluded from current health and development debates. We feel the time is now to develop a more inclusive vision that can embolden efforts to realize the right to health for all.”
~ Adeeba Kamarulzaman & Chris Beyrer – Commission Co-Chairs
Charged with being bold, fresh, innovative and challenging to advance thinking on health and human rights, the Commission will explore the following key questions:
By City News Service
Apr 28, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A new blueprint by USC researchers identifies four places best suited to plant shade trees across Los Angeles Eastside to bring cooling relief to thousands of people at risk for heat waves and air pollution in a warming global climate, the university announced today.
In some scenarios, the tree canopy could be doubled across much of El Sereno, Ramona Gardens and parts of Lincoln Heights near USC s Health Sciences Campus, the researchers report. The area is one of the most tree-poor urban landscapes in the city.
Better still, the scientific tools that the USC researchers used have wider application to guide tree-planting efforts in other communities across L.A., according to the university.
By City News Service
Apr 28, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A new blueprint by USC researchers identifies four places best suited to plant shade trees across Los Angeles Eastside to bring cooling relief to thousands of people at risk for heat waves and air pollution in a warming global climate, the university announced today.
In some scenarios, the tree canopy could be doubled across much of El Sereno, Ramona Gardens and parts of Lincoln Heights near USC s Health Sciences Campus, the researchers report. The area is one of the most tree-poor urban landscapes in the city.
Better still, the scientific tools that the USC researchers used have wider application to guide tree-planting efforts in other communities across L.A., according to the university.
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The Urban Trees Initiative, led by the USC Dornsife Public Exchange, is preparing research that will guide tree-planting efforts by the city of L.A. and others later this year. (Illustration/Esther Margulies and Yuliang Jiang)
Anew blueprint by USC researchers identifies four places best suited to plant shade trees across Los Angeles’ Eastside to bring cooling relief to thousands of people at risk for heat waves and air pollution in a warming global climate.
In some scenarios, the tree canopy could be doubled across much of El Sereno, Ramona Gardens and parts of Lincoln Heights near USC’s Health Sciences Campus, the researchers report. Today, the area is one of the most tree-poor urban landscapes in the city.
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Hispanic immigrants of working age 20 to 54 years old are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study of California death certificate data from 2020.
The study, published Monday in the
Annals of Epidemiology, highlights California s urgent need to bring vaccinations, treatments and other interventions to a demographic that comprises the backbone of the state s agricultural and service industries. Unions and advocacy groups are racing to convince immigrants, both documented and undocumented, to get vaccines, Politico reports. We ve known since early on that people of color are more likely to die of COVID. The CDC says that Hispanics, overall, are 2.3 times more likely to die than non-Hispanics, said Erika Garcia, an assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study s first author. Yet when we looked at this specific, working-age group, we were