Lenses

Lenses are overarching ways of seeing environmental health. Each core topic can be examined through these lenses.

llustration by Ricardo Levins Morales; Image source: Columbia University

Environmental Justice

There are unequal exposures. There are unequal impacts. Environmental justice works to document, intervene, and eliminate health inequities.

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Climate Change

Our planet is changing. How will climate change influence core topics within environmental health?

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COVID-19

Our world has changed a lot in 2020. Coronavirus has exposed the interaction of environmental health systems. How can COVID-19 give you a closer look at environmental health?

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Global Health

We are not in this alone. How do different countries tackle common problems? How can we work together? Where are their inequities for vulnerable populations around the world.

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