Voices From the Field: Learning From Communities to Improve Disaster Resilience
Social community psychologist Irene Lafarga Previdi, Ph.D., is studying how mothers and pregnant women coped during two hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of informing new public health engagement strategies.
Past Training and Capacity Building
2023
- Aug 2023: Voices From the Field: Cognitive Assessments of Children Provided Insight into Andean Culture
- Jun 2023: Voices From the Field: Combating Maternal Mortality Through Statistics and Epidemiology
- Apr 2023: Voices From the Field: Learning From Communities to Improve Disaster Resilience
- Feb 2023: Voices From the Field: Investigating Exposures to Chemical and Non-Chemical Stressors on Mother and Child Health in Suriname
2022
- Dec 2022: Voices From the Field: Studying a Plastic Waste Crisis Through an Anthropological Lens
- Oct 2022: Voices From the Field: Searching for Ties Between Environmental Exposures and Vaccine Response
- Aug 2022: Voices From the Field: From the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, Learning the Importance of Effective Risk Communication
- Jun 2022: Voices From the Field: Finding Links Between Nutrition and Global Maternal Health
- Apr 2022: Voices From the Field: Linking the Local Soil and Gut Microbiomes to Children’s Health in Western Kenya
- Feb 2022: Voices From the Field: Reflections on Restorative and Mechanistic Approaches to Environmental Science and Health Research on Indigenous Lands
2021
- Dec 2021: Global Health Is Local Health: Assessing the Role of Wildfire Smoke in Driving Adverse Health Outcomes in the San Diego-Tijuana Border Region
- Oct 2021: Voices from the Field: Including LGBTQ+ Health Equity in Climate and Health
- Aug 2021: Voices from the Field: Building Micronesian Dengue Early Warning Systems
- Jun 2021: Voices from the Field: “Community” in Global Health Research: My Eye-opening Journey From the Wet Lab to the Canadian Arctic
- Apr 2021: Physician Fellow Examines Climate Change as a Public Health Emergency
- Feb 2021: Winners of the December 2020 Indian E-conference Scholars’ Competition
