Featured Webinars
The Research Forum host webinars in which nurse researchers share their environmental health research. View our featured webinars below. You can also view past webinars on ANHE YouTube channel.
Research Forum Co-Chairs
Claire Richards, PhD, BSN, BS
Climate change poses new threats to human health through direct, indirect, and compounding hazards that interact with social, political and economic inequities. For this reason, Claire Richards, PhD, BSN, BS focuses her research on health equity and social justice in the context of climate change. Recent work has been focused on power outages and social vulnerability. Central findings from this work include the potential to model power outages as a continuous rather than dichotomous exposure (allowing for identification of thresholds based on health outcome data), and the lack of transparency into power outage data (hampering its use for prioritizing energy resilience efforts). Findings inform future researchers wishing to use PowerOutage.US data (or other publicly available outage data) about potential biases caused by using certain estimation methods, and support policy changes in requiring outage data availability and analyses of differential exposure for socially vulnerable populations. She has also been involved in studies related to climate adaptation in agriculture and climate hazards (human migration). In future work, she plans to focus on energy and health, energy justice, and social movements/activism and health
Jessica LeClair
Jessica LeClair, PhD, MPH, RN conducts a research program where her overall goal is to improve the health status of communities most burdened by the triple planetary crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. Dr. LeClair’s research program aims to identify and facilitate effective public health practices that advance planetary health in these communities. Dr. LeClair utilizes mixed methods to study collaborative planetary health strategies implemented by public health nurses and their community partners. She holds affiliated appointments at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, the School of Medicine and Public Health, and the Center for Climatic Research.