climate change Archives - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

USC IIGH addresses climate change and its impacts on human rights through global collaboration

Posted on November 1, 2021December 20, 2021

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) has always included in its work a focus on sustainable development and climate change, including addressing the economic, ... read more →

When Climate Change is Everything, How Do We Manage the World and Leave No One Behind?

Posted on October 19, 2021December 18, 2022

On Oct. 19, USC IIGH hosted Rachel Kyte, dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Dr. Kyte, named by Time magazine as one of the 15 most influential women leading the fight against climate change, has played a key ro... read more →

This Sacred Earth & The Climate Crisis: What’s Real and What We Can Do

Posted on October 12, 2020December 20, 2021

On October 20, 2020, the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health Student Advisory Council hosted a webinar with Professor Jeremy Kagan discussing the climate crisis. The keynote presentation based on Al Gore's Climate... read more →

Addressing the Dual Challenges of Climate Change and COVID-19

Posted on September 1, 2020December 20, 2021

On September 21, 2020, USC IIGH hosted David Nabarro, World Health Organization Special Envoy on COVID-19, for a talk titled "Addressing the dual challenges of climate change and COVID-19" with welcoming remarks from USC Pre... read more →

Implications of the Trump Administration’s Policies: Climate Change, Environment and Global Health

Posted on October 24, 2017April 4, 2019

Assistant Professor at Occidental College in the Urban and Environmental Policy Department, Mijin Cha, and Albert G. and Frances Lomas Feldman Professor of Social Policy and Health and also Chair of the Department of Children... read more →

USC to partner on air pollution and health study in Eastern Africa

Posted on October 13, 2015January 7, 2016

We are honored to be working with Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia to develop the newly funded GEOHealth Network as part of the Eastern Africa GEOHealth Hub—one of seven hubs around the world. Over the next five years, U.... read more →

Climate change and human rights: Roles, responsibilities, and actions

Posted on April 1, 2014August 21, 2018

The world's climate is changing, with insidious effects that steadily erode the quality of life of those who depend on the environment. The dramatic effects of this change are evident in the form of an exceptional accumulatio... read more →