AzCRH Webinar: Stories of Extreme Heat

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Extreme heat in urban area.

When

noon to 1 p.m., April 20, 2023

Presenter: 

Melissa Guardaro is an Assistant Research Professor in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global institute of Sustainability and Innovation at Arizona State University and works for the Healthy Urban Environments Initiative (HUE) and Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (KER). Her research focuses on adaptation, equity, vulnerability, urban policy, and governance for the mitigation and adaptation to extreme heat and urban heat island effects. She is currently co-leading the Arizona Heat Resilience Workgroup which coordinates regional heat mitigation and adaptation efforts. Melissa leads the Arizona Cooling Center working group, whose mission is to use data to inform cooling center strategies and to promote collaboration across the public, private and non-profit sectors.

Learning objectives:

  • Understand the causes of extreme heat and the impacts
  • Be aware of attitudes and perceptions of heat risk
  • Demonstrate the mitigation and adaptation solutions currently being developed and used, especially in urban areas.

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This webinar is made possible through funding provided by Health Resources and Services Administration, Office for the Advancement of Telehealth (U1U42527). Arizona State Office of Rural Health is funded granted through a grant from US Department of Health and Human Services. Grant number H95RH00102-25-00.  This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, DHHS or the U.S. Government.

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