Others' Ideas that Resonate

Environmental Health:

Articles:

• Assessing the health burden from air pollution -- Science perspective, 2024

• StoryMap: "Air Pollution and Health: The Global Impacts of Fossil Fuels" -- State of Global Air, 2023

• Engaging Socially Vulnerable Communities and Communicating About Climate Change -- NASEM, 2023

• Leveraging Air Quality Research Advancements to Assess and Address Exposure Inequities -- Goldman, 2023. Environmental Health Perspectives

• Are “safe” exposure levels really “safe”? -- Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, 2023

• Western lawmakers spot opening in smoke crisis -- Axios, 2023

• A conversation on air pollution in the United States -- Nature Geoscience, 2023

• Naming civic health in environmental justice discourse: The Jackson water crisis -- Nwanaji-Enwerem & Casey, 2022

• Flipping the Climate Debate from Costs to Benefits -- Anenberg, 2021. Environmental Health News

• Tackling Air Pollution and Climate Justice Together -- Moses & Roy, 2021. Environmental Defense Fund

• Closing the Data Gap: A Cost-Effective Way to Improve [Global] Air Quality -- Hasenkopf, 2021. World Economic Forum

• Air Pollution Diminishes Future Generations' Economic Opportunities -- Voorheis, 2021. US Census

• Using Feedback to Improve Accountability in Global Environmental Health and Engineering -- Thomas & Brown, 2020​

• Is AI revolutionizing environmental health? (Simply Statistics -- Peng, 2019). In general, this blog has a lot of cool posts for data scientists and educators.

Videos:

• Environmental Health Disparities - An Overview (Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health) -- Mendonça, 2021

• ClimateBits: Unhealthy Air -- 2019. 

• What is Environmental Health? -- NYU School of Global Public Health, 2019

Podcasts:

•  Agents of Change in Environmental Justice -- podcast featuring emerging leaders from historically excluded backgrounds in science and academia who are reimagining solutions for a just and healthy planet

• This is Your Brain on Pollution -- Freakonomics podcast, 2021

• Using Data Science to Study Air Pollution's Effect on Covid-19 (Women in Data Science podcast) -- Dominici & Nethery, 2020

• Atmospheric Tales -- podcast discussing global environmental health, 2020 onwards

• Decolonizing Air Pollution Science -- deSouza, 2020 / MIT Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) Radio (overall archive). Stories and reflections on the interplay of science and technology with community development and planning.

Feature-length / series:

• How air pollution impacts our brains, 2024

• NASEM Climate Crossroads Summit 2023 (video playlist)

• NASEM Workshop on Communities, Climate Change, and Health Equity – Lessons Learned in Addressing Inequities in Heat-Related Climate Change Impacts (2023)

• HSPH Climate, Health, & Equity Symposium 2023

• Health Effects Institute (HEI) Science on the 7th -- series discussing current critical topics in air quality and global health

• Clearing the Air: Why Now Is the Time to Tackle Global Air Pollution -- HSPH + WHO + CNN, 2021

• Taking the Temperature: Your Health, Our Climate, and What We Can Do About It -- Mazumder, 2021. Harvard Science in the News series.

• The Story of Plastic (2019). Documentary examining issues and opportunities throughout the lifecycle of plastic.

• Dark Waters (2019). Dramatic recreation of Rob Bilott's case against the chemical manufacturing company DuPont after they contaminated a town with unregulated chemicals. **For more information on the environmental health science occurring behind the scenes, check out the C8 Science Panel website.**

• Collaborative on Health and the Environment: Climate Change and Health, 2019. Collection of videos, focusing on the topics of extreme heat, air pollution, extreme weather events, and infectious diseases.

• The Crowd & the Cloud -- Abdalati, 2017. Video series discussing citizen science used in environmental health applications.

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Data Science / Statistics:

Articles:​​

• Big data in Earth science: Emerging practice and promise -- Science review, 2024

• Democratizing the future of AI R&D: NSF to launch National AI Research Resource pilot (2024)

• What Should Data Science Education Do with Large Language Models? -- Tu et al, 2023

• NASA and IBM Openly Release Geospatial AI Foundation Model for NASA Earth Observation Data (2023)

• Strengthening [global] public health systems through artificial intelligence -- HSPH, 2023

• Harvard Graduate Transforms High School Math Curriculum: Skew The Script, a nonprofit organization, provides free, socially-relevant math + statistics lessons to high school teachers across the country -- Harvard Data Science Initiative, 2023

• Apple Women’s Health Study advances understanding of menstrual cycles and health (2023) --Example of thoughtful data collection generating insights that are highly relevant for both clinicians and policy makers.

• Is there a role for statistics in artificial intelligence? -- Friedrich et al, 2021

• What are the Most Important Statistical Ideas of the Past 50 Years? -- Gelman & Vehtari, 2021

• Artificial Intelligence's Promise & Peril (2021) -- Harvard School of Public Health

• ​Twitter thread: best data visualizations (2021)

• What Are the Values of Data, Data Science, or Data Scientists? -- Meng, 2021. Harvard Data Science Review editorial piece.

• Statistics Monitors the Environment and Statistics Informs Health Policy -- ASA Statistical Significance Series

• The ASCCR Frame for Learning Essential Collaboration Skills -- Vance & Smith, 2019

• Career of Gertrude M. Cox -- NC State Library

Podcasts:

• Mental Health Challenges: How Can Data Science Help? -- Harvard Data Science Review Podcast, 2021

• Casual Inference podcast by Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, specifically this episode featuring Roger Peng: "Why Everyone is Excited About Causal Inference These Days" (2020)

Feature-length / series: 

• Shaping the Future of AI -- National Academies; one insightful discussion can be found in the "Navigating Ethical Dilemmas" section in this article

• Stop Explaining Black Box Machine Learning Models for High Stakes Decisions and Use Interpretable Models Instead (Harvard Data Science Initiative Bias^2 seminar) -- Rudin, 2021

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Miscellaneous:

Articles:

• The Human Implications of AI with Brian Christian -- NASEM, 2024

• Time to support Indigenous science -- Wall Kimmerer & Artelle, 2024

• How are you saving the world? -- Parast, 2023

• All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job -- Todd (80,000 Hours), 2023

• Field-Specific Ability Beliefs as an Explanation for Gender Differences in Academics’ Career Trajectories: Evidence From Public Profiles on ORCID.org -- Hannak et al, 2023

• Increasing Women’s Representation in STEM Fields -- Gray, 2023

• Which food is better for the planet? -- Washington Post Climate Lab (2023). Interactive visualizations comparing different food types over various environmental dimensions.

• A list of the most high-impact, evidence-based organizations fighting climate change -- Samuel, 2022

• Rethinking international development strategy—and hearing echoes of global challenges in the United States -- Harvard Kennedy School faculty, 2022

• Impostors Anonymous -- Witten, 2022. Helpful thoughts on impostor syndrome in academia / high-achievement communities.

• My experience with imposter syndrome—and how to (partly) overcome it -- Rodriguez (80,000 Hours), 2022

• Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half -- Sparkman, Geiger, & Weber, 2022.

• In academia, we need two types of researchers: divers and surfers -- Pandya, 2022

• Putting Mental Health in America on the Map -- Geraghty (ESRI), 2022

• How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall -- The Atlantic, 2021

• Effective Altruism: An Update to Our Thinking On Climate Change -- Ackva, 2020

• Five Ways To Prioritize Better -- Bye, 2020

Videos:

• 200 Years in 4 Minutes -- Rosling, 2017. Global relationships between lifespan and income over time, across countries. Note: there are many videos of Rosling presenting other cool data visualizations

Podcasts:

• Degrees of Freedom -- Hasenkopf, 2020. Exploring many different ways that scientists can have positive impact through their careers.

• AAAS STPF Sci on the Fly. A variety of science and policy topics, written by scientists working in the federal government.

Feature-length / series:

• Harvard School of Public Health YouTube Channel

• Science x Policy Crossroads: Pathways toward Health Policy -- ten people's stories illustrating different careers at the intersection of science and policy, put together by the National Science Policy Network

• AAAS Voices: Countering Science Misinformation (2021)

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