[New AGU_GeoHealth] Ryan et al. Appalachian State link low greenspace with high mental health prevalence among young people, especially substance use disorders. Interventions need to consider community structures, such as rurality.

Registration for Advancing Health Equity in Rural Communities is open! Join me on May 20, 2024. whova.com/portal/registr…

Our Director, Chip Konrad said "Great to see three people with connections, prior or present, with the SERCC!" @AshleyWardNC Maggie Sugg northcarolinahealthnews.org/2024/06/18/thi…

Dr. Maggie Sugg, associate professor in Appalachian State Geography & Planning, is interviewed about heat vulnerability in this The New York Times story by Dionne Searcey: nytimes.com/2024/06/20/cli…

Environmental Health Perspectives The more temperatures rose, the more pregnant women were admitted to the hospital for psychiatric issues. For example, a 9°F rise in temperature was associated with a 7–15% increase in the number of emergency department visits by pregnant patients.

If Republican leaders don't enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.

🔥There is a new version of the causalweight package for R (#rstats)! It now also contains #DifferenceInDifference estimators for binary and continuous treatments using causal #MachineLearning (to control for covariates in a data-driven way): rdocumentation.org/packages/causa… #EconTwitter

Join us at AppState - multiple faculty opening for climate science assistant professor appstate.peopleadmin.com/postings/47093

Strong commitment at the WHO African Region regional committee to address the impacts of #ClimateChange on #health. 🥅Goal: Resilient and sustainable health systems are built capable of coping with the adverse effects of climate change 👏World Health Organization (WHO) UN Climate Change COP29 Azerbaijan

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

App State’s Dr. Maggie Sugg awarded over $1.5 million to study climate disasters and youth mental health | Appalachian Today today.appstate.edu/2024/09/10/sugg

Go Maggie!! UNC Geography PhDs are doing such good work!! 🤩🤩🤩

Congratulations to Maggie Sugg, NCICS's Jennifer Runkle and @douglas_rao, and other researchers on receiving funding for important research on the effects of #climate change on the mental health of young people. A key goal is to inform improved response strategies.

What a warning for those in the southern Appalachains. #Helene

For context re: southern Appalachian flooding Asheville, NC has already had a 1,000 year return interval rainfall event over the past day...before #Helen gets there

Some have called the 1916 Western North Carolina flood "the flood to end all floods." Today, emergency management officials are warning that Helene could bring similar floods to Asheville and surrounding areas. ourstate.com/flood-of-1916/

My family & I are safe, however cell service, wifi, power & water are non-existent or severely limited. It really is devastating here in WNC. Our community needs critical emergency cell infrastructure & supplies. We cannot receive emails, load websites, plz communicate via text.

For App State Boone and Hickory campuses, classes will not meet until after Oct. 15. Adverse Weather Condition 3 (Closure) has been extended through 5pm Oct. 11. Residence halls, dining facilities and campus medical facilities remain open. More info: appstatealert.com

We are very fortunate to be able to share that our district has officially accounted for all of our students and staff in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. 💙

⚡ OUT NOW ⚡ The 2024 Report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. Read the latest assessment of the links between health and climate change: thelancet.com/journals/lance… #LancetClimate24