Uploaded December 2024 | Updated September 2026, 32 minutes ago
Many of the interventions designed to protect people from the effects of climate change either don’t work, or are effective in research studies but fail in the real world. Inversely, many “best practices” lack supporting evidence. How can reporters know which plans are worthy of attention? There’s a science to coming up with real solutions to complex problems like climate change, and scientists must engage with the communities in need of interventions to have any hope of true success. In this presentation to journalists, Lee Newman, Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health, offered the example of his research with greenhouse workers and share a checklist journalists can use to identify when the cardinal principles of implementation science are or are not being applied.
This talk was part of a workshop, "Living and Working on a Hot Planet: Reporting on Climate Change and Human Health," presented Nov. 8, 2024 in Raleigh, NC by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing in connection with ScienceWriters2024. The program was curated by Amber Dance, CASW New Horizons Program Director.
Many of the interventions designed to protect people from the effects of climate change either don’t work, or are effective in research studies but fail in the real world. Inversely, many “best practices” lack supporting evidence. How can reporters know which plans are worthy of attention? There’s a science to coming up with real solutions to complex problems like climate change, and scientists must engage with the communities in need of interventions to have any hope of true success. In this presentation to journalists, Lee Newman, Distinguished Professor and director of the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado School of Public Health, offered the example of his research with greenhouse workers and share a checklist journalists can use to identify when the cardinal principles of implementation science are or are not being applied.
This talk was part of a workshop, "Living and Working on a Hot Planet: Reporting on Climate Change and Human Health," presented Nov. 8, 2024 in Raleigh, NC by the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing in connection with ScienceWriters2024. The program was curated by Amber Dance, CASW New Horizons Program Director.
