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In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, join APHA’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity for an interactive workshop on how to design mental health interventions with a public health approach, focusing on how to engage and prioritize vulnerable populations.
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Ben Fulgencio-Turner is the Director of the Climate for Health program, a national initiative of ecoAmerica to build climate leadership and action in the health sector, advancing solutions that protect personal and community health. Ben started his career as a community organizer in New Orleans, supporting neighborhood leaders and building power in communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina. He studied and worked within systems of safety-net health care for over fourteen years, developing cross-sector partnerships to address root causes of health inequities, and working closely with providers serving Medicaid and uninsured populations. Ben received a BA from Tulane University and a Masters in Public Policy from Georgetown University focusing on systems of healthcare finance and delivery.
Evelyn Maldonado received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Policy with a concentration in Land Use from the University of Maryland. She currently works as a Program Associate for the American Public Health Association's Center for Climate, Health and Equity where she leads and supports projects focused on climate and health education.
Shelbi Davis is a Senior Analyst on the Environmental Health team at ASTHO, where she coordinates ASTHO’s Peer-to-Peer Fellowship Programs: Climate and Health, and Environmental Public Health Tracking. She also leads ASTHO’s Climate Change Collaborative (CCC), a platform for state and territorial health agency staff who are working on the public health impacts of climate change and extreme weather events, to collaborate and learn from one another, as well as share resources, opportunities, and best practices. Prior to joining ASTHO, Shelbi worked at two local health agencies in the Austin, TX area, and was part of the COVID-19 response and case investigation team. She graduated from the University of Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. Shelbi has also earned a certificate in Climate Change and Health from Yale University.
Bob Doppelt founded and coordinates the International
Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC), a network of mental health,
social service, disaster management, climate, and faith organizations and
professionals (website:
http://itrcoalitionorg). He
is trained in both counseling psychology and environmental science and
has combined the two fields throughout his career. He is also a Graduate
of the International Program on the Management of Sustainability, in Ziest,
The Netherlands, a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Instructor,
and mindfulness teacher (Sprit Rock Meditation Center). He is also a former
Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center.
Bob
is the author of a number of books on the interface between individual and
community mental health, social change, and ecological regeneration. His
newest book
Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas: A Guide for
Building Resilience and Hope in Communities
describes the outcomes of an
intensive two year research project that determined that a public health
approach to mental health is necessary to prevent and heal the accelerating
individual, community, and societal traumas generated by the global climate
mega-emergency.