Making the Invisible Visible: Intervening on Cumulative Environmental Neurodevelopmental Risks Using a System Dynamics Approach

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Devon Payne-Sturges

Background: The combined effects of multiple environmental toxicants and social stressor exposures are widely recognized as important public health problems, likely contributing to health inequities. However cumulative environmental health risk and impacts have received little attention by US policy

Using Video for Impact at National Geographic Society

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Vanessa Serrao

Millions globally look to National Geographic for its long history of telling impactful stories. Founded in 1888 “for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge,” the organization’s original journal has evolved over the years. Vanessa Serrao is Executive Producer of National Geographic

Pliny In Tlatelolco: Natural History Between Two Worlds 

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Iris Montero

In the fall of 1576, an unlikely group of indigenous and European collaborators undertook a prolonged writing retreat in the Franciscan College of Tlatelolco, in today’s Mexico City. The task at hand was the production of a natural history of New Spain, as Mexico was called then, based on the model