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The Summer Series: An Intro to Extreme Heat
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On the first episode of our Summer Series, Lisa Patel sits down with Marc Futernic, an emergency medicine physician in California (and future Summer Series host!). Listen along as they lay the groundwork on the health harms of extreme heat and what health professionals and patients might need to know as temperatures rise.
Referenced this episode:
Heat and Learning: Evidence from 21 million PSAT Scores: https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/hot-classrooms-us-negatively-impact-learning
Ambient outdoor heat and accelerated epigenetic aging among older adults in the US: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0616
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Healthy Climate America is produced by Lucy Walker. Our podcast interns are Isaias Segui and Mathilda Tataw. Savannah Martincic is our manager of communication. A sincere thank you to Adam Karl for his support in the editing process. Our music was composed by James Harp.
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