Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
@kristiwhitephd.bsky.social
Clinical Health Psychologist & Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine. Focused on #ClimateChange, #Sustainability, & #Health, #EnvironmentalJustice, & #CoBenefit Solutions
Posts, re-posts, etc. do not represent any org.
Posts, re-posts, etc. do not represent any org.
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social
What Makes Heat So Hard to Cover?
For journalists, the most urgent climate disaster is also the trickiest to report on.
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July 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social
I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the #ClimateCrisis.
🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I invite you to join me & my colleagues on Monday, April 21 for APA’s Essential Science Conversation where we will discuss how Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine can transform to address the #ClimateCrisis.
🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
🗓 April 21, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM CST
🔗 apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
Thank you to our fearless Program Committee chair for making this gathering possible 🤩 @kristiwhitephd.bsky.social #SBSM2025Seattle
March 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Thank you to our fearless Program Committee chair for making this gathering possible 🤩 @kristiwhitephd.bsky.social #SBSM2025Seattle
An important read for all healthcare professionals by @ericreinhart.bsky.social.
“In the face of demands to deny care or assist in persecuting targeted groups, health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters.”
H/T @chomilomd.bsky.social
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“In the face of demands to deny care or assist in persecuting targeted groups, health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters.”
H/T @chomilomd.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
Health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters
“Authoritarian regimes often rely on doctors and other health workers to provide a facade of legitimacy and willing hands armed with scalpels, syringes, pens, or simply locks on doors,” writes Eric Re...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
An important read for all healthcare professionals by @ericreinhart.bsky.social.
“In the face of demands to deny care or assist in persecuting targeted groups, health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters.”
H/T @chomilomd.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
“In the face of demands to deny care or assist in persecuting targeted groups, health workers face a stark choice: become collaborators or resisters.”
H/T @chomilomd.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/02/11/a...
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February 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
So…I’m noticing that there is still not a Minnesota chapter of @cleanairmoms.bsky.social…do we think there would be interest in creating one? 😬
February 5, 2025 at 1:02 AM
So…I’m noticing that there is still not a Minnesota chapter of @cleanairmoms.bsky.social…do we think there would be interest in creating one? 😬
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
January 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽💻
An excellent thread.
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1/12. Lots of engagement with this Walmart research post. I wanted to follow up on one of the themes I noticed in reactions. This will be a longer thread than I usually write, but I want to weave together a few related points on science (and communication about it), public engagement, and policy.
"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being."
Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
January 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
An excellent thread.
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Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
Hey #PsychSky,
To all Black-identified individuals in the field of #psychology (including psych trainees & psych organizations) who are new to #Bluesky & would like to join the "Black In Psychology" starter pack, let me know. I'm more than happy to add you!
Please help me share 🙏🏽
#Blacksky
To all Black-identified individuals in the field of #psychology (including psych trainees & psych organizations) who are new to #Bluesky & would like to join the "Black In Psychology" starter pack, let me know. I'm more than happy to add you!
Please help me share 🙏🏽
#Blacksky
December 31, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Hey #PsychSky,
To all Black-identified individuals in the field of #psychology (including psych trainees & psych organizations) who are new to #Bluesky & would like to join the "Black In Psychology" starter pack, let me know. I'm more than happy to add you!
Please help me share 🙏🏽
#Blacksky
To all Black-identified individuals in the field of #psychology (including psych trainees & psych organizations) who are new to #Bluesky & would like to join the "Black In Psychology" starter pack, let me know. I'm more than happy to add you!
Please help me share 🙏🏽
#Blacksky
Posting this here for folks looking for our TBM paper from a couple of years ago on how #ClimateChange exacerbates #HealthInequities rooted in #StructuralRacism & the role of #BehavioralMedicine in addressing them. 🙏🏻🌍💚
👀 Open access link here ➡️ academic.oup.com/tbm/article/...
👀 Open access link here ➡️ academic.oup.com/tbm/article/...
The Role of Behavioral Medicine in Addressing Climate Change-Related Health Inequities
This paper calls upon behavioral medicine to address factors that contribute to structural racism and other underlying causes of climate-related health ine
academic.oup.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Posting this here for folks looking for our TBM paper from a couple of years ago on how #ClimateChange exacerbates #HealthInequities rooted in #StructuralRacism & the role of #BehavioralMedicine in addressing them. 🙏🏻🌍💚
👀 Open access link here ➡️ academic.oup.com/tbm/article/...
👀 Open access link here ➡️ academic.oup.com/tbm/article/...
🚨New pub alert!🚨 So wonderful to have the chance to spotlight the work of #EnvironmentalJustice champions out there. TY @sbm.org & @rogerfigphd.bsky.social for the nomination & to @drnogueira.bsky.social & Adewale Oyeyemi for being amazing co-lead authors. 💚🌎
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Promoting Equitable Human and Planetary Health Co-Benefits: An Opportunity for U.S. Leadership - Kristi E. White, Leticia M. Nogueira, Adewale L. Oyeyemi, 2024
Climate change is a public health emergency, and many communities have called on policymakers to address its far-reaching consequences on human and planetary he...
journals.sagepub.com
December 9, 2024 at 11:30 PM
🚨New pub alert!🚨 So wonderful to have the chance to spotlight the work of #EnvironmentalJustice champions out there. TY @sbm.org & @rogerfigphd.bsky.social for the nomination & to @drnogueira.bsky.social & Adewale Oyeyemi for being amazing co-lead authors. 💚🌎
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Yessss!!!
While I have your attention, I'm actually going to be talking about these issues--environmental (in)justice--tomorrow afternoon as part of a free webinar on conservation, access, and human well-being. You can register here if interested:
apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
December 3, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Yessss!!!
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
According to this new study, our paper is among the 1% of environmental psychology papers that engaged with the role of racism in the 55-year history of two of the large journals. Those journals published 4,500 papers in that time; only 45 mentioned racism. 1/n.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Does environmental psychology afford an “effective context” for the study of structural racism?
Recent manifestations of racial violence have renewed conversations about structural racism. An important question for psychologists concerns how they…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 AM
According to this new study, our paper is among the 1% of environmental psychology papers that engaged with the role of racism in the 55-year history of two of the large journals. Those journals published 4,500 papers in that time; only 45 mentioned racism. 1/n.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
#APS2024UK attendees starting to think of your schedule - please join us for a panel on putting equity and antiracism into practice on Thursday, March 21st from 11:30-12:30. I'm moderating! (1/2)
March 15, 2024 at 4:52 PM
#APS2024UK attendees starting to think of your schedule - please join us for a panel on putting equity and antiracism into practice on Thursday, March 21st from 11:30-12:30. I'm moderating! (1/2)
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Organized by the AntiRacism Task Force, we are excited to bring together scholars across academic and healthcare settings to discuss centering antiracism and health equity in their work (2/2) @drmikestanton.bsky.social @kristiwhitephd.bsky.social
March 15, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Organized by the AntiRacism Task Force, we are excited to bring together scholars across academic and healthcare settings to discuss centering antiracism and health equity in their work (2/2) @drmikestanton.bsky.social @kristiwhitephd.bsky.social
Reposted by Kristi E. White, Ph.D., ABPP (she/her)
Hi American Psychosomatic Society Members, the Antiracism Task Force is recruiting a new member. Come join a collaborative group that is leading change to support our goal of becoming an antiracist society! (1/2)
November 11, 2023 at 3:47 PM
Hi American Psychosomatic Society Members, the Antiracism Task Force is recruiting a new member. Come join a collaborative group that is leading change to support our goal of becoming an antiracist society! (1/2)