About the Project
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai graduate Adrienne Dean worked with the FXB Climate Advocates: Preparing Student Advocates for Climate Change and Health Program to develop an educational curriculum and research project on the effects of climate change on health. The project’s goals were to: 1) develop an urban health climate change curriculum, 2) guide student research projects to understand
the impact of climate change on the health of their communities and, 3) develop student proposed interventions. The project also included research into the establishment of cooling centers in the state of Massachusetts, urban reforestation in the state of New York, and diminishing coastal flooding in the state of New Jersey.
About the Project Organization
“FXB International is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with over 30 years of experience in breaking the cycle of poverty. Children’s rights are at the heart of FXB’s actions, and each of its programs is a response to the concrete implementation – in the daily lives of children – of their rights as defined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted on November 20, 1989. FXB programs also integrate most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) to reach the 2030 agenda. 18 million adults and children have already benefited from our programs.
FXB USA focuses on climate change through the FXB Climate Advocates Program.”
About the Student
Adrienne Dean is a graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai having earned her Master of Public Health (MPH) degree with a concentration in epidemiology and biostatistics.