Dr. Weiss has worked as an epidemiologist in a Public Health career spanning over thirty years. He directed academic injury research centers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ) and founded and coordinated the injury prevention program at the Wisconsin Department of Health. He is currently Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health.
How We Know What We Know: Public Health to Climate Disruption and Back Again
With so much utter disconnect between the science and the unprecedented risk that further delay or lack of effective policy countermeasures will likely have on public health and societal well-being, it’s probably a good time to look (yet again) at why most climate scientists believe what they do and why theri warnings need to be urgently heeded.
January 16, 2017
Haiti’s Overshoot of Habitat Capacity, Energy Constraints and Preceding Environmental Disasters Amplifies Nature’s Fury
As others have pointed out, many of Haiti’s problems have been related to its population density, associated environmental degradation and its need for cheap energy. Now, with the worst earthquake shaking the Caribbean in 200 years, we must sadly add another chapter to the Haitian book chronicling the linkage between its human and ecological disasters.
January 15, 2010