Marin County residents have invested in the preservation and slowing climate change as well as wellness and mental health through personal action, group advocacy, ballot measures, and philanthropy. Please join us as Dr. Jennifer Pinto-Martin talks about the nexus between climate change and mental health. Dr. Pinto-Martin’s talk will focus on climate change-related anxiety and mental distress, including 1) what is currently known about the prevalence of eco-anxiety among children globally as well as 2) results from two pilot studies exploring climate-change-related mental health among children in the Galapagos as well as children and adults in the Eastwick community of Philadelphia.

Jennifer Pinto-Martin, PhD, MPH
Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and
Professor, Perelman School of Medicine
Jennifer Pinto-Martin is the Viola MacInnes/Independence Professor in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, with a
secondary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine. She currently serves as Ombuds for the University. She recently completed
10 years as Executive Director of UPenn’s Center for Public Health Initiatives. Jennifer received her undergraduate degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and her masters and
doctoral degrees in public health/ epidemiology from UC Berkeley. Her research has been primarily focused on the etiology of autism spectrum disorder and she directed the Pennsylvania Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, one of six such centers funded by the Centers for Disease Control, from 2006-2018. Her current research interest is the mental health sequelae of climate change and climate disaster, ranging from climate anxiety and depression to PTSD.
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