 From Our Speaker
The long lag between scientific understanding and the adoption of policy measures that can reduce harmful impacts on human and environmental health parallels the well-known “bench-to-bedside” lag in medicine. Implementation science, developed in the health domain, offers concepts and tools that also have potential applicability for environmental problems. Implementation science for the environment could also benefit from synergies with actionable research and the concept of small wins. In this talk, I will examine the synergies among these approaches, the barriers that conventional academic incentives pose to their application, and how academic research institutions could contribute more effectively to addressing the world’s most pressing issues.
Bio
Since 2023, Janet Hering has been Director Emerita of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science & Technology (Eawag) and Professor Emerita at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) and Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to moving to Switzerland in 2007, Prof. Em. Hering was a faculty member at Caltech and UCLA. She is a former Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Technology and former member of the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Academia Europaea. |
October 1, 2024
