Researchers of the Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Network, a group of clinical experts and scientists including those from the University of Washington's Department of Global Health, investigated how often, when, and why young children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia die when admitted to hospitals. 

Robert Jones, University of Washington's new President, now leads a school — and Seattle’s largest employer — that’s weathered several turbulent years of money problems, protests and a pandemic.

Kristie Ebi, Professor in the University of Washington's Department of Global Health and Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, mentions how toxic smoke caused by these fires can be due to containing more harmful components than we might think. “It’s not just leaves and branches and trees” that are burned, she said. “It’s buildings. It’s gasoline stations. It’s old houses that have asbestos in them. It’s automobiles. There are lots of components of wildfire smoke.”

Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and Global Environment at the University of Washington, told the Washington Post that "It is helpful to have more detailed analyses of temperature-morbidity relationships, to help identify interventions that could decrease hospitalizations during heat waves."

Scientists argue that the administration's new report, composed in less than two months by five authors known to have skeptical views on climate science, would not pass any peer review process. Kristie Kristie Ebi, a professor of global health at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, states that “There is a history of some of the authors of this document cherry-picking dates to show that there is no change, but they’re not providing the evidence to support that."

Kristie Ebi, a professor at the Center for Health and Global Environment at the University of Washington, explains that: “It remains problematic to trade off mortality and morbidity from hot versus cold temperature extremes. People are not fungible. The goal of public health is to prevent as much morbidity and mortality as possible.”