Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne
yoshira.bsky.social
Yoshira Ornelas Van Horne
@yoshira.bsky.social
Assistant Prof EHS @UCLA | Chicana Exposure Scientist 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | CBPR, Indigenous Health, EJ | Asst. Dir. @AgentschangeEJ | #firstgen
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We are excited to announce the Agents of Change Fellows in Residence Program! Our reimagined fellowship is an effort to deepen our impact on decision-making and provide additional support to six senior fellows in their path towards creating more impactful research. www.ehn.org/agents-of-ch...
Agents of Change launches the Fellows in Residence program
Meet the senior fellows that will hone their communication and public engagement skills.
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June 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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A global review finds most heat-health plans mention #mentalhealth but lack real interventions. As extreme #heat intensifies, researchers call for targeted support to protect vulnerable communities. #ClimateAdaptation #PublicHealth
DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s405...
Most heat-health plans neglect mental health risks from extreme heat • Muser Press
A new review published in Current Environmental Health Reports offers a global assessment of how mental health is addressed in official heat-health action plans
www.muser.press
May 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The bill is still a mess but this is a win. Thank you, America. They heard you. House Republicans have dropped the provision that would’ve sold off 500,000 acres of public land in Utah and Nevada.
May 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Super Bowl Sunday is tomorrow!

Key stat - amount of economic activity from NIH awards

Chiefs (representing MO): $1.89B

Eagles (representing PA): $5.23B

Whose Senators and Reps will step up first to protect their states from drastic cuts?

www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org
February 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.

—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.

Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
10 years ago I saw through my first Environmental Justice lecture, wishing, hoping, and plotting on how I could contribute to the space. Here we are now. Teaching EJ in the core course for MPH students at Columbia. We’ve come along way EHS/Public Health.
September 21, 2023 at 11:34 PM