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Elon University / Today at Elon / May 18 update from Vice President for Student Life Jon Dooley
Vice President for Scholar Lifetime Jon Dooley is supplying typical electronic mail update messages to maintain college students and mothers and fathers informed about the initiatives for a healthier Spring Semester.
Be aware: This is the ultimate weekly electronic mail update from Vice President of Pupil Life Jon Dooley of the 2021-22 tutorial year.

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Dear Pupils, College, and Staff,

Welcome to the closing weekly Healthier Elon email update for the tutorial calendar year.

Summary of updates in this message
- Standing updates
- Graduation info
- Healthy Elon insurance policies for spring and summer season
- Vaccination and booster data
Standing updates

The college dashboard is up to date on the Nutritious Elon site each and every weekday morning.

Graduation information

Normal seating configurations will be used for indoor Graduation occasions this 7 days individuals with health and fitness considerations could wish to don a mask in these venues. Tonight’s graduate Graduation ceremony and Friday’s undergraduate Graduation ceremonies will also be accessible through livestream. The total schedule of Commencement 7 days activities is out there on the Graduation internet site.

Asymptomatic tests in the McCoy Commons (Oaks Neighborhood) will be readily available for pupils, school, and team for the duration of frequently scheduled hrs by Thursday, Could 19.

Healthier Elon guidelines for spring and summer

Make sure you browse the May 3 e mail announcement to the group from Dr. Jeff Stein and the Nutritious Elon Committee pertaining to latest campus protocols and procedures for masking, testing, and quarantine/isolation through Wednesday, Might 25.

The Might 3 announcement also includes a quantity of specific alterations to campus procedures that will grow to be productive on Thursday, Could 26. Asymptomatic screening will be open in McCoy Commons for minimized hours through the summer.

Vaccination and booster details

Elon continues to have to have college students, and to strongly stimulate staff members, to get and post documentation of COVID-19 vaccination and booster. New and returning college students will be notified in early summer time through email about vaccination demands and documentation for future tutorial yr.

Supplemental data

The Infectious Sickness Response Group will continue to keep track of COVID-19 assistance from wellbeing industry experts and be completely ready to reinstate any important mitigation measures. We go on to establish suggestions, insurance policies and structures to aid college operations and community health and fitness, in gentle of lessons learned about the previous two a long time.

On May well 26, the Healthful Elon internet site will be adjusted to a single webpage with essential information and announcements about COVID-19, along with inbound links to campus methods that are obtainable for health and wellness challenges. A url to the new webpage will be situated in the footer of all Elon College webpages.

The Nutritious Elon facts line (336-278-2020) and the [email protected] and [email protected] email addresses will be suspended on May well 26 phone calls will be forwarded to the campus switchboard. College student Health Expert services and quite a few offices throughout campus, together with College student Care and Outreach, Mother or father Engagement, New Scholar Plans, and Human Methods will go on to serve as information and facts means for concerns.

This is the last e mail update for the academic 12 months. Thank you for looking at these messages and being educated about the effects of the pandemic at Elon College. As necessary, you will acquire essential pandemic-connected information and facts by way of your Elon electronic mail account through the summer months. Make sure you verify your campus e mail frequently so you can be conscious of updates and information that may perhaps influence you.

Ideal wishes for a harmless, healthy, and restful summer season.

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Dr. Jon Dooley

Vice President for Student Everyday living
May 19, 2022
Pollution and health: a progress update
Summary

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that pollution was responsible for 9 million premature deaths in 2015, making it the world’s largest environmental risk factor for disease and premature death. We have now updated this estimate using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuriaes, and Risk Factors Study 2019. We find that pollution remains responsible for approximately 9 million deaths per year, corresponding to one in six deaths worldwide. Reductions have occurred in the number of deaths attributable to the types of pollution associated with extreme poverty. However, these reductions in deaths from household air pollution and water pollution are offset by increased deaths attributable to ambient air pollution and toxic chemical pollution (ie, lead). Deaths from these modern pollution risk factors, which are the unintended consequence of industrialisation and urbanisation, have risen by 7{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} since 2015 and by over 66{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} since 2000. Despite ongoing efforts by UN agencies, committed groups, committed individuals, and some national governments (mostly in high-income countries), little real progress against pollution can be identified overall, particularly in the low-income and middle-income countries, where pollution is most severe. Urgent attention is needed to control pollution and prevent pollution-related disease, with an emphasis on air pollution and lead poisoning, and a stronger focus on hazardous chemical pollution. Pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss are closely linked. Successful control of these conjoined threats requires a globally supported, formal science–policy interface to inform intervention, influence research, and guide funding. Pollution has typically been viewed as a local issue to be addressed through subnational and national regulation or, occasionally, using regional policy in higher-income countries. Now, however, it is increasingly clear that pollution is a planetary threat, and that its drivers, its dispersion, and its effects on health transcend local boundaries and demand a global response. Global action on all major modern pollutants is needed. Global efforts can synergise with other global environmental policy programmes, especially as a large-scale, rapid transition away from all fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy is an effective strategy for preventing pollution while also slowing down climate change, and thus achieves a double benefit for planetary health.
Commission findings on pollution and health

Pollution— ie, unwanted waste of human origin released to air, land, water, and the ocean without regard for cost or consequence—is an existential threat to human health and planetary health, and jeopardises the sustainability of modern societies. Pollution includes contamination of air by fine particulate matter (PM_2·5); ozone; oxides of sulphur and nitrogen; freshwater pollution; contamination of the ocean by mercury, nitrogen, phosphorus, plastic, and petroleum waste; and poisoning of the land by lead, mercury, pesticides, industrial chemicals, electronic waste, and radioactive waste.

The 2017 Lancet Commission on pollution and health, which used data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2015, found that pollution was responsible for an estimated 9 million deaths (16{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of all deaths globally) and for economic losses totalling US$ 4·6 trillion (6·2{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} of global economic output) in 2015.

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The Lancet Commission on pollution and health.