Ladd KeithFeb 27

Honored to be selected as a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science (FoS) Fellow and serve as an introductory speaker for the heat and human health panel during next week's FoS Symposium!

https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-heat-policy-experts-present-annual-frontiers-science-symposium

#extremeheat #heathealth #heatresilience #NAS #FrontiersofScience

U of A heat policy experts to present at annual Frontiers of Science symposium

The National Academy of Sciences event, designed to highlight the work of early-career scientists, will include a panel featuring Ufuoma Ovienmhada and her work on heat health in prisons. Ladd Keith, a heat governance policy expert, will present the panel introduction.

University of Arizona News
Ladd KeithFeb 18
New story out on our 3rd Southern Arizona Heat Summit: "There's not any other city in the United States that's doing a continual heat summit like this with the range of partners that we have, so I think that's something to be really proud of. That said, of course, we still have a lot more work to do which is why we're all here." https://news.arizona.edu/news/southern-arizona-heat-summit-highlights-youth-voices-while-helping-tucson-prepare-extreme-heat #extremeheat #heatresilience #heathealth #climatechange
Southern Arizona Heat Summit highlights youth voices while helping Tucson prepare for extreme heat

The Southern Arizona Heat Planning Summit helps officials prepare for and protect vulnerable citizens during increasing extreme heat events and has led to an international reputation for excellence in heat planning and preparedness.

University of Arizona News
Ladd KeithFeb 9
New co-authored paper out, where we find heat-related emergency medical service activations increased 65% from 2019 to 2024 across the U.S. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2844697?guestAccessKey=65fc7f79-6a23-4c7b-a069-e3f3532a9ff2&utm_source=jps&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=author_alert-jamanetwork&utm_content=author-author_engagement&utm_term=1m #heathealth #extremeheat #heatresilience
Trends and Disparities in Heat-Related Emergency Medical Services Activations

This study compares US sociodemographic and geographic trends in heat-related and non–heat-related emergency medical services (EMS) activations from 2019 to 2024.

Ladd KeithNov 6
Excited to join the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center's new Heat Resilience Exchange as a Senior Advisor, along with Kelly Turner and @SaraMeerow! I appreciate our colleagues at the Climate Resilience Center further supporting the communities we had begun critical heat action planning with at the NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities. https://onebillionresilient.org/2025/11/06/appoint-chief-heat-ambassador/
#heatresilience #extremeheat #heatactionplanning
The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center appoints Jane Gilbert as Chief Heat Ambassador

The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center announced the appointment of Jane Gilbert as its first chief heat ambassador.

Climate Resilience Center
Ladd KeithNov 5
Check out the new University of Arizona feature on the climate research we're doing across the state's three universities and with our students through the SW-IFL to help make Arizona more resilient. https://news.arizona.edu/news/how-u-students-braved-summer-sun-help-communities-become-heat-resilient #climatechange #extremeheat #heatresilience
How U of A students braved the summer sun to help communities become heat resilient

More than 150 students across all three state universities have been involved in a Department of Energy program to help communities understand and respond to extreme heat. Their work, researchers said, was crucial to gathering data that will inform researchers' advice to city planners.

University of Arizona News
Ladd KeithSep 8, 2025
New interview in Scientific American “My advice is to learn from the places that have been caught off guard and do your proactive planning before it happens to you.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/extreme-heat-in-u-s-schools-disproportionately-affects-marginalized-students/ #extremeheat #heatresilience
Extreme Heat in U.S. Schools Disproportionately Affects Marginalized Students

The first national study of its kind shows that children from marginalized communities are more exposed to extreme heat events

Scientific American
Ladd KeithSep 4, 2025

Sharing my University of Arizona TEDx Talk about how the world is currently experiencing a "heatshed" moment and we need more research and action on heat mitigation, heat management, and heat governance to advance equitable heat resilience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8RErIjDWWc
#extremeheat #heatresilience #heatgovernance #tedxtalks #tedx #uarizona

Ladd KeithAug 29, 2025
"As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies—windcatchers, clay walls, and shaded courtyards—that kept cities habitable long before air-conditioning." https://atmos.earth/the-future-of-cooling-was-invented-thousands-of-years-ago/ #heatresilience #extremeheat #architecture
The Future of Cooling Was Invented Thousands of Years Ago | Atmos

As buildings crack under record heat, architects are rediscovering ancient technologies.

Atmos
Ladd KeithAug 19, 2025

Our new paper, led by Kelli Archie, is out, where we engaged 144 U.S. heat practitioners about their climate service needs. We find the two most impactful "needs" are regularly updated local-scale extreme heat data and more information on heat impacts across systems. We also found rural practitioners were less likely to report information needs as being impactful than urban respondents, building more evidence about the urban-rural gap in heat resilience practice.

Full open-access paper at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880725000676 #extremeheat #heatresilience #climateservices

Ladd KeithAug 7, 2025
We have a new paper out led by Lauren Jensen, with @SaraMeerow, Phil Berke, Erika Schmidt, & Shaylynn Trego applying the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) for Heat in two Boston neighborhoods! Our study highlights the importance of considering neighborhood-level plans through approaches such as PIRS™ for Heat to better understand how well a city is planning to mitigate heat. Please reach out to me for a PDF of the paper if you're not able to access it. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2025.2526494 #extremeheat #urbanplanning #planintegration #heatresilience