Join us for the 2024 Doug Walker Lecture
Join Dr. Nooshin Razani as she shares her insights on how spending time in nature can be a powerful treatment for various health conditions. With a career dedicated to preserving natural spaces and enhancing human health, Dr. Razani’s talk offers a unique perspective on the therapeutic benefits of engagement with the natural world. Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the vital connection between the environment and well-being.
Healthy by Nature: How connecting with the environment can boost your well-being, with Dr. Nooshin Razani
Friday, October 25, 2024 | 6:30 p.m.
Town Hall Seattle, The Forum
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
$8, includes pre-reception
About the speaker
Dr. Nooshin Razani is a pediatrician, researcher and passionate advocate of the healing power of nature. She is the founder and director of the Center for Nature and Health, based at University of California, San Fransisco Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. The Center conducts original research related to nature and health, helps health care practitioners incorporate nature into their practice and provides clinical care in nature. Dr. Razani is an attending physician at UCSF Benioff Oakland’s Ambulatory Department and Assistant Clinical Scientist at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute.
Dr. Razani attended medical school at UCSF, completed a pediatric residency at the Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Razani has conducted primary research on the clinical applications of nature, given presentations about nature and health across the U.S. and published peer reviewed articles about the topic.
About the lecture series
The annual Doug Walker Lecture is named for Doug Walker, who was instrumental to the founding of the College of the Environment in 2009 as a co-chair of the Advisory Board and passionate advocate for the environment. Doug passed away tragically in 2016. In order to carry on and amplify Doug’s passion for outdoor recreation and his unending desire for learning, the College of the Environment hosts this annual lecture on health and nature.
Previous lectures
- 2023 Doug Walker Lecture with Heather Tallis, Building Resilience: Future-forward solutions for nature, health and the urban environment
- 2022 Doug Walker Lecture with Jamie Stroble, Climate Crisis: Finding Hope in Action and Community
- 2021 Doug Walker Lecture with Paulette Jordan and Sally Jewell
- 2020 Doug Walker Lecture with Jonathan Foley and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
- 2019 Doug Walker Lecture with J. Drew Lanham
- 2018 Doug Walker Lecture with Richard Louv
