Audience: Health Community

When communicating about science, prioritize inclusion, equity, and intersectionality. Communicating science can be hard, and in particular it can be hard to communicate in an inclusive, respectful way that incorporates diverse perspectives and backgrounds. Inclusive science communication works to encourage folks to acknowledge systemic inequities and personal biases, while increase diverse and collaborative participation in and quality of STEMM (science, technology, meth and medicine) research. In this starter kit, you’ll find the key traits of inclusive science communication (intentionality, reciprocity, and reflexivity), as well as tools in how to incorporate those traits into your own work.

California and the US are increasingly beset by climate-fueled disasters like wildfires, extreme heat, and power blackouts. These events put additional stress on frayed hard and social infrastructure systems, and disproportionately impact working-class communities of color. To adapt to these changes, society must update our notion of disaster response to increase resilience in these systems before disasters strike. This report offers two models for this response: 1) building and normalizing resilience hubs where community members gather and organize both in good times and bad, and 2) increasing in-home resilience by recognizing homecare workers as effective agents for assisting vulnerable populations and bridging authorities and the frontlines. The report goes on to recommend specific ways to set up resilience hubs, train care workers, and develop forward-thinking emergency response plans to avert human disasters after natural disasters.