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The Great Indoors | Designing for Social Connectedness in the Time of COVID

In the midst of these uncertain times, businesses across the globe are looking for new ways to support employee wellbeing and maintain social connectivity in both virtual and physical environments.  In an interview with Tarkett, a sustainable design company, SHINE’s Executive Director, Eileen McNeely shares about the opportunities that companies have to tackle well-being of their employees from a multi-dimensional point of view. Q) Please can you tell us more…

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New paper on the influence of the residential environment on undergraduate students’ health

SHINE Director, Eileen McNeely recently contributed to the latest paper published in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology on the influence of the residential environment on undergraduate students’ health. University campuses represent an opportunity to advance the understanding of how the built environment influences health. The study team used de-identified billing codes from a private university clinic serving undergraduate students for academic years 2008 through 2012 linked to…

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New America, ConsenSys, and SHINE Awarded Federal Grant to Build Blockchain-Powered System to Track Health and Well-being of Factory Workers

Solution will be piloted with garment factory workers in Mexico in 2019 and 2020. Represents $800,000 collaboration supported by State Department, Levi Strauss Foundation, and ConsenSys. DAVOS, Switzerland – New America, ConsenSys, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health launched a two-year collaborative endeavor to develop a blockchain-based worker well-being system based on Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE) Health and…

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