Energy, Equity, Housing and Health

E2H2 in the News

Op-Eds

  1. NY Daily News: Diana Hernández (2022) “Heat, Housing and the Horrific Bronx Fire”    
  2. USA TODAY: Diana Hernández (2021) “Heat or eat? America’s poor face an inhumane, impossible choice this winter.”   
  3. City & State New York: Diana Hernández (2021) “How extreme heat is driving a call for policy changes in New York”  
  4. NY Daily News: Diana Hernández (2020) “How the have-nots are coping with coronavirus” 
  5. NY Daily News: Diana Hernández (2015) “Legionnaires’ deaths are just a symptom: Underlying health problems facing South Bronx residents make outbreaks like this one likelier and deadlier”  
  6. Huffington Post: Hernandez, D., & Borges, E. (2015). “NY Battles Legionnaires': Poverty Wins War”  

Profile Highlights

  1. Columbia Faculty page  
  2. Statnews (2015) “Diana Hernández: Promoting better health through better housing” 
  3. WNYC (NPR-NYC) (2016) “Returning to Mott Haven and the South Bronx” 

Expert Opinion

  1. Washington Post (2022) “The U.S. safety net was built for cold winters. Hot summers threaten it.” 

Radio

  1. WNYC (2021) West Farms 10460: The Public Health Toll of Coronavirus | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC Studios 
  2. NPR’s Market Place (2021): Cold winter coming while heating fuel prices are multiyear highs  
  3. NPR (2017) Public Health Minute with Bill Latimer, PhD MPH “Energy Insecurity” 
  4. State of opportunity (2016) "Energy insecurity" can have negative health consequences for families in poverty”  

Podcasts

  1. The Big Switch (2022) “Who Gets AC in a Heat Wave” 
  2. Agents of Change (2022) “Diana Hernandez on housing and health” 
  3. Carbon Copy (2022) “Deadly Bronx fires reveal America’s energy insecurity crisis”  
  4. Elevate Energy (2021), Climate Change Makers Series, Diana Hernández  
  5. Columbia Public Health Now Podcast. “The Invisible Toll of the Pandemic” Episode 5.  
  6. PBS Frontline (2020) “Covering Coronavirus: Life & Death in the Bronx”