Join us next Wednesday for our second member meeting of the year! We will be hearing from practitioners and researchers in the field of nature and health and, as always, leave time for networking and connecting with one another. RSVP below!

Funding Opportunity: Utah CTSI Translational Innovation Pilot (TIP) Program

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences’ (NCATS) Clinical & Translational Science Award (CTSA) program seeks to develop and implement innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency, quality, and impact of the process for turning observations in the laboratory, clinic, and community into interventions that improve the health of individuals and communities.

Leveraging CTSA funding, the Utah Clinical & Translational Science Institute (CTSI) will award ~four $30,000 pilots through its Translational Innovation Pilot (TIP) program. In alignment with NCATS, the Utah CTSI’s TIP program will support translational science projects that focus “on understanding a scientific or operational principle underlying a step of the translational process with the goal of developing generalizable principles to accelerate translational research.

New study released utilizing Nature Score and Nature Dose to determine the health benefits of spending time outside.

The article introduces two new technologies - NatureScore™, which quantifies the amount and quality of nature at any location, and NatureDose™, a smartphone app that tracks an individual's weekly exposure to nature-rich areas based on the NatureScores. These tools aim to provide standardized nature exposure metrics to help healthcare providers prescribe optimal nature doses and researchers study the health impacts of nature exposure across populations.