The University received $1 million from HPS Investment Partners and the Kapnick Foundation to fund the Climate Dialogue and Innovation Initiative: Southeast Asia and the World in the Sanford School, and Associate Professor of Medicine Robert Tighe was named to lead the School of Medicine’s research strategy on the impact of the climate crisis on health. The Sanford School’s two-year climate initiative — announced in October — is aimed at developing innovative climate solutions in Southeast Asia, one of the world’s most economically successful, yet climate change-vulnerable regions.