Video Tag Climate for Health

Local Government Taking Climate Action

The effects of climate change on health, infrastructure, and communities continue to grow. Local governments are taking action to build new programs and resources that serve their population...

Urban Heat Islands: A Climate Action Primer

Climate change causes more intense heat waves and in many cities, urban design traps heat disproportionately in communities of color. Dr. Sheetal Khedkar Rao leads a primer on urban heat impacts, their health effects, and what you can do about…

Climate, Crisis Preparedness, and Public Health

Featuring Diana Hamer, Director for Climate and Crisis Preparedness, National Network of Public Health Institutes in conversation with Ben Fulgencio-Turner, Director, Climate for Health. Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves. As we enter Preparedness Month this September...

The Heat is On

Featuring Sergio Rimola, MD FACOG, DC Metro Co-Chair, National Hispanic Medical Association in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica. It’s summertime and the heat is not just uncomfortable, it’s dangerous...

Nurses Leading on Climate Locally

Featuring Janice Hawkins, PhD, RN, CNS-BC, Clinical Associate Professor, Old Dominion University School of Nursing and Sarah Brown Blake, PhD, RN, PHN, Assistant Professor, Chico State School of Nursing in conversation with Bruce Bekkar, MD, Fellow, Climate for Health, ecoAmerica...

Climate Action is Where You Are

Featuring Katherine Catalano, MS, Deputy Director, Center for Climate, Health and Equity, American Public Health Association; Karly Hampshire, Founder and Co-Director, Planetary Health Report Card Initiative; P. Qasimah Boston, DrPH, MPH, Co-Founder, Tallahassee Food Network...

Welcoming 2022 with Climate Optimism

Cecilia Sorensen, M.D., Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education, Columbia University, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine...

From Global to Local: What does Planetary Health mean for me?

Featuring a conversation with Marie Studer, PhD, Senior Program Manager, Planetary Health Alliance, and Melody Wu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) undergraduate and 2020 Planetary Health Campus Ambassador. Just in Q4 of 2021, we saw the launch of the Sao Paulo Declaration on Planetary Health, The...

Climate Action for Women’s Health & Better Birth Outcomes

Featuring a conversation with Santosh Pandipati, MD, Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at O’Connor Hospital and Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment at the University of California San Francisco. We are seeing the impacts of climate change all around us...

How Doctors are Treating Patients by Treating Climate Change

Featuring a conversation with Dr. Eric Balaban is a young physician undergoing formal training in a Climate and Health Policy Fellowship who is uniquely positioned to comment on the role doctors can and should play in treating climate change, and Sarah McWilliam, a medical student...

Live from NEHA’s AEC: Together a Safer and Healthier Tomorrow

Featuring a conversation with Steven Konkel, PhD, MCP, Principal of Konkel and Associates; U.S. Fulbright Professor of Environmental Health & Public Policy and Natasha DeJarnett, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute, Division of Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville...

Disabilities & Disasters: A Path to More Inclusive Climate Solutions

Featuring a conversation with Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate, California Institute of Technology and Freelance Science Writer and Dr. Adriane K. Griffen, Senior Director of Public Health and Leadership, Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD). In a recent article, Krystal Vasquez, PhD Candidate...

Mothers Know Best: Practical Advice for Climate Action

Featuring a conversation with Tracey Holloway, Gaylord Nelson Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Veronica Butcher, Executive Director, Mothers & Others for Clean Air, and LaTisha Harris, Community Organizer, Mothers Out Front. Listen to your mother! The age-old saying...

Health at the Root of Climate Justice

Featuring a conversation with Michelle Mabson, Staff Scientist, Healthy Communities Program, Earthjustice. Our health and our families' health motivate us to act on ambitious and equitable climate solutions. Health is also at the root of climate justice...

Hindsight is 2020: Our Climate & Health Goals for 2021

Featuring a conversation with Cheryl Holder, MD, FACP, Co-Chair, Florida Clinicians for Climate Action and Boris D. Lushniak, MD, MPH, Dean and Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health, Rear Admiral (retired), US Public Health Service...

A Vote for Health is a Vote for Climate

Featuring a conversation with Linda Rudolph MD, MPH, Senior Advisor on Climate, Health and Equity, Public Health Institute and Adrienne Hollis PhD, JD, Senior Climate Justice and Health Scientist at Union of Concerned Scientists. Earlier this year, polling found that climate change was second only to healthcare issues...

Motherhood in a Changing Climate: Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes

Bruce Bekkar, Obstetrician/Gynecologist and Climate Activist Santosh Pandipati, Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and MFM Director at a local hospital in San Jose, CA Nsedu Witherspoon, Executive Director of the Children's Environmental Health Network Climate change has motivated action...