Meeting of the Consortium Convenes Health Advocates
The Annual Meeting of the Consortium convenes Clinician and Health Professional Advocates from around the country to mobilize solutions to climate change. This year, over 200 advocates came together via Zoom on May 17-19 to learn, strategize, and educate members of Congress. Participants gained from presentations, breakout discussions, and sharing firsthand knowledge of the widespread health harms of climate change worsened this year by COVID-19 against the backdrop of ill health caused by air pollution and other social determinants of health including racism.
The theme of the meeting was Climate Solutions are Health Solutions because the solutions to climate change have short-term and long-term health benefits. This theme was explored during the three-day meeting that included a workshop for state clinician groups and meetings of the Consortium Steering Committee and Board of Advisors on the first day, panel presentations and breakout discussions on the second day, and virtual visits to Congressional Representatives on the third day. The first panel explored the connection between Climate Change, COVID-19, and Equity; the second panel explored policies that address climate change while also benefitting health.
Solving climate change means addressing the health needs of the U.S. population, especially access to clean air, clean water, and access for everyone to the conditions needed to achieve the best possible health.
Welcome to the 2020 Annual Meeting
Mona Sarfaty, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Director, Medical Society Consortium
on Climate & Health
Public engagement in climate change
Edward Maibach, MPH, PhD
Director, Center for Climate Change Communication
Bill Novelli, PhD, Founder, Global Social Enterprise Initiative and Distinguished Professor of the Practice, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Medical Students for a Sustainable Future
Harleen Marwah, MS4, George Washington University Medical School, Student Activist
VIDEO (Harleen Marwah)
YouTube VIDEO (Message from MS4SF)
COVID-19, Climate Change, and Equity
Doris Browne, MD, MPH
Former President of the National Medical Association
Jeremy S. Hoffman, PhD
Chief Scientist
Science Museum of Virginia
Laura Kate Bender
National Assistant Vice President, Healthy Air, American Lung Association
Climate Conscious Communication and Care
Cheryl Holder, MD, Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Medicine, and
Co-Chair Florida State Medical Association
Connecting Environmental Justice to Health
Adrienne Wald, EdD, MBA, RN, MCHES, CNE, Assoc Prof of Nursing, Mercy College, NY; Co-chair Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments Global Climate Change Committee
Building Mental Health for Vulnerable Populations in a Time of Crisis
Annelle Primm, MD, MPH
Psychiatrist
Transporting, Climate Change, Health, & Inequity
Calvin Gladney, JD, President and CEO
Smart Growth America
