Centered on Sustainability: Every Day is Earth Day at MGH
Jonathan Slutzman, MD, director of the MGH Center for the Environment and Health, discusses sustainability efforts across Massachusetts General Hospital.
VideoNov | 3 | 2023
In the fall of 2022, Brigham and Women’s Hospital partnered with Health Care Without Harm, CommonWealth Kitchen, and Aurora Mills Farm to add a new product to their retail menu -- yellow pea falafel. This falafel has since been featured in their retail cafeteria and is soon to be on the patient menu, increasing the number of plant-based food options and reducing food-related greenhouse gas emissions. The development of this falafel has helped to create a market for farmers to grow yellow peas, a regenerative crop that is grown in between other crop cycles to replenish the soil with nutrients.
This webinar is co-hosted by the Center for the Environment and Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and the MGH Institute of Health Professions (IHP) Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Health.
Gianina Padula, Sustainability and Wellness Manager for Sodexo at Mass General Brigham
John Stoddard, Associate Director of Climate and Food Strategy at Health Care Without Harm & Practice Greenhealth
Sara Williams, Co-Owner at Aurora Mills & Farm
Kevin Doherty, Director of Manufacturing at CommonWealth Kitchen
Jonathan Slutzman, MD, director of the MGH Center for the Environment and Health, discusses sustainability efforts across Massachusetts General Hospital.
In this webinar, Dr. Goldman will describe identifying patients with particular occupational risks due to climate change, and then provide practical participatory guidance, prevention strategies, and potential interventions.
In this presentation Dr. Robert Paarlberg discusses the impact that agriculture has on the climate and human health as well as the potential that regenerative and other farming techniques have to improve these impacts.
This talk will explore the role that human health ‘co-benefits’ can play in decisions about climate mitigation policy.
Dr. Wilkinson discusses some key challenges facing physicians managing chronic respiratory disease in 2023 and how we can reduce the environmental impact of inhaled treatments whilst simultaneously improving the quality of care delivered.
Extreme heat and air pollution are each individually responsible for a range of poor health outcomes. Learn more about the potential health effects of heat and air pollution, who is at risk, and some things you can do to lower your risk.