Center for the Environment and Health Webinars
Burning Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, & Workers: What Clinicians Needs to Know
Dr. Rose Goldman discusses how clinicians can help patients impacted by a changing climate.
Supporting Regenerative Agriculture with Yellow Pea Falafel
A panel of experts discuss the introduction of yellow pea falafel into the Brigham and Women's Hospital kitchen. Yellow peas are a regenerative crop.
Regenerative Agriculture
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.
2023 Symposium: Achieving Human & Planetary Health through Sustainability Action
National experts and faculty from MGH and Brigham and Women's Hospital discuss sustainable strategies to achieve human and planetary health.
The Role of Health (Co)Benefits in Climate Mitigation Policy
Dr. Scovronick discusses the potential for health co-benefits to motivate climate action and simultaneously improve public health, as well as their limitations in doing so.
Environmental impact of inhaled medications
In this presentation, 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.
Limiting global warming to 1.5 - 2.0◦ C: A necessary and unique role for health
Dr. Ed Maibach makes the case that climate change and its underlying major cause, burning fossil fuels, are the world’s #1 public health threat.
Climate Smart Health Care: The Next Frontier for Health Professionals
Shanda Demorest discusses how health professionals can engage in climate mitigation, resilience, and leadership
Training the Health Professional Workforce for 1.5 Degrees and Beyond
Dr. Cecilia Sorensen address: the essential climate-related skills and knowledge that health practitioners must possess, how novel curricula and education approaches can be created to bridge this gap,
Housing, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice
Dr. Jonathan Levy gives an overview of the multiple connections between housing and climate change, considering exposure disparities and complex tradeoffs that occur in a warming climate.
Climate Change: What Role for Clinical Medicine?
In the anticipation of how climate change will affect humans and ecosystems in the future, Dr. Daniel Schrag will discuss a path forward.
Blum Center Program: Climate Change and Health Series
Barbara Belanger, DNP, RN, CNOR, gives an overview of the impacts of waste on our climate-changing environment and health.
Reusable vs. Disposable Devices: Infection Control or Planetary Health?
Dr. Jodi Sherman explores misguided notions about single-use disposable medical devices, which have resulted in increased health care expenditures, waste, pollution, and associated health damages.
Climate Change and Disasters: What the Healthcare System Needs to Do Differently
Dr. Paul Biddinger discusses how the healthcare system needs to change how it identifies climate-related threats and prepares to preserve its ability to function in the face of future disasters.
Improving Value and Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Healthcare Delivery
Dr. Cassandra Thiel talks about the emerging field of “clinical sustainability” and what it means for healthcare to achieve zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Center for the Environment and Health works with leadership at Mass General to integrate environmental sustainability into the clinical, research and educational activities of the hospital.