Center for the Environment and Health Webinars
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.
Studies of Health Effects of the External Exposome in the Nurses' Health Studies
Dr. Jamie Hart discusses research in the longstanding Nurses' Health Studies, with an emphasis on the decades of work studying the environment as a risk factor for chronic disease.
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.
Traffic-related Air Pollution, Effects of Nuclear Weapons and Clinician Advocacy
Drs. Carlos A. Camargo and Joseph Hodgkin cover insights into traffic-related air pollution and childhood health, as well as the medical and humanitarian effects of nuclear weapons.
Connections between Seaweed Farming, Environmental and Public Health
Hear about how seaweeds may hold the key to building a sustainable future for healthy humans and ecosystems under threat by climate change.
Climate Change & Health 2022: A Roadmap for Grassroots Advocacy
A virtual symposium featuring Bill McKibben and Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Lauren Underwood.
Clinical Leaders as Drivers of Sustainability
This session, presented with Health Care Without Harm and GCCHE, explores the climate impact of clinical care and why clinician leadership and research are critical in reducing health care 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.