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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

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Announcements

To ensure health stays at the heart of the conversation during Climate Week NYC, we joined forces with incredible advocates from across our network to create a video that sends a clear message: Ending fossil fuels is a new beginning for health.

 

Share, like, or comment on this video to help spread the word:

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2025 Convention Save the Date-2

On March 1-4, 2025, our organizations are coming together to host the largest event on planetary health/climate and health to date in Washington, DC. By joining forces, we can catalyze faster action to create a sustainable, healthier, and more just world.

 

Stay tuned for more details and registration here. 

Latest News

The disaster no major U.S. city is prepared for

September 13, 2024 | The Washington Post | Niko Kommenda, Shannon Osaka and Simon Ducroquet

Climate Checkup: Our Patients With Disabilities Face Unique Environmental Risks

September 14, 2024 | MedPage Today | Anita Lowe Taylor

He survived the water, but not the flood

September 17, 2024 | NPR | Rebecca Hersher

Experts call for climate and health labels on gas pumps

September 18, 2024 | Gröna Mobilister | Per Östborn

Advocate Voices

Sanjiv Godse quoted in this CTPost article: Sweltering Connecticut summer harms city dwellers most: 'People can't breathe' (9/2/24)

 

Samantha Ahdoot for this commentary in the Richmond Times-Dispatch: In Virginia, pollution is OK as long as it hurts everyone. Are we OK with this? (9/3/24)

 

Lisa Del Buono interviewed for this article in The Ohio Star: Climate Change Classes Should be ‘Mandatory’ in Med School, Doctor Says (9/3/24)

 

Abby Novinska-Lois quoted in this WisPolitics article: Healthy Climate Wisconsin: New ERA Award for Dairyland Power Cooperative will bring cheaper bills, better health, and renewable energy to rural Wisconsin
(9/5/24)

State News

Groups call for different plan for Sheboygan Power Plant

September 24, 2024 | Spectrum News | Nathan Phelps

Helene takes aim at Florida, with huge impacts across Southeast

September 25, 2024 | Axios | Andrew Freedman

New Research

The Impact of Environmental Health Determinants in Surgical Oncology

Journal of Surgical Oncology

 

Air Pollution and Parkinson Disease in a Population-Based Study

JAMA Network Open

 

Health impacts of climate-change related natural disasters on persons with disabilities in developing countries: A literature review

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

 

Governance to enable climate resilient development of healthcare systems – A conceptual overview

The Journal of Climate Change and Health

Resources

Get Out the Vote!

There are less than 40 days until Election Day! We need to make sure the health voice and the voices of our patients are heard this November. Use our suite of resources — now featuring buttons/stickers, posters, and flyers available in English and Spanish — to get ready to vote and empower your patients and colleagues to do the same!

 

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Events & Opportunities

More events happening across our network can be found here.

Registration is now open for the 2024 NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, and Equity! Join this year’s symposium in person or virtually to explore how informatics and AI are being leveraged to tackle climate change. The event will feature presentations on enhancing mitigation, adaptation, and resilience.

 

REGISTER HERE

Webinar: Community Is Medicine: International Transformational Resilience Coalition "Race to Resilience" Initiative

 

As a partner in the U.N. Race to Resilience Campaign, the International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) and its core partners, the Campaign for Trauma-Informed Policy and Practice and Trauma Informed Oregon, are working with over 25 global co-sponsors to organize and "Commission" Transformational Resilience Coordinating Networks (TRCN) worldwide. Learn how you can join the ITRC initiative to build community resilience, promote mental wellness, reduce emissions, and improve local conditions. This webinar will cover how to organize and operate TRCNs in North America and beyond.

 

REGISTER HERE

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2025 Climate and Health Equity Fellowship

Applications close November 1, 2024

This fellowship, launched in 2021 by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health and the National Medical Association, aims to empower physicians from underrepresented groups in medicine to become leaders in climate and health equity.

 

LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE

Call for Submissions: Images Highlighting the Health Implications of Climate Change

 

For “Earth Month” (April 2025), the New England Journal of Medicine Images in Clinical Medicine section will feature images sharing the clinical health impacts of the climate crisis. We invite image submissions that capture the clinical manifestations of climate change. Examples might include – but are not limited to – radiographic images of the effects of smoke inhalation from wildfire exposure, images related to climate-sensitive vector- or water-borne diseases, or images showing the pathophysiologic effects of extreme heat exposure.

 

LEARN MORE HERE

Tree Campus Healthcare Program 

 

The Tree Campus Healthcare program, an initiative of the Arbor Day Foundation, recognizes healthcare institutions committed to improving community wellness through tree planting, education, and engagement. By incorporating green spaces into healthcare settings, the program enhances patient and staff well-being while addressing public health and climate challenges like air quality and urban heat islands.

 

LEARN MORE HERE

The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, 4400 University Drive, MS 6A8, Fairfax, Virginia 22030

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