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AUGUST 29, 2024

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Announcements

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. 

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Application Deadline Extended! 2024-2025 Community Health Center Climate Action Incubator

 

Do you want your Community Health Center or FQHC to lead on climate? Apply by September 6, 2024, to join the Community Health Center Climate Action Incubator, which is designed to enhance leadership skills for effective climate action and decarbonization in health centers.

 

LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE

Latest News

U.S. Heat-Related Deaths Jumped 117% Since 1999

August 26, 2024 | MedPage Today | Joyce Friedan

Climate Checkup: We're Missing Opportunities to Help Pregnant Patients Navigate Environmental Threats

August 27, 2024 | MedPage Today | Ruben Alvero

How one Colorado program is training health professionals on the front line of the climate crisis

August 29, 2024 | CPR News | John Daley

Advocate Voices

Neil Vora and Shweta Narayan et al. for this comment in The Lancet: Nature-based solutions are essential for climate and health action (8/12/24)

 

Maddy Kline, Gaurab Basu, Lisa Patel, Cecilia Sorensen, and Stefan Wheat quoted in this JAMA Medical News article: Medical Schools Are Updating Their Curricula as Climate Change Becomes Impossible to Ignore (8/16/24)

 

Neil Vora for this article in the Annals of Internal Medicine: Beyond the Bedside: Pursuing a Nontraditional Career in Medicine (8/20/24)

 

Gaurab Basu interviewed for this CNN Chasing Life podcast episode: ‘A Silent Killer’: Extreme Heat and Your Health (8/20/24)

 

Roxana Chicas interviewed for this NBC News segment: New effort to protect workers who struggle in stifling heat (8/21/24)

 

Rob Byron quoted in this article in Montana Free Press: NorthWestern Energy, Talen to Supreme Court: New EPA rules ‘put an untenable burden on Colstrip’ (8/23/24)

 

Rob and Lori Byron interviewed for this Community Seven Television segment: Our Montana - Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate (8/23/23)

 

Neha Pathak interviewed for this CNN segment: Faith Leaders Uniting to Combat Climate Change (8/26/24)

State News

In Montana, 911 calls reveal hidden impact of heat waves on rural seniors

August 7, 2024 | NPR | Aaron Bolton

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

August 14, 2024 | Inside Climate News | Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Highway Harms: In Virginia Cities, Rising Health Risks From Interstate Traffic

August 16, 2024 | Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO

New Research

Trends of Heat-Related Deaths in the US, 1999-2023

JAMA

 

Climate and Kidney Injury: A Look at the Impact of Meteorological Factors on Kidney Function within Colorado

Weather, Climate, and Society

 

Report: Reproductive Rights in the US Wildfire Crisis

Human Rights Watch

 

Impact of extreme heat and heatwaves on children's health: A scoping review
The Journal of Climate Change and Health 

 

Seasons of smoke and fire: preparing health systems for improved performance before, during, and after wildfires

The Lancet Planetary Health

 

Scoping review for the SAGES EAES joint collaborative on sustainability in surgical practice

Surgical Endoscopy

 

Report: The Second Half Of The Decisive Decade: Potential U.S. Pathways On Climate, Jobs, And Health

Energy Innovation Policy & Technology LLC

Resources

Climate & Health Documentary: Infected Earth

 

Hawaii-based ER doc and climate advocate Darragh O’Carroll has produced a new PBS documentary about climate change and health titled Infected Earth. Health professionals can use this documentary to educate themselves, their patients, and their community about the health impacts of climate change, specifically heat illness and bushfires/wildfires.

 

VIEW IT HERE

How Green Is Your Travel?

 

Most of us love to travel. But travel’s “dark side“ is its environmental cost: the carbon dioxide and other pollutants created from the fossil fuels burned for travel by air, land, or sea. The Green Travel Guide from My Green Doctor offers ways to calculate and reduce your travel carbon footprint.

 

My Green Doctor is a free money-saving membership benefit provided through the Medical Society Consortium on Climate Change & Health. Use the discount code MGDMSCCCH when you register to get free access!

 

READ THE GUIDE HERE

Events & Opportunities

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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

Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health and St. Luke's Lecture Series
September 11 - December 11, 2024 

 

St. Luke’s and Idaho Clinicians for Climate and Health continue their lecture series addressing health and climate change. All sessions are free and open to the public both virtually and through in-person attendance.

 

Upcoming Session: September 11 Sustainable Hospital Designs and Green Bonds

 

REGISTER HERE

MiCCA's 1st Annual Climate Health & Environmental Justice Conference
November 2, 2024 | Detroit, MI

 

This will be MiCCA's first live, in-person event, and it promises to be an inspiring and impactful day. Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Abdul El-Sayed and other experts, this event will explore climate change, environmental justice, and health disparities. Enjoy breakout workshops and a special environmental bus tour of Detroit. 

 

REGISTER HERE

Save the Date! Climate Change, Health, and Equity: 
The Role of Informatics and AI
November 9, 2024 | San Francisco, CA

 

The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and the Climate, Health, and Informatics Working Group of the American Medical Informatics Association are partnering with the NorCal Symposium on Climate, Health, and Equity for a meeting on climate, health, and AI.

 

LEARN MORE HERE

Celebrate Children’s Environmental Health Day
October 10, 2024

 

We’re preparing to raise the visibility of children’s health issues, celebrate successes in the field, share exciting new initiatives, and discuss new challenges and the road ahead, and we hope you’ll join us! From virtual educational panels and online film screenings to organized hikes and letter-writing campaigns, there are many ways to celebrate children’s environmental health wins and take action.

 

LEARN MORE HERE

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

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