Drs. Mollie Grow (Pediatrics) and Stefan Wheat (Emergency Medicine) discuss how faculty can get involved in improving climate health. Climate change is the single greatest public health threat of the 21st century and US Healthcare accounts for 8.5% of total US greenhouse gas emissions. The UW School of Medicine offers collaborative opportunities from medical student-led curriculum changes to an annual multi-disciplinary symposium. In every day practice, we can replace single-use PPE with reusable PPE, reduce single-use plastic at events involving food, and reduce use of anesthetic gasses in clinical spaces. Planetary health is human health, and we can all make changes and get involved to reduce our impact.

Below is a list of resources to join in this work.

Links to get involved:
UW Sustainability Action Plan
UW Center for Health and the Global Environment
Funded Climate and Health Research opportunity for WWAMI researchers
Green Seattle
Journal of Graduate Medical Education's Climate Change and GME supplement
Climate Solutions
Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility
Climate Change and Health Bootcamp
Climate Rx

Email Stefan at [email protected] and Mollie at [email protected] for additional opportunities and information.

Read the episode transcript here.

Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/)