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In this episode, we’re going to discuss reconnecting to your climate interests within your career and how to use those passions to advocate within your community. We’ll be talking with Dr. Paul Devine Bottone who is a pediatrician and adolescent health specialist at the CHOP and Penn Student Health. He has a particular interest in the interplays of climate justice and adolescent and young adult health, with focuses on climate anxiety and food sovereignty. Relevant comments and links for episode:
Episode written by Phoebe Cunningham and Elizabeth Whidden, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis.
In this episode we speak to Dr. Carissa Klarich, Dr. Jennifer Robohm, and Dr. Robin Cooper, co-authors of a case emphasizing the connection between climate change, anxiety, and panic disorder. Check out their written case (adaptable for medical school curricula) at Climate Resources for Health Education: https://climatehealthed.org/course/anxiety/. In addition to podcast participants, case development was led by Caellaugh Catley.
Resources mentioned:
Episode written by Phoebe Cunningham and Elizabeth Whidden, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis.
Learn about climate change career paths & advocacy efforts within the field of med ed during this conversation with Dr. Farah Hussain, first-ever Director of Planetary Health Curriculum at the Perelman School of Medicine.
Relevant links mentioned in episode:
- IPCC report https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/2:49
- Lancet countdown on climate & health homepage https://www.thelancet.com/countdown-health-climate
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's venn diagram on climate action https://www.ayanaelizabeth.com/climatevenn
We’re releasing this episode from the archives (recorded in 2021) – an interview between Dr. Lisa Patel and our podcast editor & Brown University student, Liana Haigis.
Dr. Patel is the Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and a Clinical Associate Professor in Pediatrics for Stanford Children's Health. This episode’s conversation covers a lot of ground, including the unique vulnerabilities of pediatric patients to climate change, wildfires & hospital power outages, and community resilience. Dr. Patel discusses key learnings about environmental justice and physician advocacy, her focus areas.
Below are two articles that she highlights in this episode:
- Confronting Carbon Inequality https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/confronting-carbon-inequality
- Reparations as a Public Health Priority – A Strategy for Ending Black-White Health Disparities https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026170
Dr. Terry O’Connor, Dr. Nuzhat Islam, and MD-PhD candidate Douglas Fritz walk with us through their clinical case highlighting the impact of climate change on arboviral infectious disease. Check out their written case (adaptable for medical school curricula) at Climate Resources for Health Education here: https://climatehealthed.org/course/arboviruses/
Dr. O’Connor is an instructor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington and Director of the Diploma in Climate Medicine at the University of Colorado Climate and Health Program. Dr. Islam is a second year internal medicine resident at the University of California in San Diego and a co-founder of the Planetary Health Report Card. Douglas is a second year MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado and one of the vice chairs for Medical Students for a Sustainable Future.
Hosted by Genny Silva
Edited by Liana Haigis
In this episode, we speak with medical student James Sullivan from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University about the process of creating an integrated climate-health curriculum at the medical school.
If you want to learn more, check out this journal article about the Cleveland Clinic’s climate-health curricular design: Climate Change and Medical Education: An Integrative Model (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34432714/)
Episode written by Genny Silva, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Heather Whelan, Kelsey Barter, and Hossein Moein Taghavi about the connections between heat, air pollution, and neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Whelan is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, Kelsey is a medical student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and Hossein is a research assistant at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Whelan, Kelsey, and Hossein wrote this case as part of the Climate Resources for Health Education (CRHE) initiative (Case OSS9.2). Join us as we dive into this patient case!
To learn more about CRHE head over to climatehealthed.org.
Episode written by Genny Silva, Produced by Natasha Sood, and Edited by Liana Haigis
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Gaurab Basu about how climate change, at its core, is a health inequity multiplier and a human rights issue. Dr. Basu is a physician and the founding co-director of the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also an instructor in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Join us as we discuss all of this and more! To learn about Dr. Basu’s initiatives, head over to: Gaurab Basu | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Hosted by Natasha Sood
Written by Natasha Sood & Sarah Hsu
Edited by Liana Haigis
Referenced Resources:
C-CHANGE | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Climate Change Effects On Public Health | Yale School Of Public Health
From February 13-17th, 2021, Winter Storm Uri devastated much of North America with catastrophic wind, ice and snow. Notably impacted was the state of Texas, which experienced widespread power outages, infrastructure damage and essential resource shortages. Guest hosts Cole Martin and Sarah McWilliam, two students from University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School, examine the effects of the storm on community health and medical practice in today’s episode. They’re joined by Dr. Sarah Scott and fellow medical student Girija Hariprasad to share the experiences of medical professionals during this extreme weather event and what we can do to improve our response to similar climate-related events in the future.
Hosted by Cole Martin & Sarah McWilliam
Written by Cole Martin & Sarah McWilliam
Edited by Liana Haigis
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Referenced Resources:
The Disconnect: Power, Politics and the Texas Blackout
Planetary Health Report Card
Racial Justice Report Card
Our special Earth Week episode is produced in collaboration with ecoAmerica and Climate for Health! Listen as Rebecca Rehr leads a conversation with Dr. Cheryl Holder and Dr. Boris Lushniak, where they discuss opportunities to support health professional leadership and center health equity in climate solutions. They’ll also check the rear view mirror for any lessons learned in 2020 and places to build synergies and collaboration.
Hosted by Mattie Boehler-Tatman
Edited by Liana Haigis
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