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Sponsored by New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action.

The mental health impacts of climate change are profoundly felt by those working in healthcare and beyond. People living in historically underserved communities and people of color feel the effects exponentially and have been leading the environmental justice movement for decades. Pittsburgh, CleanMed 2023’s host city, is no exception. Join to hear from two University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) doctors who are exploring the mental health impacts of climate change on healthcare workers and how practices that underpin sustainability can help sustain individuals, drive change, and build hope in communities. The webinar will feature a 15-minute Q&A. Part of the CleanMed webinar series.

Climate Conversations: Pathways to Action is a monthly webinar series from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that aims to convene high-level, cross-cutting, nonpartisan conversations about issues relevant to policy action on climate change. With continued climate change, elements of the Earth system may reach tipping points of abrupt, dramatic change with irreversible consequences, like the rapid collapse of ice sheets or dieback of the Amazon rainforest. Tipping points also exist in human systems; devastation from extreme weather and major stresses on food, energy, and water could accumulate and tilt society into radically new dynamics such as mass migration or major economic shifts. However, tipping points in human systems can also be positive, and stem from rapidly spreading norms, behaviors, and technologies, such as how battery storage could tip the power sector irreversibly towards renewable energy. Join us for a conversation about the tipping points we are approaching, how to prepare for those we may reach, and how to encourage positive social tipping points for action on climate change.

Join national experts and faculty from Massachusetts General Hospital‘s Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice and Health and the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for the Environment and Health, Brigham and Women‘s Hospital to develop sustainable strategies to achieve human and planetary health.

Tuesdays & Thursdays, April 4 - May 5,2023 The goal of this course is to equip federal, regional and local health systems planners, hospital administrators, long-term care/community care professionals, emergency planners, sustainability officers, public health officials, health practitioners and others, with the knowledge and tools needed to prepare for climate change. This includes how to apply best practices to assess health system vulnerabilities and adaptation options, measure and monitor the climate resilience and environmental sustainability of health systems, and undertake health system greening, all while integrating health equity and undertaking broad stakeholder engagement. The course will consist of bi-weekly (Tuesday and Thursday) live-virtual 90-minute sessions, offered in English, Spanish and French through live interpretation. Each session will consist of 40 minutes of “theory/foundation” followed by 1-2 case studies, presenting health authority actions across the Americas. There will be a live question and answer which will be monitored by the program team and questions will be consolidated and addressed to expert lecturers. Resources such as frameworks and suggested readings will be provided to all course participants following each session. Video recordings will be available following each session for asychronous view. Find out more including topics by date: https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/research/global-consortium-climate-and-health-education/pan-american-climate-resilient-health-systems

Sponsored by New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action.

Sponsored by The Million Hearts® Climate Change and Cardiovascular Disease Collaborative (CCC), in partnership with the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE), the CDC National Center for Environmental Health and the Environmental Protection Agency, this session will provide an overview of how the health sector contributes to air pollution and climate change, as well as how healthcare institutions can advance climate-informed patient care, climate mitigation, and community climate resilience. Presenters will also identify tools and resources that can help inform your organization’s climate action.

Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Professions, Climate Change.

Sponsored by New Hampshire Healthcare Workers for Climate Action.

Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions Climate Change.

Registration is now open. Join on May 23-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh at CleanMed 2023 as we connect, share, and build upon solutions for a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable health care sector. CleanMed offers the strategies, tools, and connections to make progress toward your goals. CleanMed draws leading experts as keynote speakers and session leads. Note there is a fee to attend this event.