Perspectives on Climate Change and Public Health: A Conference
- Tuesday, September 22, 2020
- Online Event
The State Energy & Environmental Impact Center and the Institute for Policy Integrity hosted an online conference on September 22, from 10:00am - 1:00pm ET to explore the serious threat that climate change poses to public health. Experts from around the country discussed climate-related health problems and some of the barriers working against the full consideration of health impacts in climate and environmental policy.
Welcome
Richard Revesz
Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, New York University School of Law
David J. Hayes
Past Executive Director
David J. Hayes was the State Impact Center’s executive director from August 2017 through January 2021, when he left the Center to serve in the Biden administration as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy, a role he filled until late 2022.
Keynote Address
Panel 1
Strengthening the Crosswalk Between Health & Climate and Environmental Policy
Dr. Aaron Bernstein
Interim Director, Climate Health and the Global Environment, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Pediatric Hospitalist, Boston Children’s Hospital
Dr. John Holdren
Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy, Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; former Science Advisor to President Obama and Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, 2008-2016
Gina McCarthy
President and Chief Executive Officer, NRDC; Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Sudip Parikh
Chief Executive Officer and Executive Publisher, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Panel 2
Climate-Related Health Issues
Dr. N. Stuart Harris
Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Wilderness Medicine; Director, MGH Wilderness Medicine Fellowship; Department of Emergency Medicine, MGH; Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Affiliated Faculty, Belfer Center Arctic Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (Panelist and Moderator)
Dr. Kari Nadeau
Director, Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma Research at Stanford University; Director, FARE Center of Excellence at Stanford University; Naddisy Foundation Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Dr. William N. Rom
Research Professor, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Department of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Dr. Linda Walden
Founding/Steering Committee Georgia Clinicians for Climate Action; Immediate Past Region III Chair, National Medical Association (Southeast U.S.); Member, Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health; Past President, Georgia State Medical Association, Inc.; Board of Trustees, National Medical Association; Family Physician