🌟Congratulations to the 2024 Emerging Physician Leader Award & Blair and Georgia Sadler Fellowship recipients. 🎉

The Emerging Physician Leader Award is offered by HCWH - US & Canada in collaboration with AAMC.

Meet the recipients ➡️ noharm-uscanada.org/articles/news/…

📢📢Calling all health professionals

For the first time, CMS has proposed collecting, monitoring, assessing, and addressing hospital greenhouse gas emissions.

Please let CMS know you support the TEAM Decarbonization and Resilience Initiative today.
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🌟Calling all health professionals - help end plastic pollution in health care.

Today is the last day to sign the Open Letter from Health Professionals on the Plastics Treaty.

Sign here➡️ bit.ly/Plastics_INC4

The #healthcare sector has a pivotal role in minimizing the impact of #plastics

If you're a health professional, join us in calling for a move away from single-use & toxic plastics, while fostering innovation

Sign the Open Letter on the #PlasticsTreaty : bit.ly/Plastics_INC4

Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are appointing physicians & nurses to serve as medical & clinical directors of sustainability to ensure alignment between sustainability & clinical care. Learn about these positions & view our related resources ➡️ practicegreenhealth.org/topics/fundame…

Thank you Martha Bebinger for raising awareness about the climate impact of inhalers, the need for climate-friendly inhalers & sharing perspectives from Mass General Brigham & Providence physician inhalers experts wbur.org/news/2024/03/1…

🚀 We are thrilled to launch our ambitious Health Care Without Harm U.S. 2024-2026 Strategic Plan. Our sharpened strategy charts a transformative course to a zero-emissions, climate-resilient, and equitable health sector.

🔗 Dive into the details ➡️ noharm-uscanada.org/strategic-plan

Financial investments can comprise a significant % of a health system's total GHG emissions.

The health sector has an opportunity to evaluate its investments, reduce financed emissions & align investments with the sector’s healing mission.

Learn more➡️ noharm.medium.com/investment-emi…

My HCWH - US & Canada colleague Emmie Mediate and I teamed up to explore the nuances of health sector investment emissions & the role of the sector in leading the way to a healthier future with climate-smart investing.

Learn more in our blog ➡️ noharm.medium.com/investment-emi…

Thank you IPC & Vikas Munjal for inviting me to speak about climate & health care and the need for the health care sector to reduce emissions & prepare for climate resilience to protect health The Ohio State University College of Medicine The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

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In this Wisconsin State Journal article, Dr. Anne Getzin, our 2023 Climate & Health Science Policy Fellow & family physician at Advocate Health Care, calls on all of us to collectively take a look at opportunities to accelerate change & face the climate crisis head on. madison.com/opinion/column…

I'm with the majority of physicians & other health professionals who wants hospitals & health systems to take urgent climate action. See thread ⬇️

📢Breaking: Survey finds that doctors and nurses want their employers to take climate action
🔹 80%: addressing climate change is critical to hospital mission
🔹60%: employer's climate policies would impact their decision to apply for a job
Learn more ➡️ commonwealthfund.org/publications/i…

The AAMC has again teamed up with HCWH - US & Canada to offer the Emerging Physician Leader Award to recognize #medstudents , #residents , & #fellows who are leaders in climate and sustainability. Applications accepted through Jan. 29.
Learn more & apply today: cleanmed.org/epl-award-and-…

We knew when we selected Dr. Velicki as a HCWH - US & Canada Emerging Physician Leader (EPL) Award recipient she would go on to to great things!

📢Med students, residents & fellows: Learn more about the EPL award and apply by 1/29 ➡️ cleanmed.org/epl-award-and-… AAMC