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2:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am Pacific
Please join Physicians for Social Responsibility, Insure Our Future, and other health and environmental advocates to discuss the health impacts of fossil fuels and climate change and why health insurance companies should divest from fossil fuels.
Speakers:
— Barbara Gottlieb, Director of Environment & Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility
— Michael Donnenberg, MD, Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases at Virginia Commonwealth University
— Mary Sweeters, Senior Campaigner, Insure Our Future / The Sunrise Project
The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. – James Baldwin, author of The Fire Next Time
You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones, and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people, and you can’t have disposable people without racism. – Hop Hopkins, The Sierra Club
Too often climate change, systemic racism, and health inequities are seen as siloed and disconnected from one another. This webinar will examine how these important issues and concerns intersect and compound each other—often with devastating consequences for communities of color. We look forward to learning from Hop Hopkins’ experience, expertise, and call for a more holistic and integrative approach to addressing the host of challenges facing Black and Brown people. Our hope is that after viewing this webinar, participants will leave with a renewed sense of urgency and more determination to be strong advocates and allies for hard-hit and marginalized communities.
PARTICIPANTS
Dr. Linda Rae Murray has been a voice for social justice and health as a basic human right for over 50 years. Currently she is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health and she serves on many local and national boards including the Chicago-based Health and Medicine Policy Research Group. She remains passionate about increasing the number of Black and Latino health professionals. Read more.
Lindsay Harper is the Arm in Arm National Core Support Team Coordinator, working to organize communities to ignite a transformational era that ends the climate crisis centering racial and economic justice. She is also the Executive Director of Georgia WAND Education Fund, a grassroots, women-led, multiracial organization bridging the rural/urban divide and advancing environmental and climate justice, addressing outsized militarized spending, and ending systemic violence, especially in relation to the nuclear weapons and nuclear energy industries.
Co-sponsored by Climate Health Now and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Join featured speakers Dean James Curran, Dr. Renee Salas, Surili Patel, and Stacey Abrams in a special discussion of the findings of the Lancet Countdown US Brief and what they mean for the southeastern United States.
“Southeast conversations on the Lancet Countdown: Climate and Health” on Thursday, February 25th, 2021, from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST.
Register today: http://bit.ly/LancetRSVP
Hosted by: Southern Economic Advancement Project (SEAP), Emory Rollins School of Public Health (RSPH), and American Public Health Association (APHA).
Calling all Florida medical students to join PSR Florida for a special Zoom Symposium by Caren Solomon, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Deputy Editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Solomon will discuss the harmful health impacts of the climate crisis, including the connection to COVID-19, how we can educate our patients, solutions to the climate crisis, and the importance of physician advocacy.
We know that coal, oil and fracked gas wreak havoc on our climate, put our health and safety at risk, and target harm on low-income communities of color. Fighting fossil fuel infrastructure is one of the best things we can do for public health. We know that industry is perpetuating racial and environmental injustices that are then magnified further in times of crisis. Join Washington PSR to hear how health is inseparable from climate justice and how these new rules move us closer to protecting communities!
PSR Iowa installation of materials including posters, pamphlets, and assorted resources for more information about related topics: climate and health; climate and infectious disease; climate and clean water, etc.
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APHA and ecoAmerica are partnering to offer the Climate for Health Ambassadors Training Program. Join us for a free, interactive 4-hour training that will cover the links between climate and health, the spectrum of solutions, speaking effectively on the topic, and opportunities to act and advocate.
Upon completion of the full training and signing the Climate for Health Ambassadors Agreement (optional), public health professionals (and students!) will be given Climate for Health Ambassador designation. These leaders will be invited to be listed publicly as trained leaders who are available to present on climate and health.
This is the third session of the series: Now, More Than Ever: Movement Building for Climate, Racial, and Health Justice. There has never been a more critical time for advancing health, equity and social justice while addressing climate change. This session will focus on the synergies between climate and racial justice movements and their promise in improving health, and community-based advocacy and policy initiatives to promote climate and racial justice in California and beyond.
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; Veronica Garibay, MPA; Daniel Lowenstein, MD; Rupa Marya, MD; Amee Raval, MS; Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH; Alvaro S. Sanchez, MUP; Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA