The following message is from APHA’s environmental health team.
APHA has declared 2017 as the Year of Climate Change and Health. This very special kick-off webinar is being hosted by APHA, the Public Health Institute Center for Climate Change and Health, Island Press and Security & Sustainability Forum. During the webinar, you’ll hear from speakers who are engaged in the fight for climate justice and healthy communities, to explore how climate justice is the best strategy to address both climate change and health inequities here in the U.S. and around the world.
Date: February 27th, 2017, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
Moderators:
Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH
Director, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute
Surili Patel, MS
Senior Program Manager, Environmental Health APHA
Speakers:
Jacqui Patterson, MSW, MPH
Director, Environmental and Climate Justice Program, NAACP
Patricia Cochran
Executive Director, Alaska Native Science Center
Renzo Guinto, MD
Healthy Energy Initiative, Health Care Without Harm, SE Asia
Lisa Hoyos
Director, Climate Parents
Amy Vanderwarker
Co-Director, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Please Register here!
Stay involved! Follow the conversation on social media using the hashtags #APHAwebinar and #ClimateChangesHealth. For more information on how climate change impacts health, please visit www.apha.org/climate.
Questions? Contact environment@apha.org.
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