State of the Evidence on Health and Climate: Useful Tools for Communities
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In the second webinar of our Health and Climate Solutions Webinar Series, Dr. Aparna Bole of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Dr. John Balbus with the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences will present on the state of the evidence on health and climate change with a focus on how this evidence applies to and can be used by localities across the U.S. to implement health and climate solutions.
This webinar will include a discussion on how health systems, health practitioners, and community groups can better collaborate to address these intersecting issues of health, equity, and climate change. Environmental justice communities have been on the frontlines doing this work for decades and it is crucial that we center their leadership in these collaborations.
Are you working on climate change or health equity in your community?
Join us to learn more about the evolving impacts of climate change on health and how we can work together to prevent harm and create healthier, more equitable communities.
Aparna Bole, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Community Integration, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital. Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Aparna Bole, MD, FAAP, is Medical Director of Community Integration at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH. She leads efforts to build close partnerships with community organizations and stakeholders to enhance the well-being of patients and families at UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s and MacDonald Women’s Hospitals, and supports innovation in women’s and pediatric primary care delivery. She is particularly interested in the intersection between environmental sustainability and pediatric public health. She serves as chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health, on the board of Healthcare Without Harm (as co-chair), and is a founding advisory council member of the Ohio Clinicians for Climate Action.
John Balbus, MD, MPH
Senior Advisor for Public Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Director, NIEHS-WHO Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
John M. Balbus, M.D., M.P.H. serves as HHS principal to the U.S. Global Change Research Program and also co-chairs working groups on Climate Change and Human Health for the US Global Change Research Program and for the National Institutes of Health. Balbus has served as a lead author on health for the past two US National Climate Assessments as well as the recent GCRP Special Report on the Health Impacts of Climate Change in the United States. Before joining NIEHS, Dr. Balbus was Chief Health Scientist for the non-governmental organization Environmental Defense Fund for seven years. Dr. Balbus received his A.B. degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
