Today, our advocates are on Capitol Hill to make their trusted voices heard for stronger air quality standards that protect the health of their patients and communities. 🩺🌎 #ClimateHealth2023

Clinicians uniting for patients and communities talking clean energy for health and equity

“One power plant is really a symbol for the national changes that are needed”

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'Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community' is out!
Our multidisciplinary, gender-balanced group from 6 continents proposes a framework to maximize health sector influence on decarbonisation🧵1/8
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Our most recent work is out: 'Climate Mitigation and Adaptation is Cancer Prevention and Control': sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Thank you Caitlin Rublee Kirsten Beyer Sheetal Khedkar Rao, MD and Marium Husain.

Thanks for hosting this fun session! Many more climate docs The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health CU Climate & Health

Only half of hospitals in Sub-Saharan Africa have energy access. This is what we discovered in our 🆕 #PoweringHealthcare joint report with World Health Organization (WHO) World Bank and IRENA .

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#PoweringHealthcare #EnergyAccess #SDG7BeBold
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Lots of The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health and more in the making working to help our patients stay healthy!

#ClimateEmergency

“When I operate, even on children, I see black deposits. There is a sea change in the demography of lung cancer: from smoking, it is moving more and more towards #AirPollution .'- Dr.Arvind Kumar

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#CleanAirForAll

Timed to #HumanRightsDay , The Lancet's special issue: Advancing racial and ethnic equity in science, medicine, and global health hubs.li/Q01tYbx80

LIVE: Clinical guidance, action plans, tip sheets, checklists & more on #ExtremeHeat , #Wildfires , #Hurricanes & #Floods to help community health centers & free clinics better manage care and protect patients from #ClimateChange

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Sheila Watt-Cloutier giving the powerful keynote at RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW CLIMATE on her Inuit community’s experiences and their #RightToBeCold

“The world knows more about the wildlife and the ice of the arctic than it’s people.”

#RHRNClimate

The #RHRNClimate Summit is underway! Thanks to Governor Jared Polis Polis for stopping by CU Boulder 🦬 this morning for this critical event focused on human rights and climate solutions. Complex issues and discussions like these need everyone at the table!

Incredibly grateful to discuss strengthening emergency care systems and disaster preparedness focused on the most vulnerable with colleagues doing tremendous work in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Pakistan, and other LMICs #COP27

The climate crisis is about people first and foremost. So many nations and groups at #COP27 are prioritizing the health of their neighbors, patients, and families. Celebrating people-centered solutions now and next steps to act together for each other. #HealthyEnvironmentForAll

This Health Affairs #Forefront blog post from Dr. Tamarie Macon of UNC Public Health, a former Rutgers University undergrad, provides important insights for talking about, and tackling, negative #health disparities. Read the full piece here: healthaffairs.org/content/forefr…

We're live! World Meteorological Organization and World Health Organization (WHO) have just launched @ClimaHealth - a global knowledge platform for climate and public health. Check it out at climahealth.info and follow ClimaHealth.info for updates.

The United Nations's #COP27 Must Become More Inclusive and Recognize the Human Impact of the #Climate Crisis — With COP27 starting in a few days, two health experts, @caitlinrublee and Nova Tebbe, MPH, reflect on the lessons they learned at COP26.
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⚡ NEW REPORT ⚡

The Lancet Countdown 2022 Report warns that health is at the mercy of fossil fuels.

Read the 2022 assessment of the health impacts of climate change, and the health benefits of climate action: thelancet.com/journals/lance…

#LancetClimate22

Thank you Rep. Jason Crow for joining HAWC, CU Anschutz Medical Campus, CU School of Medicine & CU Climate & Health for a discussion on the health impacts of climate change and the urgent need to address this growing public health crisis.