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Courageous Medicine for The Climate Health Crisis: Activating the Medical Community on ClimateAuthor: Ashley McClure, MD
The podcast for doctors, nurses and medical professionals organizing to strengthen the climate movement in order to protect everyone's health. Learn from healthcare advocates who are taking their oath to do no harm as a call to action to lead our communities in solving the climate crisis, while improving health equity. The show is co-produced by Angela Geronimo who is a premed UCSD alumnus with a background in Biology and Linguistics. Angela shares her diverse background and passion for educating the medical community about the need for climate action to protect health. Language: en Genres: Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Dr Sheri Weiser: Empowering Others, Harnessing Brilliance, & Combatting Inaction
Episode 1
Wednesday, 4 August, 2021
“When the public links climate change with their own health, they’re much more likely to take action” Dr. Sheri Weiser is a professor of medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF, works at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and is a researcher for how extreme weather drives food insecurity and poor health outcomes. She is also involved in educational initiatives in the UC system to infuse themes of climate change and sustainability into health professional education, co-launching a UC wide center on Climate Health and Equity. Dr. Weiser redefines the role of health professionals, provides advice on how to engage with those who think climate change is not in their lane, and tangible ways to harness brilliance to combat harmful inaction. Check out The University of California Center for Climate, Health, and Equity at: climatehealth.ucsf.edu If you live in California, please join us by visiting www.ClimateHealthNow.org and introduce yourself and become a member by emailing us at: caclimatehealthnow@gmail.com If you live outside California, we recommend you find your state clinicians for climate action group by visiting the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health’s website at: medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/about/affiliates/
