Climate Change & Health Symposium 2023: Achieving Planetary Health through Sustainable Action
In this symposium national experts join faculty to develop sustainable strategies to achieve human and planetary health.
Dr. Slutzman is the Director of the Center for the Environment and Health and the Medical Director for Environmental Sustainability at MGH. He holds a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Princeton University, an Intern Engineer certificate from the State of New York, and an MD with distinction in disaster medicine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Prior to a career in medicine, Dr. Slutzman was a consulting environmental engineer, completing projects in a variety of areas within environmental, health, and safety assessment. These included industrial facility audits, commercial and industrial site assessments, environmental life-cycle impact assessments, and disaster management exercises. He has completed work on medicine and nuclear war, suburban flood hydrology, health care cost modeling, and environmental life-cycle assessment of health care processes. His academic focus is on the costs, both financial and environmental, of health care. He is a founding member and chair of the Mass General Brigham Clinician Sustainability Group, a past chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Climate Change and Health Interest Group, on the advisory committee of the Health Care Without Harm Physician Network, and a founding member of the MGH Executive Sustainability Committee.
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The center strives to integrate environmental sustainability into the clinical, research and educational activities of the hospital.
In this symposium national experts join faculty to develop sustainable strategies to achieve human and planetary health.
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has launched a new Center for the Environment and Health aimed at integrating sustainability into all aspects of the MGH mission.
In a recent Grand Rounds webinar event, a panel discussed the adverse impacts of climate change on population health, shared insights into the effectiveness of prevention strategies and discussed how social resilience is important to prepare for extreme weather caused by climate change.
In a recent event hosted by the Center for the Environment and Health, a panel of experts explored the relationship between climate change, environmental degradation and risks to human health and offered strategies to address the climate crisis on an individual, community and organizational level.
Emergency departments of hospitals generate significant amounts of environmentally harmful waste which could be reduced through basic changes to disposal policies and practices, while producing lower operating costs.