Operating Through an Existential Crisis: A Surgeon’s View on Climate Change
Dr. Ng-Kamstra explores the profound impact of climate change on surgical practice.
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Climate Change and Injury
A panel of experts from various backgrounds discusses how climate change contributes to injury risk and how to build resilient communities.
Health Care Sustainability: Transforming Clinical Practice in the Face of Climate Change
A panel of sustainability experts discuss the environmental impacts of the health care system and ways to reduce it.
Climate, Health, & Equity: The Case for Collective Action from the Health System
This lecture provides an overview of efforts which address the intersection of climate change and health, with an aim to raise awareness about the immediate threats to patient health and build a proactive path forward for the health sector.
Burning Plastic Waste and Climate Change: Can Implementation Science Fix This Global Problem?
Open burning of plastic waste is practiced widely across the globe and exposures to air pollution from plastic waste is harmful to human health. In this presentation, the effects of plastic waste burning/incineration on global climate change will be discussed by Dr. Lisa M. Thompson.
Burning Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, and Workers: What the Clinician Needs to Know
In this webinar, Dr. Rose Goldman will describe identifying patients with particular occupational risks due to climate change, and then provide practical participatory guidance, prevention strategies, and potential interventions.
Supporting Regenerative Agriculture with Yellow Pea Falafel
A panel of experts discuss the introduction of yellow pea falafel into the Brighan and Women's Hospital kitchen. Yellow peas are a regenerative crop that can help increase plant-based food options and reduce food-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Regenerative Agriculture: Can it Benefit Soil Health, Planetary Health, and Human Health?
Dr. Robert Paarlberg discusses the impact that agriculture has on the climate and human health as well as the potential that regenerative and other farming techniques have to improve these impacts.
grand-rounds-6-21-2023
grand-rounds-6-21-2023. grand-rounds-6-21-2023. This talk will explore the role that human health ‘co-benefits’ can play in decisions about climate mitigation policy. It will discuss the potential for health co-benefits to motivate climate action
grand-rounds-may-17-2023
grand-rounds-may-17-2023. grand-rounds-may-17-2023. How can we reduce the environmental impact of inhaled treatments whilst simultaneously improving the quality of care that we deliver? These are some key challenges facing physicians managing chronic
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