BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:cda861a1e7b048c6252258920258ac8138 CATEGORIES:Webinar SUMMARY:Catalyzing Climate Change Content in Health Professions Education DESCRIPTION:
Description
As a leading public health concern o f the 21st century, climate change will continue to affect global populatio n health. Health professionals and health professions educators have import ant and unique roles in proactively addressing climate change and its impli cations. To try and create a healthier, climate-resilient future, schools a nd programs that train health professions students should integrate climate change and its health effects into the curricula.
Webinar participan ts will hear models and resources that can be used to help institutions int egrate climate-health content into health professions curricula.
Spea kers include:
Objectives
To register
Speakers
Directo
r, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
Associate Profess
or, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public H
ealth
Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Colum
bia University
Cecilia Sorensen, MD is the Director of the Global Con sortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, Associate P rofessor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia Irving Medical Center and Associ ate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Sorensen received her Doctor of Medicine f rom Drexel University College of Medicine and completed a four-year emergen cy medicine residency at Denver Health. Following residency training, she c ompleted a 2-year fellowship in climate change and human health policy with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Her work focuses on the intersection of climate change and health and how poli cy solutions, clinical action and education can build resilience in vulnera ble communities. She currently serves on the working group for the National Academy of Medicine’s Climate and Human Health Initiative. She was an auth or for the U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment and serves as a technica l advisor for the Lancet Climate and Health U.S. Policy Brief. She is the c o-editor of the textbook Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice.
Teddie M. Potter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FNAP
Clinical Professor/Coo
rdinator, Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership
Director of Planetary Health; Pauline A. Vincent Chair of Public Health<
br />Directorate, Katharine J. Densford International Center for Nursing Le
adership
School of Nursing
University of Minnesota
Dr. Pott er is deeply committed to climate change education including co-founding He alth Professionals for a Healthy Climate, membership in the Alliance of Nur ses for Healthy Environments, and membership on the American Academy of Nur sing Environment and Public Health Expert Panel. She is a member of the Coo rdinating Committee of Columbia University’s Global Consortium on Climate a nd Health Education and a Fellow in the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. She chairs Clinicians for Planetary Health (C4PH) and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Planetary Health Alliance at Harvard.
At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Potter designed and co-teaches an interdisciplinary course titled “The Global Climate Challenge : Creating an Empowered Movement for Change”. In addition, she co-leads a H ealth Sciences initiative titled, “Climate Change and Health: An Interprofe ssional Response”. In 2019, Dr. Potter was appointed the first Director of Planetary Health for the School of Nursing.
In addition, Dr. Potter i s Executive Editor for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies ; a peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal promoting interdisciplinary collaboration as a solution for solving society’s grand challenges.
D
orothy Biberman, MPH, CPH
Director of Global Engagement and E
xecutive Initiatives
Association of Schools and Programs of Public Hea
lth