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:b4ae891f212790435f09112cf2d5717e53 CATEGORIES:Webinar SUMMARY:Strengthening Climate Change Education for the Health Professions DESCRIPTION:
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In June 2022, the World Hea rt Association issued an open letter to universities and all education stakeholders to adva nce action on health and climate change. To prepare health professionals to meet the needs and challenges of the future, educators worldwide are calle d upon to integrate climate change studies into health curricula.
Fac ulty, practitioners, and students are encouraged to register now to learn m ore about educational strategies and resources that can be used to integrat e climate-health content into your programs.
Speakers include:
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Speakers
Cecilia Sorensen
Director, Global Consortium on Climate and Health Educa
tion
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences,
Mailman School of Public Health
Associate Professor, Department of Em
ergency Medicine
Columbia University
Cecilia Sorensen, MD is the Director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Colum bia University, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia Irvin g Medical Center and Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences a t Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Sorensen receiv ed her Doctor of Medicine from Drexel University College of Medicine and co mpleted a four-year emergency medicine residency at Denver Health. Followin g residency training, she completed a 2-year fellowship in climate change a nd human health policy with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Her work focuses on the intersection of climate cha nge and health and how policy solutions, clinical action and education can build resilience in vulnerable communities. She currently serves on the wor king group for the National Academy of Medicine’s Climate and Human Health Initiative. She was an author for the U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessme nt and serves as a technical advisor for the Lancet Climate and Health U.S. Policy Brief. She is the co-editor of the textbook Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice.
Director of the Clinical Sim
ulation Center and Clinical Associate Professor
University of Illinoi
s Champaign-Urbana College of Medicine
Dr. Japhia Jayasingh-Ramkumar is a board-certified internist practicing at McKinley Health Center caring for a diverse student population and Directo r of Simulation Education at the College of Medicine at the University of I llinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC). She is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Ameri can University of Antigua.
She has two decades of experience i n medical education with areas of focus in cross cultural medical education and in the last several years on the enormously important issues of the cl imate, biodiversity and pollution crises. She is actively involved in devel oping medical school curriculum and educating the medical community locally , nationally, and internationally on the topic of Climate Change and its He alth Impacts. She is on the board of directors of the Champaign County Medi cal Society
In the community she has worked in the public schools to educate students about the connection between planetary health and personal health. She is a Master Gardener engaged in education programming through the UIUC Extension Office and developed curriculum for the Community Garden Program at the Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center where she served as co-chair for over a decade. She has also been involved with educating t he community about the importance of biodiversity and especially pollinator s, creating habitats for them resulting in the creation of the UIUC Extensi on Office Pollinator Pocket Program.
The enduring passions in her lif e have been teaching and addressing social and environmental issues in her community. As a member of the Illinois Clinicians for Climate Action, she h opes to combine her passions to shift existing paradigms, reimagine a regen erative future, educate and advocate for change to create a healthy planet for all its inhabitants.
Co-Director for Policy and Advocacy at the MGH Center for th e Environment and Health
Dr. Patrice K. Nicholas completed a B achelor of Science degree in Nursing at Fitchburg State University, and a M aster of Science in Nursing degree and Doctor of Nursing Science degree at Boston University. From 1996-1999, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Har vard T. H. Chan School of Public Health focusing her research on symptom ma nagement in HIV disease and global health and completing a Master of Public Health degree in International Health. In May 2010, Dr. Nicholas received a Doctor of Humane Letters degree Honoris Causa from her alma mater, Fitchb urg State University. In 2007, she was selected as a Fulbright Senior Schol ar at the University of KwaZulu-Natal focusing on adherence to HIV and TB m edications. In 2008, she was inducted as a fellow of the American Academy o f Nursing. Dr. Nicholas is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the School o f Nursing, teaching in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, and was acti vely involved in curriculum redesign of the DNP program.
From 2006- 2 019, Dr. Nicholas served as Director of Global Health and Academic Partners hips at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also co-led the efforts in their successful American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet journey. S he has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, two text s, and many invited and peer-reviewed presentations including several manus cripts on climate change, climate justice and climate-related health conseq uences. Dr. Nicholas serves as director of the MGH Institute of Health Prof ession’s newly launched Center for Climate Change, Climate Justice, and Hea lth.
Dr. Nicholas' scholarship and research efforts have focused on g lobal health issues; HIV symptom management and quality of life; and climat e change, climate justice, and health. She has published research and polic y papers in these areas and been funded as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in So uth Africa at the University of KwaZulu-Nata for a research and teaching aw ard. Most recently, she leads the Center for Climate Change, Climate Justic e, and Health at the MGH Institute of Health.
Alexander J. Travi
s, VMD, PhD
Chair, Department of Public & Ecosystem Health
Director, Cornell University Maste
r of Public Health Program
Prof
essor of Reproductive Biology & Wildlife Conservation, Cornell Universi
ty College of Veterinary Medicine
Senior Faculty Fellow, Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability
Dr. Alex Travis is Professor of Reproductive Biology, Associate Dean of International Programs, and Public Health at the College of Veterinary Medicine, and is founding Director of Cornell’s Master of Public Health pro gram. He takes a broad Planetary Health approach in his research, driven by a passion to advance human health at the population level in ways that pro mote biodiversity conservation.
Dr. Travis explores a diverse set of subjects related to One Health, which is interdisciplinary work that links the health and wellbeing of people, animals, and the environment. His inter ests include animal and human health and fertility as well as efforts to he lp alleviate poverty and hunger in developing countries, work that indirect ly benefits local wildlife.
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