Media Kit
Media Inquiry
For connecting with Consortium leadership and other general inquiries
The Consortium team can help connect reporters with a number of experts on health and climate change. To speak with an expert from the Consortium team or to find additional experts, please reach out to consortiummedia@burness.com.
Health & Climate Rapid Response Media Team
The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health hosts the Health & Climate Rapid Response Media Team, a team of media-trained doctors and health professionals based around the United States who can speak about how climate change impacts their patients’ health and actions that can improve health and address climate change.
These doctors are available on short notice to help journalists and their audiences understand the connections between climate change and the ways it harms their health—and the importance of solutions that address both. To be connected with a member of the Rapid Response Media Team, please contact Anna Chen at consortiummedia@burness.com.
Climate Communications Champions
Along with its partner Burness, the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health led a training series to help health professionals sharpen their communication and advocacy skills. Out of this training emerged a cohort of diverse, knowledgeable health voices ready to engage with the media and convey the importance of addressing climate change with equitable, health-focused solutions. To be connected with any of the climate communications champions below, please contact consortiummedia@burness.com.
Juan Aguilera, MD, PhD, MPH
El Paso, Texas
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
Silvana Barbosa
Washington, DC
Grassroots Program Administrator
Manijeh Berenji MD MPH QME FACOEM FACPM
Long Beach, California
Clinical Assistant Professor, UC Irvine Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Chief of Occupational Health, VA Long Beach Healthcare System; Lead Environmental Health clinician, VA Long Beach Healthcare System; Lead of Community and Academic Partnerships, University of California Center for Climate Health and Equity
Linnea Bond
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Health Educator, Physicians for Social Responsibility PA
Julie Bradley
Providence, Rhode Island
Executive Director, Hayward Institute
D.S. Chakravarthi, MPhil, PhD
Andhra Pradesh, India
Healthcare Professional
Ann-Christine Duhaime, MD
Boston, Massachusetts
Professor of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Aviva Gans, MS, MPT
New Jersey
Pediatric Physical Therapist, Consultant/Health and Environmental Health Writer
Katie Lichter, MD, MPH
San Fransisco, California
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center – GreenHealth Lab; Research Fellow, Health & Human Services (HHS) Office of The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE)
Margaret M. Quinn, ScD, CIH
Lowell, Massachusetts
Professor Emeritus and Director, Safe Home Care Project Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and Department of Public Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Laura Carter Robinson, Psy.D.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Clinical Psychologist, Humanity&Planet
Carrie S. Shaver, DHA, IHC, FACHE
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Assistant Professor of Health Management, Administration, and Policy
Joseph R Taliercio
New York, New York
Coordinator of Research and Clinical Psychologist at Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants; Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America
Adrienne Taren, MD, PhD
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Leon F. Vinci, DHA, DAAS
Roanoke, Virginia
CEO/President of Health Promotion Consultants
Beth Zigmund, MD
South Burlington, Vermont
Associate Professor of Radiology, University of VT Medical Center, Larner College of Medicine; Director of Lung Cancer Screening, University of VT Medical Center;
Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University of VT Medical Center
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