2019 Annual Meeting: Good Climate Policy Starts with Health

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Report: Medical Alert!
Climate Change is Harming Our Health

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Climate Change Is Bad for Health—Dr. Ahdoot’s Story

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How our health is harmed by climate change

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Members in Action & Blog

Medical community must sound alarm about climate change’s negative effects on health
Dr Cheryl Holder writes about how we all bear responsibility for making our city, and our world, a healthful place to live and raise our families.
My Patients’ Health Depends on Addressing Climate Change
Medical student Autumn Vogel confronts the future, writing an Op-Ed on how climate change is going to put incredible stress on our already overburdened health system.
Climate change is a health emergency. Let’s act like it.
Dr. Linda Rudolph (Public Health Institute), and Dr. Will Barrett (American Lung Association) write about the California Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity.

Latest News

Statement – Medical Societies respond to proposed revision to Clean Air Act
February 14, 2019 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a hearing on a proposed revision to a rule under the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new fossil fuel-fired power plants.
Statement: Infectious Diseases Society of America Joins Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health
February 5, 2019 – The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health (Consortium) announced today that the Infectious Diseases Society of America has signed on to the Consortium of 23 major medical societies declaring climate change a threat to health.

Upcoming Events & Opportunities

February 28, 2019 – Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Asthma Alley
Join American Lung Association, Allergy & Asthma Network, Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, and GroundTruth Films for a virtual film screening of “Asthma Alley”.
April 6, 2019 : A Symposium – Reducing the Impact of Climate Change on Health: The Role of Health Care Professionals
A symposium to provide health care professionals with an opportunity to engage in robust discussion about ideas for corrective action to improve the lives of people in the face of climate change.
January 2 – June 3, 2019 : edX Harvard Course – The Health Effects of Climate Change
A free 7 week self-paced course. Created with support from the Harvard Global Health Institute, this course will explain how climate change impacts people around the globe, but also how it directly affects you and your life.

Our Mission

The mission of the Consortium is to organize, empower and amplify the voice of America’s doctors to convey how climate change is harming our health and how climate solutions will improve it.