Policy Experience in Environmental

Changes & Health (PEECH) Fellowship

2024 – 2025 Policy Experience in Environmental Changes & Health Fellow

Alfred Glover, DPM, FACFAS

Podiatry | Los Angeles, California

(Photo by Lathan Goumas | Virginia Sea Grant)

About

Alfred L. Glover, DPM, FACFAS, Board-Certified Podiatrist in Foot and Ankle Surgery for 30 years, whose diverse career offers a broad perspective of the profession, has developed integrated ideas about project management across departments and the functional planning of clinical education for Podiatric Surgical Residency programs. He is a past Fellow with the California Healthcare Foundation out of UCSF and has been an advisor for the Fellowship from 2018 to the present. Dr. Glover is a former lieutenant commander in the United States, Navy and he is currently, a deacon at his church, the West Angeles Church of God In Christ in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Glover completed the Climate & Health Equity Fellowship (CHEF), class of 2023. His capstone project included teaching and mentoring students in advocacy on the intersections of climate change, health equity, and climate justice policies. 

Initiatives

  •  Policy and Health Equity education with the Meharry School of Global Health.

  • Strengthening the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s One Health healthcare provider network on heat education through collaboration with the California Healthcare Foundation.

  • Expansion of NOAA’s One Health student network through affiliations with the healthcare student pathway program MiMentor and additional student organizations and universities.

  • Addressing pressing issues in frontline communities within the climate and health intersection utilizing NOAA’s One Health videos and mini-documentaries.

Funders and Partners

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2023 Climate & Health Equity Fellowship Snapshot

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The program has been effective and instrumental in increasing my knowledge on climate change and health equity as well as my ability to advocate for marginalized communities.

– Steven Houser, MD

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Phenomenal program. I recommend all physicians get climate certified.

– Linda Walden, MD

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Growing up in Hawaii, climate change and environmental justice have always been important concerns to me and my family…..The CHEF program gave me the tools, mentorship, and medical community to help me develop my skills in education and advocacy on climate change and health equity.

– Nicole Mahealani Lum, DO

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Excellent fellowship, I really enjoy networking and learning. It (the Fellowship) really cares about black and brown communities and how we can improve their health using climate justice.

– Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD