Climate Justice Changes Health: Local, Tribal, Global, and Generational
Join the Island Press Urban Resilience Project on Monday, February 27 for a free webinar on how climate justice can address health inequities.
This year, 2017, is the American Public Health Association’s “Year of Climate Change and Health”. Please join APHA, Center for Climate Change and Health, Island Press and the Security and Sustainability Forum for a very special kick-off webinar on Climate Justice Changes Health: Local, Tribal, Global, and Generational. The webinar panelists are engaged in the fight for climate justice and healthy communities. They are exploring how climate justice is the best strategy to address both climate change and health inequities in the US and around the world.
Moderators include Linda Rudolph, Director of the Climate Change and Public Health Project in the Public Health Institute’s Center for Climate Change and Public Health. Surili Patel, senior program manager for environmental health in the American Public Health Association’s Center for Public Health Policy.
The panelists are Jacqui Patterson, Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program; Renzo Guinto, MD, and past manager of the Healthy Energy Initiative of Health Care Without Harm in Asia; Lisa Hoyos, the Director of Climate Parents; Amy Vanderwarker, Co-Director of the California Environmental Justice Alliance and manager of its Climate Justice program; Patrician Cochran, Executive Director of the Alaska Native Science Commission.
