January 24 | NOON-1 P.M.
Armenise Amphitheater
What is the true impact of global warming on human health? HMS and its affiliated hospitals recently signed a joint commitment to extensively decarbonize throughout our local medical community and actively contribute to reversing some of the ill effects of climate change. Aaron Bernstein will discuss how reducing greenhouse gas emissions provides health benefits, improves patient care and is quickly becoming critical to the future of health care.
Presenter
Aaron Bernstein, MD MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Hospitalist, Division of General Pediatrics
Boston Children’s Hospital
Co-Director, Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Assistant Faculty Director, Climate and Health Initiative
Harvard Global Health Institute