Climate Change: A Public Health Emergency

The impact of climate change on global health systems and health outcomes necessitates comprehensive action across healthcare decision making, policy formation, governance, structures, and systems. In this episode, Jen, Ryan, and Ollie are joined by Vynamic’s Rosanna Vellacott, to discuss how healthcare systems are grappling with the impacts of climate change and the multi-pronged approach required to address the accompanying public health crisis.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, climate change, public health, mental health, providers

Source Links:

·      Five key links between climate change and health

·      WHO issues urgent call for global climate action to create resilient and sustainable health systems

·      Why climate resilience is key to building the health care organization of the future

·      Valley fever, historically found only in the Southwest, is spreading. It can have devastating consequences.

·      UW study strengthens evidence of link between air pollution and child brain development

·      A Scoping Review of Interventions for the Treatment of Eco-Anxiety

·      Yale Experts Explain Climate Anxiety

·      Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

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Rosanna Vellacott, Manager

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Oliver May, Senior Manager

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector

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Jen Burke, Director 

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