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Climate Clinic
by The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
GCCHE is proud to present Climate Clinic, a brand new podcast that will bring the latest climate and health headlines to you each week. Through four unique podcast streams, we will bring you breaking climate and health headlines, in depth discussions with experts and professionals from situations unfolding around the world, mobilize and share perspectives from the powerful student body and finally, help all health-related professionals to be the change, starting today.
Episodes
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Be the Expert: Episode 20: Going electric for our health
Welcome back to Be the Expert! The article we are bringing to you today was first published in the journal “Science of the total environment”, in February this year, titled, “California's early transition to electric vehicles: Observed health and air quality co-benefits”. Authors were; Erika...
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Code Green: Episode 10: Case Study: Global Infectious Disease & Our Changing Climate
Dr. Terry O’Connor, Dr. Nuzhat Islam, and MD-PhD candidate Douglas Fritz walk with us through their clinical case highlighting the impact of climate change on arboviral infectious disease. Check out their written case (adaptable for medical school curricula) at Climate Resources for Health...
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Code Green: Episode 9: Cleveland Clinic's Integrative Climate-Health Medical Curriculum
In this episode, we speak with medical student James Sullivan from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University about the process of creating an integrated climate-health curriculum at the medical school. If you want to learn more, check out this journal...
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Code Green: Episode 8: Case study: Neurodegenerative Disease, Heat and Air Pollution
In this episode, the Code Green team speak with Dr. Heather Whelan, Kelsey Barter, and Hossein Moein Taghavi about the connections between heat, air pollution, and neurodegenerative disease. Dr. Whelan is a Professor of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, Kelsey is a medical…
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Be the Change: Episode 10: Climate Action Nurses (ft. Dr Aletha Ward)
In Episode 10, Adesh speaks to Dr Aletha Ward (co-Founder of Climate Action Nurses (CAN)), who talks about the organisation's role in enabling rapid healthcare decarbonisation through climate education for nurses in Australia. https://www.climateactionnurses.org/
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Be the Expert: Episode 19: Neurological diseases and climate change
In our latest show, Marc and Adesh discuss the findings from a scoping Review that was published recently in the journal, 'Neurology'. The article was titled "Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Neurologic Health, Disease, and Practice". The authors were Shreya Louis, Alise K. Carlson,...
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Be the Change: Episode 9: Net Zero in Radiation Oncology (ft. Dr Melissa Frick)
In this fascinating episode, tune in to hear from Dr Melissa Frick, who is a chief resident in Radiation Oncology at Stanford University and serves as co-chair on the Greening the Clinics Initiative of the Stanford Healthcare Resident Safety Council. Find out about the exciting initiatives…
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Be the Expert: Episode 18: A Fracking great mess
In Episode 18, Marc and Adesh dive into an article recently published in the Lancet Planetary Health, titled "Hospitalisations for cardiovascular and respiratory disease among older adults living near unconventional natural gas development: a difference-in-differences analysis". The authors were...
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Be the Expert: Episode 17: Asthma and air pollution
In this landmark study published in the Lancet Planetary Health by Altman and team, titled "Associations between outdoor air pollutants and non-viral asthma exacerbations and airway inflammatory responses in children and adolescents living in urban areas in the USA: a retrospective secondary...
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Be the Change: Episode 8: Low carbon Respiratory care (ft. Dr Alex Wilkinson)
In this episode, Adesh speaks with NHS Consultant Dr Alex Wilkinson on the environmental impact from asthma care, and more specifically metered dose inhalers. Dr Wilkinson shares his thoughts on what respiratory medicine needs to be doing in order to move towards zero or low carbon care. Article:...
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Be the Expert: Episode 16: Changes to Malaria-spreading vector
In this episode, Adesh and Marc discuss a recent paper published in the Royal Society Publishing (Biology Letters) by Colin Carlson, Ellen Bannon, Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Shweta Bansal, which was titled "Rapid range shifts in African Anopheles mosquitoes over the last century".…
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Be the Expert: Episode 15: Preterm delivery and climate change
In this new episode, hosts Marc Futernick and Adesh Sundaresan explore how climate change is driving increases in rates of preterm deliveries around the world, using a brilliant Review article recently published by Luis Federico Bátiz, Sebastián E. Illanes, Roberto Romero, María del Valle…
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Be the Expert: Episode 14: Wildfires, air pollution and cancer risk
In Episode 14, our hosts bring you an original article published in the Lancet Planetary Health in May 2022, titled “Long term exposure to wildfires and cancer incidence in Canada: a population-based observational cohort study”. The authors were Jill Korsiak, Lauren Pinault, Tanya Christidis,...
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Be the Change: Episode 7: Biogown
In this episode, we speak to the founders of the world's first ever 100% compostable isolation gown, Jonathan Mustich and John Sharpe. Jonathan and John discuss their new company, Biogown, and the unique product they are taking to markets around the world - which rivals many of the existing…
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Be the Expert: Episode 13: A parched planet (part 2)
In part two of our dive into how droughts affect human health, our hosts bring you an article published in the British Medical Journal (October 2020), titled "Protecting health in dry cities: considerations for policy makers". The authors were Howard Frumkin, Maitreyi Bordia Das, Maya Negev…
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Be the Change: Episode 6: Climate Rx (ft. Dr Stefan Wheat)
In this episode, Adesh talks with trailblazer emergency physician Dr Stefan Wheat. Stefan has recently launched Climate Rx, an innovative tool to help healthcare providers and health professionals educate their patients on the impacts of climate change on their health, ways to protect their…
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Be the Expert: Episode 12: A parched planet (part 1)
In Episode 12, Marc and Adesh delve into a Review published in the Annual Review of Public Health in December 2022, titled "Public Health Implications of Drought in a Climate Change Context: A Critical Review". Learn about how droughts affect our health, from worsening infectious diseases and air...
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Be the Change: Episode 5: Lobbying for regulatory changes (ft. Dr Laurie Houston)
In Episode 5 of Be the Change, Adesh has an insightful conversation with dentist Dr Laurie Houston from Ontario, Canada. Dr Houston shares her experiences with pushing for regulatory changes as well as her thoughts on healthcare waste including micro plastics....
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Be the Expert: Episode 11: Climate change and suicide
In Episode 11, Marc and Adesh talk us through a study from 2020 that was published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, which looked at the association between climate change and suicide, titled "Climate Change and Risk of Completed Suicide", by authors Caroline Dumont, MD, Elizabeth...
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Be the Expert: Episode 10: Child health on a changing planet
In our first episode of 2023, Dr Preeti Jaggi and Adesh explore a Review titled "Climate change and child health: a scoping review and expanded conceptual framework", that was published in the Lancet Planetary Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(20)30274-6 Hosts: Preeti Jaggi, Adesh...
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Be the Expert: Episode 9: No urban legend.. (part 4 - climate change and slum community health in Ghana)
In the final episode of this series on climate, urbanisation and health, Adesh and Marc delve into a recent study published in the Journal of Climate Change and Health (JCCH) titled, "URBANIZATION, CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH VULNERABILITIES IN SLUM COMMUNITIES IN GHANA". DOI:...
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Be the Expert: Episode 8: No urban legend.. (part 3 - nature-based interventions for health)
In part three of this series, our hosts look at an article titled "The impact of greenspace or nature-based interventions on cardiovascular health or cancer-related outcomes: A systematic review of experimental studies". Tune in to learn about how just exercising with a virtual green screen…
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Code Red: Episode 2: Some more Sargassum
In this episode, Kristie Hadley speaks with Dr Norma Patricia Muñoz and Dr Saroj Pachauri, for a deep dive on the health impacts of Sargassum (a type of macroalgae). Hosts: Kristie Hadley, Adesh Sundaresan Guests: Dr Norma Patricia Muñoz, Dr Saroj Pachauri
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Be the Expert: Episode 7: No urban legend.. (part 2 - opportunistic pathogens in the built environment)
In part two of this series, our hosts bring you a Review titled "Climate change and opportunistic pathogens (OPs) in the built environment", published in the Journal of the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors. Learn about how three key OPs are making themselves at home in our premise...
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Be the Expert: Episode 6: No urban legend.. (part 1 - Urban air pollution and heat island effect)
In part one of "No urban legend", Marc and Adesh explore a recently published Review that looks at the health impacts from urban air pollution and the urban heat island effect. This Review, titled “Urban Air Pollution, Urban Heat Island and Human Health: A Review of the Literature”, was published...
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Be the Change: Episode 4: Greening our practices (ft. Dr Todd Sack)
In this episode, we speak with Gastroenterologist Dr Todd Sack, executive Director of the My Green Doctor Foundation. Todd shares with us his decades of experience in the field of climate and health, and introduces us to My Green Doctor - a transformative, efficient, cost-reducing programme...
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Be the Expert: Episode 5: Climate change and mental health
In Episode 5, Marc and Adesh explore two articles published in the Lancet Planetary Health, that look at climate anxiety amongst the global youth, as well as the methodology of studies that assess the links between climate change and mental health outcomes. Articles 1....
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Highlights: October 2022
It has only been 6 weeks since our launch, and Climate Clinic has already heard from some incredible speakers! Hear our bitesize October highlights, featuring Dr Hina Shan, Professor Hugh Montgomery and Professor Raymond Vanholder.
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Be the Change: Episode 3: Viewing Ophthalmology through a new lens (ft. Dr Rengaraj Venkatesh)
In the third episode of Be the Change, we speak with Dr Rengaraj Venkatesh (Chief Medical Officer at Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry), about what makes Aravind a global leader in delivering Sustainable eye care, and the steps that Ophthalmic care units around the world need to be taking in…
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Code Green: Episode 7: Climate Change and Health Equity (with Dr. Gaurab Basu)
For episodes 1-6 of Code Green, please visit their Spotify page here: Code Green: The Climate-Smart Health Professional. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Gaurab Basu about how climate change, at its core, is a health inequity multiplier and a human rights issue. Dr. Basu is a physician and the...
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Be the Change: Episode 2: Moving the needle (ft. Professor Hugh Montgomery)
In the second episode of Be the Change, we hear from Professor Hugh Montgomery (University College London) about the urgency of the climate crisis, and how health professionals across the globe must make the necessary changes over the course of the coming months (and certainly well before 2050...
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Be the Expert: Episode 4: Be careful what you breathe - minimising the health impacts of air pollution
In our fourth episode of Be the Expert, Marc and Adesh bring you a recently published article from the British Medical Journal (BMJ), titled "Reducing the health impacts of ambient air pollution". The World Health Organisation states that over 90% of humans live in regions where air quality is...
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Be the Change: Episode 1: Sustainable Nephrology (ft. Professor Raymond Vanholder)
In our first episode of Be the Change, we hear from Professor Raymond Vanholder (President of the European Kidney Health Alliance) on the exact steps that kidney care needs to take, in order to go green as part of a zero carbon future.
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Be the Expert: Episode 3: Pandora's box of bugs
In this episode, we look at how hundreds of infectious diseases that affect human health, are being driven by climate change, through various pathways - including the thawing of ice! This podcast features a great article published in nature climate change, titled "Over half of known human...
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Be the Expert: Episode 2: A disproportionate impact - the effects of climate change on women's health
In Episode 2, Adesh and Marc explore a paper published in the Journal of Climate change and Health, which focused on the impact that climate drivers are having on women's health in the US. This Review included some great original articles, which you will hear further details about in this…
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Code Red: Episode 1: "a monsoon on steroids"
Our first episode takes us to Pakistan, where you will hear about the impacts of the unrelenting monsoon rainfall and subsequent flooding, from Dr Hina Shan (Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, National University of Medical Sciences) and Ikram Ullah (a community member whose...
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Be the Expert: Episode 1: Hot, hotter, hottest
IT’S LAUNCH WEEK for our new podcast, “Climate Clinic” – bringing you breaking climate and health headlines in “Be the Expert”. In Episode 1 of “Be the Expert”, our hosts Adesh Sundaresan and Marc Futernick will dive into a Review article from the New England Journal of Medicine Catalyst on how...
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Climate Clinic - Launch
GCCHE is proud to present Climate Clinic, a brand new podcast that will bring the latest climate and health headlines to you each week. Through four unique podcast streams, we will bring you breaking climate and health headlines, in depth discussions with experts and professionals from situations...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
GCCHE is proud to present Climate Clinic, a brand new podcast that will bring the latest climate and health headlines to you each week. Through four unique podcast streams, we will bring you breaking climate and health headlines, in depth discussions with experts and professionals from situations unfolding around the world, mobilize and share perspectives from the powerful student body and finally, help all health-related professionals to be the change, starting today.
HOSTED BY
The Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
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GCCHE is proud to present Climate Clinic, a brand new podcast that will bring the latest climate and health headlines to you each week. Through four unique podcast streams, we will bring you breaking climate and health headlines, in depth discussions with experts and professionals from situations...
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