Perelman School of Medicine Journal Club: Climate and Medicine

Wednesday
September 22, 2021
7:30pm - 8:30pm
Zoom
Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperatures Increases...

Join faculty from the Perelman School of Medicine in a “book club”-style discussion of two passages:

"Public Service for Public Health", by Gina McCarthy, the first White House National Climate Advisor under U.S. President Joe Biden (Excerpted from the official Penn Climate Week book, All We Can Save)

e-Copies of All We Can Save are available to the Penn community through Penn Libraries.

Journal Article: “Call for Emergency Action to Limit Global Temperature Increases, Restore Biodiversity, and Protect Health” (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2113200)

Co-published in September 2021 by more than 200 medical journals.

Open to the public.


Discussion facilitated by:

Misha Rosenbach, MD, Associate Professor of Dermatology 

Hari Shankar, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care

Farah Hussain, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Hospitalist Medicine