Health Care Without Harm and the Magee-Women’s Hospital of UPMC present
A Symposium on Climate Change and Health.
"A warmer and more
variable climate threatens to lead to higher levels of some air pollutants,
increase transmission of diseases through unclean water and through
contaminated food, to compromise agricultural production in some of the least
developed countries, and increase the hazards of extreme weather.”
-- World Health
Organization
Presenters:
Terry Collins,
Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry at CMU on "Energy and Sustainability"
Gary Cohen,
President of Health Care Without Harm on “Climate Change and
Health”
Panel
Discusssion:
Phillip R.S. Johnson, the Heinz Endowments Breathe Project
Dr. Noe Copley-Woods, “Physician Practices to Reduce Waste in the Hospital Setting”
Nina
Kaktins, Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, “Nurses Role in
Recognizing, Educating, and Advocating
for Healthy Energy Choices”
8-11:30 a.m. in the Mellon Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, 4400
Fifth Avenue—enter the building at street level off South Bellefield. The
Mellon Institute Auditorium venue is on the second floor and easy to find from
the South Bellefield Avenue entrance.
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