Our Next Patient: Planet Earth: Neha Pondicherry

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Lightning Talk as part of the Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education (chesc.org/cjste/). According to the WHO, 24% of ALL global deaths are linked to the environment, which translates to roughly 13.7 million deaths a year, a statistic staggeringly higher than the rates of worldwide death due to cancer, malaria, TB, and cholera combined. As future health providers, disease and death due to environmental health will affect a vast majority of our patients and is an undeniable urgent public health concern. Given the current rate of global warming and slow rate of change in environmental policies, it is crucial to act and advocate now for environmental justice. It is especially important to focus on how environmental changes have affected population health as a whole, but also how it has disproportionally affected marginalized communities. One avenue to advocate for climate change and its impact on health is through implementation of climate change curriculum into medical schools. I think environmental justice curriculum is critical to learn how we can serve as better advocates for the environment and our patients’ health as a result.

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