Reimagining academic travel in a post-COVID world: Stephen

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Lightning Talk as part of the Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education (chesc.org/cjste/). We have the opportunity to reimagine our relationship with academic and business travel. As healthcare providers and scientists, many of us have committed our careers to helping others and disseminating knowledge. However, the carbon emitted from our air travel in those pursuits is literal fuel for a climate crisis that is affecting our patients and communities at home and abroad. Those with the fewest resources are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In the same stroke, while much of our community is committed to creating a more equitable and just environment for underrepresented minorities (URiM) in medicine and academics, our relationship with travel perpetuates systems of colloquia that have historically excluded physicians and academics who are women, black, and latinex. The Covid-19 pandemic has halted academic travel, forcing many traditionally ‘in-person’ events online. In doing so, it has leveled the playing field for many who would not otherwise have the resources or time for extensive academic travel, and simultaneously fractioned our global carbon emissions. We are working to change the travel culture at our institution in hopes that as goes UC will go the rest of the academic community.

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