Children’s Health Past Events
“A Discussion of Climate-Informed Pediatric Care”
Rebecca Pass Philipsborn, MD, MPA, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Director of Climate, Health Education and Clinical Partnerships, Emory Resilience and Sustainability Collaboratory
Presented in collaboration with the NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
“The Climate Crisis and Bad Birth Outcomes in the US: What can we do?”
Bruce Bekkar, MD is an OB/GYN physician and full-time climate advocate.
Affiliations: Chair, Public Health Advisory Council of the Climate Action Campaign; Executive Committee of ecoAmerica’s Climate for Health Leadership Circle
Lead author, Association of Air Pollution and Heat Exposure and Preterm Birth, Low Birth Weight and Stillbirth in the US, A Systematic Review, in JAMA Open June 2020
Dr. Bekkar will be introduced by Derek T. Jurus, DO, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, and Associate Director Residency Program, Obstetrics and Gynecology
This event is co-sponsored by NH ACOG, NH Public Health Association, NH Nurse Practitioner Association, NH Nurses Association, NH Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and the NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
“The Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Child Mood and Behavior”
Jennifer L. Barkin, M.S., PhD, Vice Chair & Associate Professor, Community Medicine, Associate Professor, OB/GYN, Director, Academic Health Department, Mercer University School of Medicine
Presented in collaboration with the NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, New Hampshire Psychiatric Society, New Hampshire Psychological Association, New Hampshire Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
“The Impact of Climate on Children’s Health and Approaches to Advocacy”
Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, Interim Director of The Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Presented in collaboration with the NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
“Youth Mental Health & Climate Change: Strategies to Support Coping at the Intersection of Two Crises”
Elizabeth Pinsky is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and pediatrician at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is the Associate Director of the Pediatric Psychiatry Consultation Service, and at Shriner’s Hospital for Children Boston. Her clinical interests focus on the intersection of child mental and physical health, including trauma and fostering resilience in medically ill children. She believes that climate change poses the most urgent threat to children at that intersection of physical and mental health, and that clinicians caring for children must advocate for a rapid and just transition off fossil fuels. She serves as the Associate Director for Advocacy at the MGH Center for Environment and Health and is also a founding member of Climate Code Blue, a Boston-area climate action group for physicians and other health professionals.
Dr Robert Feder, Chair, Behavioral Health Working Group, NH HWCA, and Member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA, will introduce Dr Pinsky and moderate the Q & A.
This event is co-sponsored by Climate Psychiatry Alliance, NAMI New Hampshire, NH Psychological Association, NH Psychiatric Society, NH Public Health Association and NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Children’s Health Resources
“A pediatrician’s guide to climate change-informed primary care”
Rebecca Pass Philipsborn, Julia Cowenhoven, Aparna Bole, Sophie J Balk, and Aaron Bernstein, 2021
“Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health”
The New England Journal of Medicine, Frederica Perera, Dr.P.H., Ph.D., and Kari Nadeau, M.D., Ph.D., 2022
Andrew A Lewandowski , Perry E Sheffield , Samantha Ahdoot , Edward W Maibach, 2021
“Parents’ perspectives about discussing climate change during well-child visits”
Maya Ragavan , Lucy E. Marcil , Rebecca Philipsborn , Arvin Garg, 2021
“Pediatric societies’ declaration on responding to the impact of climate change on children”
Ruth A. Etzel, Jie Ding, Stella M. Gil, David Githanga, Jeffrey Goldhagen, Alok Gupta, Raul Mercer, Salman Mroueh, Shanti Raman, Barbara Rubio, Nicholas J. Spencer, Nathaniel Uchtmann, Tony Waterston, 2021
“The climate crisis is a child rights crisis”
UNICEF, 2021