NH Healthy Climate Past Events

Sara Sankowich – Unitil: Sara Sankowich is the Director of Sustainability and Shared Services at Unitil Service Corp where she oversees the development and implementation of the company’s sustainability initiatives and reporting, the vegetation management program, procurement, and the company’s fleet and facilities. She has been working in the utility field for 23 years. Sara has led partnership efforts with NH Businesses for Social Responsibility and the UNH Sustainability institute and has hosted a summer fellow student through their program for the last 5 years. She has worked on Unitil’s clean energy projects and was the Unitil sustainability champion for their new building project in Exeter, which is the first WELL Certified Gold building in New Hampshire.

Hear from Emily Thompson, Director of Operations and Maria Finnegan, Director of Climate and Health Initiative for Caregivers and Kids, present a deep dive on NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action, the ongoing projects, a spotlight on each working group, and more.

During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic many, including the CDC, assumed the primary path of virus transmission was through direct or indirect contact. This led to an over emphasis on cleaning of hands and surfaces. However, the primary transmission path for Covid-19, as well as many other pathogens, is through contaminated indoor air in the form of sub-micron particles. In this webinar participants will learn the science behind how indoor air quality is key to human health and what is required to build a proper defense against airborne pathogens in the healthcare environment.

Paul Bemis is the President of Granite State ASHRAE. Bemis is an expert in building science and has been working in the field of energy efficiency in the built segment for over 30 years. He is a Mechanical Engineer (UNH), Electrical Engineer (NU) and have an MBA(NU). Bemis currently owns a software and consulting company in New Hampshire that is a top supplier of thermal modeling software and services for the Mission Critical Data Center Market.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today. ASHRAE was formed as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers by the merger in 1959 of American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHAE) founded in 1894 and The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE) founded in 1904.

Paul Bemis is the President of Granite State ASHRAE. Bemis is an expert in building science and has been working in the field of energy efficiency in the built segment for over 30 years. He is a Mechanical Engineer (UNH), Electrical Engineer (NU) and have an MBA(NU). Bemis currently owns a software and consulting company in New Hampshire that is a top supplier of thermal modeling software and services for the Mission Critical Data Center Market.

ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a global society advancing human well-being through sustainable technology for the built environment. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, refrigeration and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s built environment today. ASHRAE was formed as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers by the merger in 1959 of American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHAE) founded in 1894 and The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE) founded in 1904.

Paul Friedrichs, MD, Board Chair, NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the Energy Working Group of NH Network: Environment, Energy, Climate.

Edwin Lyman is the Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, DC. He earned a doctorate in physics from Cornell University in 1992. From 1992 to 1995, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies (now the Science and Global Security Program). From 1995 to 2003, he worked for the Nuclear Control Institute. His research focuses on nuclear power safety and security. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (The New Press, 2014). He is the recipient of the 2018 Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society. He also served on a National Academy of Sciences committee examining the fuel cycles of advanced nuclear reactors.

*Note: Correction for Slide 10, the correct values are 11% per Sievert for incidence, 6 percent per Sievert for mortality.

Listen to a panel discussion on Cancer and Climate Change, presented by Katie Lichter, MD, MPH, Resident Physician, Department of Radiology Oncology at UC San Fransisco and Principal Investigator at GreenHealth Lab, as well as Joan H. Schiller, MD, Co-Founder and Chair of the Steering Committee of Oncologists United for Climate and Health (OUCH).

Caitlin Rublee, Vice Chair of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health and 2022-2024 American Board of Emergency Medicine National Academy of Medicine Fellow, introduced our speakers, and moderated the Q&A session.

This webinar is cosponsored by Oncologists United for Climate & Health and GreenHealth Lab.

Dr. Mary Stampone is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches undergraduate courses on weather, climate, and natural hazards. Her research focuses on monitoring and modeling variability and change regional-scale climate with an emphasis on hydroclimatic hazards including drought, flooding, and severe weather. Dr. Stampone also serves the State Climatologist for New Hampshire, providing citizens, educators, and government agencies with weather and climate information in support of environmental management and adaptation activities. She was a co-author of the “Northeast” chapter of the 2018 4th National Climate Assessment and lead author of the most recent state climate assessment for New Hampshire.

Matt Cahillane, MPH, Advisory Board, NH HWCA, introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A session.

Assil Halimi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nuclear Science and Engineering department at MIT and co-president of the American Nuclear Society student section at MIT. His research focuses on nuclear fuel performance, thermal hydraulics and reactor design and safety. Currently, he is involved in assessing high burnup fuels for light water reactors and developing new nuclear reactor and plant designs. He graduated from the University of Lyon, France in Mathematics and Economics 18’ and holds an engineer’s degree (Dipl. Ing.) in Electrical Engineering 20’ from Institut National des Science Appliquées (INSA Lyon) and in Nuclear Engineering 19’ from Institut National des Sciences et Techniques Nucléaires (INSTN-CEA, Paris-Saclay). Before joining the graduate program at MIT, he worked as a Core Physics Engineer at ENGIE, the operator of the Belgian nuclear power plants. In the past, he interned at several organizations in Africa, Europe, and the U.S. working on various technology applications such as: aircraft electric propulsion (Safran Group), Oil and Gas distribution (Sonatrach Group), turbine maintenance (GE Power) and system-design platforms and education (National Instruments).

Deborah Gerson, MD, Board of Directors, NH HWCA introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A session.

Dr. Kaitlyn Morse is the Executive Director and Founder of BeBop Labs, a 501c3 that focuses on gathering information about how climate impacts personal health and disseminates the information. Dr. Morse is also the CEO and founder of VaxSyna a biotechnology company making vaccines produced in plants.

Matt Cahillane, MPH, Advisory Board, NH HWCA, introduced the speaker and moderated the Q&A.

This event is co-sponsored by Tick Free NH.

Kasey Bellegarde, MPH, RN is a nurse and Design Specialist with the Innovation Platform at Ariadne Labs, where she works to address healthcare’s grand challenges with effective solutions that meet people’s needs and improve their lives. When she’s not at her day job, Kasey is a Doctorate of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership student at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, focusing her studies on how we can shift healthcare and other systems towards healthier relationship with the planet. She has been involved in local, national and international climate action and advocacy efforts, including attending the annual UN climate summit, COP 27, as a delegate, and producing a guide inviting nurses to help get carbon out of healthcare. She holds leadership positions as a member of the American Nurses Association Innovations Advisory Committee on Planetary and Global Health as well as a Governing Councilor with the American Public Health Association Public Health Nursing Section. Kasey lives in Massachusetts with her family- hopefully someday successfully convincing them to live on a farm.

Joan Widmer, MS, MSBA, RN, Treasurer, and Interim Executive Director for NH Healthcare Workers for Climate Action introduced our speaker and moderated the Q&A session.

This webinar is co-sponsored by the NH Nurse Practitioner Association.

Andrew Lewandowski is a pediatrician with Group Health Cooperative in Madison, WI. He focuses on clinic-based counseling about climate change and health, recognizing the importance of equitable climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions on human health.

Bob Dewey, MD, Vice Chair, NH HWCA will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q&A session.

This event is cosponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Dr. Kimberly Humphrey, MD MPH, is an emergency medicine specialist from Australia, with expertise focused on the impacts of climate change on health. She is a current Fellow in Climate Change and Human Health at The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights. As a board member for Doctors for the Environment Australia Kimberly has led advocacy, education, and policy development for her peers in the medical community and the general public. She has also played a key role in climate advocacy and policy development for the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, and in the development of climate and health policy for the South Australian Government where she works as a public health medical consultant. Kimberly holds additional postgraduate qualifications in emergency and disaster management, clinical education, health informatics and medical administration. Her current research is focused on the health impacts of climate-related extreme weather events such as heat, fire and flood, and the adaptation of health systems and communities to withstand these events. Joan Widmer, MS, MSBA, RN, Interim Executive Director of NH HWCA will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q&A.

Dr. Margaret “Peg” DiTulio DNP, APRN, MBA has been a primary care family nurse practitioner in her private practice, Rockingham Family Healthcare, for 25 years. For the last 15 years she has also followed her passion evaluating and treating environmentally acquired illnesses through a separate practice, Regenix Healing, LLC. Peg has represented the NH Nurse Practitioner Association on the NH Commission to Study Environmentally Triggered Chronic Illness for the past three years. Prior to this role, she was a founding diplomate and Treasurer for the International Society for Environmentally Acquired Illness for 2 years. Increasing clinician awareness of all sources of environmentally acquired inflammation is a goal of Peg’s. Heavy metal toxicity (e.g lead, arsenic), cyanotoxin from cyanobacteria blooms, chemical contamination from perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and inflammatory illness acquired in genetically susceptible persons from indoor air exposure in water damaged buildings, all have been associated with human health risks.

Jennifer Thompson, DNP, APRN, NP-C, will be introducing our speaker and moderating the Q&A session.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Nurses Association, NH Nurse Practitioner Association, and the NH Public Health Association.

Jonathan Petali, Ph.D., is the toxicologist for the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Service’s Environmental Health Program. Jon supports the program through the evaluation of risks from chemicals found in New Hampshire’s water, soil, air and wildlife. In addition to this work, Jon supports several academic research partnerships that aim to characterize the occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in New Hampshire’s surface waters and aquatic wildlife. Jon holds PhD in Environmental Toxicology from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and conducted research on emerging contaminants in wastewater systems during his postdoc with the University of Nebraska’s College of Engineering. Amy Hudnor, M.S., is the Private Well Coordinator for the NHDES Drinking Water and Groundwater Bureau (DWGB). The Private Well Coordinator is a brand new role at NHDES and focuses on educating and assisting the half million private well users in NH on the importance of testing and treating their water for common contaminants. Amy has been with NHDES for over 7 years, and previously served as an inspector for small public water systems among other roles. She has a Master of Science from the University of Maine and has worked in the environmental science field for nearly 20 years. Karen Craver, M.P.H., serves as the Administrator of the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services’ (NHDES) Environmental Health Program. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Social Work, and a Master’s degree in Public Health. She has 20 years of experience in the field; ranging from her time serving as an AmeriCorps *VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) to public health consulting, to state service as an epidemiologist, and now Administrator of the Environmental Health Program. In addition to managing the Environmental Health Program, Karen serves as the Agency’s Environmental Justice Coordinator, leading a team of dedicated staff from across the agency in promoting the incorporation of environmental justice principles into practice across NHDES programs.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Karly Hampshire is a fourth year medical student at the University of California San Francisco applying to residency in internal medicine. She founded the Planetary Health Report Card Initiative in 2019, and served as the initiative's co-director until this summer, when she pivoted into the role of partnerships chair. Karly is also the Curriculum Chair for Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, a lead of the Climate Resources for Health Education Initiative, a current Switzer fellow, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Decarbonizing the US Health Sector.

Jessinta Palack, medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Medical Society, NH Academy of Family Physicians, NH Public Health Association, NH Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Geisel Chapter of the Medical Students for a Sustainable Future Geisel Chapter, and Dartmouth College’s Climate Health Alliance.

Cecilia Sorensen, MD is the Director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Columbia Irving Medical Center and Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Sorensen received her Doctor of Medicine from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed a four-year emergency medicine residency at Denver Health. Following residency training, she completed a 2-year fellowship in climate change and human health policy with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). Her work focuses on the intersection of climate change and health and how policy solutions, clinical action and education can build resilience in vulnerable communities. She currently serves on the working group for the National Academy of Medicine’s Climate and Human Health Initiative. She was an author for the U.S. Fourth National Climate Assessment and serves as a technical advisor for the Lancet Climate and Health U.S. Policy Brief. She is the co-editor of the textbook Climate Change and Human Health: From Science to Practice.

Seddon Savage, MD, Member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA will introduce Dr. Sorensen and moderate the Q&A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Medical Society and the NH Public Health Association.

Georges C. Benjamin, MD, is a well-known health policy leader, practitioner, and administrator. He currently serves as the executive director of the American Public Health Association, the nation’s oldest and largest organization of public health professionals. He is also a former secretary of health for the state of Maryland.

Dr. Benjamin is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology and the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, a fellow emeritus of the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. At APHA he serves as the publisher for the American Journal of Public Health, the Nation’s Health Newspaper and APHA Press, the associations book company. He serves on several nonprofit boards such as Research!America, the Truth Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund, Ceres, and the Reagan-Udall Foundation. He is also a former member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a council that advises the President on how best to assure the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure.

Dr. Deborah Walker Klein, member of the NH HWCA Advisory Board, Past President, APHA will introduce Dr. Benjamin and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Medical Society and the NH Public Health Association.

Jodi Sherman, MD, is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology of the Yale School of Medicine, Associate Professor of Epidemiology in Environmental Health Sciences, and founding director of the Yale Program on Healthcare Environmental Sustainability in the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health. Dr. Sherman also serves as the Medical Director of Sustainability for Yale-New Haven Health System. Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized researcher in the emerging field of sustainability in clinical care. Her research interest is in life cycle assessment (LCA) of environmental emissions, human health impacts, and economic impacts of drugs, devices, clinical care pathways, and health systems. Her work seeks to establish sustainability metrics, paired with health outcomes and costs, to help guide clinical decision-making, professional behaviors, and organizational management toward more ecologically sustainable practices to improve the quality, safety and value of clinical care and to protect public health. Dr. Sherman routinely collaborates with environmental engineers, epidemiologists, toxicologists, health economists, health administrators, health professionals, and sustainability professionals. Dr. Sherman is a member of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change and was contributing analyst for the UK National Health Service Net Zero Initiative, and serves on the National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative for Decarbonization of the U.S. Health Sector.

Paul Friedrichs, MD, Board Chair, NH HWCA, will introduce Dr. Sherman and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Medical Society and the NH Public Health Association.

Elizabeth Yates, MD, MPH is a general surgery resident and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research addresses the intersection of surgical care delivery, climate change and environmental sustainability.

Deborah Gerson, MD, pathologist practicing in Manchester, NH and member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA will be introducing the speaker and moderating the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Elijah Stommel worked with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients as a clinical neurologist and clinical researcher for the past 30 years, and sees approximately 50 new ALS patients per year. The majority of these patients have no known cause for their terminal diagnosis, which has instilled a great urgency in Dr. Stommel to help better understand the disease. In addition to basic research and epidemiological research in ALS, he has run several investigator initiated clinical trials for ALS here at Dartmouth. Dartmouth has a very busy ALS multidisciplinary clinic, which he helps direct. Dr. Stommel’s group has a biorepository for their ALS patients, which allows them to collect specimens for toxin analysis and genetic data with the intent of evaluating gene/environmental interactions, a long term goal. They have concentrated their work on ALS risk factors to the states of OH, VT, NH and FL as well as nationwide analyses of risk factors using geospatial mapping of all potential toxins/toxicants and the Symphony Integrated Dataverse® (IDV®) database (cohort with ~26,000 ALS cases) at the zip3 level. Together, their epidemiological research has helped establish risk factors for ALS. They have been particularly interested in cyanobacterial toxins and toxic metals. They have spent the last 13 years or more investigating environmental risk factors for ALS.

Robert McLellan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will introduce Dr Stommel and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by The ALS Association, New England, NH Public Health Association and NH Medical Society.

Dr. Vijay Limaye, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is a climate and health scientist in NRDC’s Science Office. As an epidemiologist, he is broadly interested in addressing international environmental health challenges—quantifying, communicating, and reducing the risks associated with climate change—with a focus on the public health burdens of air pollution and extreme heat. At NRDC, he leads economic valuation research and advocacy to understand and address the significant health costs of climate change and he works to defend the science that underpins the Clean Air Act.

Lucy Hodder, Professor of Law and Director of Health Law and Policy Programs for the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, will introduce Dr Limaye and moderate the Q & A segment.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH Medical Society.

Ismail Nabeel, MD, MPH, MS, FACOEM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Having expertise in Internal Medicine, Occupational/Environmental Medicine, and Clinical Informatics, his focus is to bring in cutting-edge innovative perspectives and solutions to enhance the health and wellbeing of people in the working environments. He is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) Dr. Nabeel serves as the Vice Chair of ACOEMs Council on Scientific Affairs. He has been one of the lead authors of 2 guidance papers on Climate change and the practice of occupational medicine. His initial work defined the impact of Climate Change on workers’ health and subsequent work looked at the potential “Mitigation” and ”Adaptation” strategies related to climate change within workplaces. He has also developed and launched the official ACOEM’s Occupational Medicine/Environmental Medicine Podcast ‘OccPod’ - Climate Conversations’ a climate Change series looking at the intersection of Climate Change and the practice of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Robert McLellan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will introduce Dr Nabeel and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH Medical Society.

Laura Kate Bender is the National Assistant Vice President, Healthy Air at American Lung Association. Laura Kate has spent nearly a decade working for protections from air pollution and climate change. She currently serves as National Assistant Vice President, Healthy Air at the American Lung Association, where she leads the Healthy Air Campaign, directing advocacy initiatives in Washington, DC; field staff working in multiple states; and coordination of a broad group of national public health and medical organizations.

Richard Hollister, MD, Pulmonologist, Exeter, NH and President, Medical Staff, Exeter Hospital, will introduce Laura Kate Bender and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association, NH Chapter of the American Lung Association, and Breathe NH

Dr. Perkins is a resident physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. She is the founder of Pediatricians for Climate Action, a coalition of Washington state pediatricians working on climate change mitigation through legislative advocacy, medical education and research, and ecosystem restoration. Dr. Perkins is also a AAP Climate Advocate representing Washington state, a leader on the trainee subcommittee for the AAP Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change (COEHCC), and a forest steward for the city of Seattle.

Abby Fleisch, MD, MPH, is a pediatric endocrinologist at Maine Medical Center, environmental health researcher at Maine Medical Center Research Institute, and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Fleisch received her undergraduate and medical degrees from Northwestern University. She completed residency in pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center and fellowship in endocrinology at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Carl Cooley, MD, Chair, Children’s Health Working Group, NH HWCA, and Member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA will introduce Dr. Perkins and Dr. Fleisch and moderate the Q & A. This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH AAP.

Katie Huffling DNP, RN, CNM, FAAN is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and the Executive Director of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE). With ANHE, Dr. Huffling works with nurses and nursing organizations to elevate environmental health issues, such as climate change, toxic chemicals, and sustainability in healthcare, amongst the nursing profession. Dr. Huffling received her DNP in Health Innovation and Leadership from the University of Minnesota. In 2020 she was appointed as a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency Children’s Health Protection Advisory Council. Dr. Huffling was an editor of the environmental health e-textbook “Environmental Health in Nursing” that won the 2017 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year in Environmental Health. She was also the recipient of the 2018 Charlotte Brody Award which recognizes nurses who go beyond everyday nursing endeavors to proactively promote and protect environmental health.

Pam DiNapoli, PhD, RN, Executive Director of the NH Nurses Association, and Member, Board of Directors, NH HWCA, will introduce Dr. Huffling and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH Nurses Association.

Dr. Walter Willett is a physician and epidemiologist and Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard for 25 years. Much of his work has been on the development of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. He has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses’ Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Together, these cohorts that include nearly 300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments are providing the most detailed information on the long-term health consequences of food choices. Dr. Willett has published over 2,000 research papers, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer, and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press. He also has four books for the general public. Dr. Willett is the most cited nutritional scientist internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.

Gary Hirshberg, Co-founder and former CEO, Stonyfield Organic, will introduce Dr. Willett and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association.

Amy Collins, MD, Senior Clinical Advisor for Physician Engagement, Health Care Without Harm

Robert McLellan, MD, Professor of Medicine, Emeritus, Community and Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, will introduce Dr Collins and moderate the Q & A.

This event is co-sponsored by the NH Public Health Association and NH Medical Society.

Bill McKibben, Author, Educator, Activist, and co-founder of 350.org

One of America's most well-known activists, Bill McKibben will join us to talk about his calling, his spirituality, and his new endeavor ThirdAct.org: gathering "Experienced Americans" to "move Washington and Wall Street in the name of a fairer, more sustainable society and planet. We back up the great work of younger people, and we make good trouble of our own."

Bill's 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. He has gone on to write 17 other books, and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and many media outlets. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award (sometimes called the alternative Nobel) and the Gandhi Peace Prize. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. Bill serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

This event is co-sponsored by the Vermont Climate and Health Alliance.